Memory Studies
http://mss.sagepub.com

Memory Studies responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourses on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era, and examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. Areas of dialogue and debate will include:

* Everyday remembering
* Collective, public, social and shared memory
* Biography and history
* Schema and narrative
* The ethics of remembering and forgetting
* Commemoration and remembrance
* Organic and artificial memory
* Media and mechanisms
* Documentation and archive
* Holocaust memory
* Cosmopolitanism and globalization
* Cultural memory and heritage
* Catastrophe and trauma
* Nation and nostalgia
* Oral history and the culture of the witness
* Memory and the politics of identity