The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies will be the first major reference work in the rapidly developing field of Memory Studies. It will have an ambitious scope and will cover most of the approaches, theories and methods in memory studies. As a “living” online resource, it will promptly respond to shifts and developments in the field and thus be the prime tool to not only fill an important gap in the literature, but present a tool to continually detect and address emerging gaps. It aims at comprehensively presenting relevant concepts, themes and fields, and identifying and creating bridges among them - for example, there are several definitions of the concept of “collective memory” in memory studies depending on the disciplinary field (e.g., psychology and sociology). The encyclopedia entry “collective memory” will make this clear, include the definitions from the relevant fields and propose links among them. It will be a landmark work, concentrating the main approaches and concepts in memory studies across the social sciences, the cognitive sciences and the humanities.
Author Biography:
Lucas M. Bietti is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Previously, he was a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow at the University of Neuchâtel and a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Télécom Paris. He was also a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and held an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany. He received a PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University, Sydney and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. He has edited three special issues in journals in cognitive science (Remembering through conversations. TopiCS in Cognitive Science, 11 (4), pp. 165. Impact Factor: 2.51, with Charles B. Stone as co-editor), history and cultural studies (Remembering in context. Memory Studies, 7 (3), pp. 134. Impact Factor: 1.978, with CharlesB. Stone and William Hirst as co-editors) and linguistics (Coordination, collaboration and cooperation: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Interaction Studies, 16 (3), pp. 220. Impact Factor: 1.150, with Federica Amici as co-editor). In addition, he has published a monograph (Discursive Remembering: Individual and collective remembering as a discursive, cognitive and historical process. Berlin: De Gruyter), and an edited book (Contextualizing human memory: An interdisciplinary approach to how individuals and groups remember their pasts. London: Routledge, with Charles B. Stone as co-editor).
Martin Pogačar is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts’ Institute of Culture and Memory Studies (2008-). He received his PhD from the University of Nova Gorica (2012) and the MA from UCL’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies (2005). He has guest-lectured at the ZRC Postgraduate School and co-runs a course in Media, Memory, and History. His research interests include media memory studies, popular music and memory, social media, memory and post-socialism, history of technology, history of industrialisation and modernisation. His publications include a monograph Media archaeologies, micro-archives and storytelling: re-presencing the past (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); and articles Culture of the past: digital connectivity and dispotentiated futures (Hoskins 2018, Digital memory studies: media pasts in transition, 27–47), Alterations of memory: mediatising the interpretative void in post-Yugoslav Slovenia (Pušnik and Luthar 2020, The media of memory, 133–156); Music and memory: Yugoslav rock in social media. Southeastern Europe, 39(2), 2015, 215–236; Stories, Objects, Interfaces: Digital Technology and Cultural Heritage Among the Young (coauthored: Jasna Fakin Bajecand Matevž Straus) IPSI Transactions on Internet Research, 17(2) 2021, 51–59). Digital heritage: co-historicity andthe multicultural heritage of former Yugoslavia. Two Homelands, 2014, 39, 111–124.
