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At: 06/11/2024 5:00pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Astrid Erll,
Jie-Hyun Lim

Writing a New Textbook on Memory Studies, hosted by: Aline Sierp

With the field of Memory Studies maturing, it is being incorporated/making its way into higher education curricula around the world. Although many chunky edited volumes are available that survey new topics and methodological innovations in Memory Studies, there is a surprising lack of textbooks written explicitly for use in the classroom. Routledge thus wants to publish a new textbook that provides a new introduction to the topic that will reflect current thinking and debate. They are looking for a single-authored book that is relatively short (200-250 pages) and clearly pitched to a student audience. It should investigate new currents in the field and cover development world-wide. During this dMSA session, we will brainstorm about the potential structure and content of this new textbook. The aim is to hear from both teachers and students about what they find important, which topics they would include, and which elements would make the textbook valuable and useful for them. Initial thoughts and reflections will be provided by Astrid Erll (University of Frankfurt) and Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University, Seoul). The session will be chaired by Aline Sierp (Maastricht University).

Presenters

Astrid Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe-University Frankfurt. Her research connects literary, cultural, and media studies with questions of collective memory. She has worked on British, South Asian, East and South African, American, and German literatures and media cultures. Astrid Erll is general editor of the book series Studies in Collective Memory (Oxford UP, with J.K. Olick, since 2024) and Media and Cultural Memory (with A. Nünning, De Gruyter, since 2004). She is co-editor of A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies (with A. Nünning, 2010) and Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory (with A. Rigney, 2009). With Ann Rigney, she also edited Audiovisual Memory and the (Re)Making of Europe (Image & Narrative, 2017) and Cultural Memory after the Transnational Turn (Memory Studies, 2018). Astrid Erll is author of Memory in Culture (Palgrave 2011), an introduction to memory studies which was originally published in German as Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen (2005, 3rd ed. 2017) and has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Polish, and Japanese. Her new book Travels in Time. Essays on Collective Memory in Motion will appear in 2024 with Oxford UP. Her most recent publications include “The Hidden Power of Implicit Collective Memory” (MMM, 2022) and “Game-Changing Homeric Memory: Odysseys before and after Joyce” (Textual Practice, 2024).

Jie-Hyun Lim is a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University, Seoul. He has served as Principal Investigator of the research project Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017-2024) and Series Editor of “Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century” and “Entangled Memories in the Global South” at Palgrave/Macmillan, and “Global Easts” at the Central European University Press. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age (Columbia Univ. Press, 2025), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 2024), Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (Columbia Univ. Press, 2022), Mnemonic Solidarity-Global Interventions, co-edited with Eve Rosenhaft (Palgrave, 2021). As a memory activist, he has co-curated exhibitions of “Unwelcome Neighbors,” “Naming Forced Laborers,” and others.

Chair

Aline Sierp is an Associate Professor in European History & Memory Studies and Head of Department of the History Department at Maastricht University (NL). She holds a PhD in Comparative European Politics and History from the University of Siena (IT). Her research interests cover contested histories, memory politics, questions of identity, and European integration. Before joining the University of Maastricht, Aline Sierp worked as a researcher at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (DE), where she was responsible for human rights education in the international office. She has published widely on memory and identity issues. She is the author of History, Memory and Transeuropean Identity: Unifying Divisions (Routledge, 2014 and 2017), co-editor (with C. Karner) of Dividing United Europe: From Crisis to Fragmentation (Routledge, 2019), and of Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (Berghahn, 2020, with J. Wüstenberg). Aline is the co-founder of the Memory Studies Association and the Council of European Studies’ Research Network on Transnational Memory and Identity in Europe.