Writing the History of Memory

Abstract

Introduction - Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and Stefan Berger (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany) 1. Memory and History in the Ancient World - Gordon Shrimpton (Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria, Canada) 2. Memory and History in the Middle Ages - Kimberly Rivers (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA) 3. History-writing and 'Collective Memory' - Mary Fulbrook (UCL, UK) 4. Memory as both Source and Subject of Study: The Transformations of Oral History - Lynn Abrams (University of Glasgow, UK) 5. Generation and Memory: A Critique of the Ethical and Ideological Implications of Generational Narration - Wulf Kansteiner (Binghamton University, USA) 6. Writing the History of National Memory - Stefan Berger and Bill Niven 7. Lieux de memoire - A European Transfer Story - Benoit Majerus (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) 8. On the Memory of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe - Attila Pok (Resarch Centre for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) 9. Holocaust Memoriography and the Impact of Memory on the Historiography of the Holocaust - Peter Carrier (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany) 10. History and Memorialisation - Richard Crownshaw (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)