Memory Studies @memorystudies.bsky.social

New article on prophets and AI (with Amanda Lagerkvist and Blazenka Scheuer) cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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/10.1177/175069…

*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.20…

2025 top downloaded article: AI and Memory - cup.org/42EoeGC By @andrewhoskins #generativeAI #HumanAgency #AIAgents #remembering

🚨 New Collection Alert! Memory, Mind & Media presents the Comics, Memory, Activism Collection. 📰 Read the full collection now: cup.org/3K0BH58 @andrewhoskins @MMMJournal

Had a wonderful chat with @andrewhoskins about our new book; the book talk was evidently a trending event @Cornell

One of these PhD scholarships is on remembering and forgetting war

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/10.1080/030718…

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: Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated images of war - cup.org/46EbhgP By Nataliia Laba, Nataliya Roman & John H. Parmelee #generativeAI #AIimages #warrepresentation

Wherever there is AI there is memory: AI as the agency of the (synthesized) past - cup.org/461QoNC By Carl Öhman #AI #generativeAI #philosophy

Read the most downloaded article in August: AI and memory - cup.org/42EoeGC By Andrew Hoskins #generativeAI #humanagency #remembering

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/4S1tsv…

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

Trending Article: Media, technology, and the sins of memory - cup.org/46bpeUR By Daniel L. Schacter #falsememories #media #technology

Imagining the future – rejecting the present: Future thought and defensive discourse strategies in Russian society during wartime - cup.org/44ZF8AF By Maria Kurbak #collectivememory #futurethoughts #defensivestrategies

Great to be here at NATO #RigaStratComDialogue @STRATCOMCOE