Memory Studies examines the cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting the way individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget.
Remembering and forgetting through digital trajectories of war
Third fully funded (Home/UK fees) PhD scholarship on my ERC/UKRI Warshare project, University of Edinburgh
sps.ed.ac.uk/study/prospecti…warshare.ed.ac.uk
My new article @memorystudies: “Processing absence: No-body techniques and the impossibility of mourning among relatives of the disappeared in Ayacucho.”
The paper examines how relatives navigate loss, sustain bonds, and pursue truth.
doi.org/10.1177/175069802513…
*Manga studies* is also - thinking about Japanese comics.
"This study examines the role of gakushū manga, or educational Japanese comics, in shaping collective memory narratives of World War II."
doi.org/10.1017/mem.2025.100…
🚨 New Collection Alert!
Memory, Mind & Media presents the Comics, Memory, Activism Collection.
📰 Read the full collection now: cup.org/3K0BH58@andrewhoskins@MMMJournal
Come and join my research team at @EdinburghUni!
Following my ERC Adv/UKRI Award for my project: WARSHARE: Digital Participation in War,
I am now recruiting THREE PhD scholarships beginning Sept 2026!
Full details here:
sps.ed.ac.uk/study/prospecti…
FALL OF LIVING MEMORY:
Forgetting the Atomic Bombings of Japan
Just published in @RUSI_org Journal!
Will AI save or obliterate the past?
Luli van der Does and I draw on @davidrieff's fabulous work on forgetting.
doi.org/10.1080/03071847.202…
Open Call for Abstract Submissions
After Memory: Shifting Perceptions of Time and Temporality in the Digital Condition
Abstract proposals due 15th December
Learn more: cup.org/3KMV2XG
New article form the Comics, Memory, Activism Collection: Reading and writing Italian queerness: Visual genealogies in Nicoz Balboa and Alec Trenta - cup.org/3JXHgke
By Alice Parrinello
#comicstudies#graphicnovels#memoryactivism
Honored to host Professor Andrew Hoskins on @IntelXplosion.
We dive into:
•Memory as a new battleground of war
•AI & digital media rewriting the past
•Epistemic warfare and the collapse of legacy media.
Unmissable insights from a leading voice on AI, war & memory.
open.spotify.com/episode/4S1…
Memory and anxiety: A sociocultural approach - An Introduction to the Special Collection by Nutsa Batiashvili, Meymune Nur Topçu & James V. Wertsch
Read it here: cup.org/3J7U47y#anxiety#memory#specialcollection
Collective Future Thinking at Times of War and Conflict - cup.org/4091nBc
This Special Collection seeks research exploring how people envision the collective future amid war and global conflict, and the societal impact of anticipatory thinking in uncertain times.
Latent and explicit mnemonic communities on social media: studying digital memory formation through hashtag co-occurrence analysis - cup.org/3IMuMLG
By Robbert-Jan Adriaansen
#digitalmemory#hashtags#Instagram