Berghahn Series
Worlds of Memory
Editors:
Jeffrey Olick, University of Virginia
Aline Sierp, Maastricht University
Jenny Wüstenberg, Nottingham Trent University
Published in collaboration with the Memory Studies Association
This book series publishes innovative and rigorous scholarship in the interdisciplinary and global field of memory studies. Memory studies includes all inquiries into the ways we—both individually and collectively— are shaped by the past. How do we represent the past to ourselves and to others? How do those representations shape our actions and understandings, whether explicitly or unconsciously? The “memory” we study encompasses the near-infinitude of practices and processes humans use to engage with the past, the incredible variety of representations they produce, and the range of individuals and institutions involved in doing so.
Guided by the mandate of the Memory Studies Association to provide a forum for conversations among subfields, regions, and research traditions, Worlds of Memory focuses on cutting-edge research that pushes the boundaries of the field and can provide insights for memory scholars outside of a particular specialization. In the process, it seeks to make memory studies more accessible, diverse, and open to novel approaches.
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Volume 14
The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History
Protestant Memory on the Border
Kenneth Funston and Cillian McGrattan
Published: 2025 -
Volume 13
Microhistories of Memory
Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
Published: 2023 -
Volume 12
De-Commemoration
Removing Statues and Renaming Places
Edited by Sarah Gensburger and Jenny Wüstenberg
Published: 2023 -
Volume 11
Weaponizing the Past
Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland
Kate Korycki
Published: 2023 -
Volume 10
The Right to Memory
History, Media, Law, and Ethics
Edited by Noam Tirosh and Anna Reading
Published: 2023 -
Volume 9
Towards a Collaborative Memory
German Memory Work in a Transnational Context
Sara Jones
Published: 2022 -
Volume 8
Carnivalizing Reconciliation
Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm
Hanna Teichler
Published: 2021 -
Volume 7
Nordic War Stories
World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory
Edited by Marianne Stecher-Hansen
Published: 2021 -
Volume 6
The Struggle for the Past
How We Construct Social Memories
Elizabeth Jelin
Published: 2021
Translated from the Spanish by Wendy Gosselin -
Volume 5
The Mobility of Memory
Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders
Edited by Luisa Passerini, Milica Trakilović, and Gabriele Proglio
Published: 2020 -
Volume 4
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics
Edited by Jenny Wüstenberg and Aline Sierp
Published: 2020 -
Volume 3
Resettlers and Survivors
Bukovina and the Politics of Belonging in West Germany and Israel, 1945–1989
Gaëlle Fisher
Published: 2020 -
Volume 2
Velvet Retro
Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture
Veronika Pehe
Published: 2020 -
Volume 1
When Will We Talk About Hitler?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Alexandra Oeser
Published: 2019
Translated from the French by Katharine Throssell