New Publication!

We are delighted to announce the publication of Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization: Doing Memory Studies with Ann Rigney (De Gruyter, 2025) edited by Astrid Erll, Susanne Knittel, and Jenny Wüstenberg.

This book is a liber amicorum as well as an invitation. It honors Ann Rigney’s achievements in chapters written by her students, colleagues, and friends. At the same time, this book is meant as a building block for the future of memory studies: it takes stock of the field’s most important concepts and current developments and sets the research agenda for the coming years.

The volume is arranged in eight sections that are dedicated to eight major research areas of memory studies, all of which were significantly shaped by the work of Ann Rigney. The book begins with the fundamentals of memory studies in debates around history and narrative. It then moves on to questions around the dynamics of memory and its mediatedness, to the life and afterlives of memory, national and transnational memory, materiality, the agency of the aesthetic, and, last but not least, to the memory-activism nexus.

The book was presented to Ann at a symposium on the occasion of her retirement at Utrecht University on December 6, 2024.

The best thing about it is that it is open access!

You can download it here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111439273/html#contents