Memory and the Future

1. Introduction: Memory and the Future: Why a Change of Focus is Necessary
Yifat Gutman, Amy Sodaro, Adam D. Brown

Part I. Memory through Space and Time

2. Changing Temporalities and the Internationalization of Memory Cultures
Daniel Levy

3. Misremembering the Holocaust: Universal Symbol, Nationalist Icon or Moral Kitsch?
Ross Poole

4. Memory and History from Past to Future: A Dialogue with Dori Laub on Trauma and Testimony
Dori Laub, Federico Finchelstein

5. Remembering Yesterday to Protect Tomorrow: The Internationalization of a New Commemorative Paradigm
Louis Bickford, Amy Sodaro

Part II. Forms and Genres

6. The Role of Conversations in Shaping Individual and Collective Memory, Attitudes and Behavior
Jonathan Koppel, William Hirst

7. Re-Presenting Victim and Perpetrator: The Role of Photographs in US Service Members’ Testimony Against War
Kimberly Spring

8. How Shall We Remember Srebrenica? Will the Language of Law Structure Our Memory?
Selma Leydesdorff

Part III. Temporality and the Political I: Utopia

9. Refugees from Utopia: Remembering, Forgetting and the Making of The Feminist Memoir Project
Ann Snitow

10. Happy Memories under the Mushroom Cloud: Utopia and Memory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Lindsey A. Freeman

11. Authorizing Death: Memory Politics and States of Exception in Contemporary El Salvador
Gema Santamaria-Balmaceda

12. Memories of War and Enacting the Future at Yasukuni Shrine, Japan
David P. Janes

13. Afterword
Jeffrey K. Olick

Avainsanat: History, Cultural History, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Sociology of Culture, Human Rights, Social History, Popular Science in Education