\u3ci\u3eBody Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees\u3c/i\u3e Book Review

In this book review of Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees, the author reviews the concept of “militarized refugee,” explores “memory” as a research framework, and attempts to connect the author’s memory to the memory of the author of the book. The paper is inspired by her own curiosity about the lives of her father and uncles who were directly involved in the Vietnam War, as well as her experience with the lack of relevancy in the history curriculum throughout her K-12 education

The philosophy of memory today and tomorrow: Editors' introduction

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the chapters making up the book, which are grouped into six sections: challenges and alternatives to the causal theory of memory; activity and passivity in remembering; the affective dimension of memory; memory in groups; memory failures: concepts and ethical implications; and the content and phenomenology of episodic and semantic memory

Menorah Review (No. 44, Fall, 1998)

When Bad Things Happen to Anyone: Venturing East of Uz -- The Meandering Muse -- A New Jewry: Promise or Threat? -- Synagogue and State -- Theology, Justice and Memory After the Holocaust -- Book Listing -- Book Briefing

Memory: A Self-Referential Account

This book offers a philosophical account of memory. Memory is remarkably interesting from a philosophical point of view. Our memories interact with mental states of other types in a characteristic way. They also have some associated feelings that other mental states lack. Our memories are special in terms of their representational capacity too, since we can have memories of objective events, and we can have memories of our own past experiences. Finally, our memories are epistemically special, in that beliefs formed on the basis of our memories are protected from certain errors of misidentification and justified in a way which does not rely on any cognitive capacity other than memory. The aim of the book is to explain these features of memory. It proposes that memories have a particular functional role which involves past perceptual experiences and beliefs about the past and suggests that memories have a particular content as well; they represent themselves as having a certain causal origin. The book then accounts for the feelings associated with our memories as the experience of some of the things that our memories represent; things such as our own past experiences, or the fact the memories originate in those experiences. It also accounts for the special justification for belief afforded by our memories in terms of the content that memories have. The resulting picture is a unified account of several philosophically interesting aspects of memory

History in exile: memory and identity at the borders of the Balkans

The article reviews the book "History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans," by Pamela Ballinger

Memory grids: Forgetting East Berlin in Krass Clement’s Photobook Venten på i går. Auf Gestern warten (2012)

Memory grids: Forgetting East Berlin in Krass Clement’s Photobook Venten på i går. Auf Gestern warten (2012)In the article, I argue that by means of qualities intrinsic to the medium of the photobook, the renowned Danish photographer Krass Clement (b. 1946) constructs a complex narration, which, on the one hand, seeksmeta-refl ection on the relationships between photography, memory, and the perception of reality, and, on the other, explores the post-GDR condition of Berlin and Germany. Venten på i går. Auf Gestern warten (Danish and German for “Waiting for yesterday”) includes both old and contemporary images, in both colour and black-and-white, but the book is neither (n)ostalgic nor documentary. Rather, I insist that Clement’s project epitomizes memory work and that its guiding principle can be understood through Rosalind Krauss’ concept of the grid. Th e grid is here inseparable from photography’s relation to memory and reality. I explore how the dialectics between remembering and forgetting, inherent to photography, is enacted by the book, and how it foregrounds the opaqueness rather than the transparency of the medium and perception. I also present how the universe constructed by Clement unfolds within the three temporal dimensions suggested in the title of the book: a present (post-ideological) suspension between the future and the past

Book review: No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France (Middle Ages)

This article reviews the book “No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France”, by Susan L. Einbinder

Review -- The Palmetto State’s Memory: A History of the South Carolina Department of Archives & History, 1905-1960

A critical review of the book, "The Palmetto State's Memory: A History of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History 1905-1960," by Charles H. Lesser, is presented

Book review – The Pathan Unarmed

Book review of The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the North West Frontier by Mukulika Banerjee from Oxford University Press 2001 238pp. This review is reproduced with permission from Bloomsbury Pakistan (www.bloomsburypakistan.org)