Memory in a Global Age Discourses, Practices and Trajectories

The authors provide a significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies.

ALEIDA ASSMANN is Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany. She has been Guest Professor at Rice, Princeton, Yale, Chicago and Vienna. Her publications up until now have mostly been in German, and include some of the most important work in Memory Studies of the last decade.
 
SEBASTIAN CONRAD is Professor of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. His research interests include the history of globalization, colonial history, historiography and theory. His recent publications include Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany and Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).