Memory in a Global Age

1. Introduction
Aleida Assmann, Sebastian Conrad

Part I. Witnessing in a Global Arena

2. Addressing Painful Memories: Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations
Christopher Daase

3. Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People
Danielle Celermajer, A. Dirk Moses

Part II. Moral Claims and Universal Norms

4. The Past in the Present: Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America
Elizabeth Jelin

5. Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide
Berthold Molden

6. The Holocaust — a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community
Aleida Assmann

Part III. Global Memories and Transnational Identities

7. Globalization, Universalism, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory
Jan Assmann

8. Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability
Jie-Hyun Lim

9. Remembering Asia: History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan
Sebastian Conrad

Part IV. Global Icons and Cultural Symbols

10. Globalizing Memory in a Divided City: Bruce Lee in Mostar
Grace Bolton, Nerina Muzurović

11. ‘Fragments of Reminiscence’: Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory
Ana Sobral

12. Neda — the Career of a Global Icon
Aleida Assmann, Corinna Assmann

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Media Studies, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Social Theory, Sociology, general, Cognitive Psychology