Announcement: New Series in the Field of Memory Studies

We wanted to take this opportunity to announce two new series we are thrilled about: Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies In 2021 we have started working on the first volume in this series: Memory Studies in Southeast Asia: A Handbook, and will soon expand to cover more regions to offer a comparative insight in … Read more

Some readings for our times – on monuments, memory and commemoration:

• Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2017) [ebook in library] • Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change, Columbia University Press, 1999 [ebook in library] The following are available via the university library ejournals: Ater, Renée, ‘Slavery and Its … Read more