We live in a world of “memory wars.” A world in which there is a constant struggle for the right to remember, for the right to one's history, to one's memories, to one's identity. The guest editor of this issue is art historian and curator Dr. Daiva Price. In Memory as a Journal the curator asks: how do we talk about history when the present is in competition with the past? How can we talk about Second World War when the War in Ukraine is happening now? How should we remember when memory is traumatic? [publisher's note]

 

Table of contents:

Memory in the Shadow of Crumbling Empires - Daiva Price

Memory Against the National Grain - James E. Young

A Week in August - Manca Bajec & Vesta Kroese

‘… Without Being Able to Remember, They Cannot Heal.’ - Linara Dovydaitytė

Drawings - Mindaugas Lukošaitis

‘(1944-1991’) - Indrė Šerpytytė

Balancing History in the Course of Time - Robert van Voren

Remembering so as to Forget - Kotryna Lingienė talks with Mindaugas Lukošaitis

On Traumatic Memory and its Consequenses - Daiva Price talks with Prof. Danutė Gailienė and Robert van Voren

Reverse Memory Engineering by Michael Shubitz - Kotryna Lingienė

Utilising Unprocessed Collective Traumas: Russian Hybrid Warfare Against Georgia - Jana D. Javakhishivili

Drawings - Alevtina Kakhidze

Projects - Jenny Kagan