Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany. He is also executive chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, UK. He has published widely on the history of memory, the history of deindustrialization, industrial heritage, the history of social movements and labour movements, the history of historiography, historical theory and the history of nationalism and national identity.

Wulf Kansteiner is Professor of Memory Studies and Historical Theory at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests include the methods and theories of memory studies; the role of visual media—TV, film, digital culture—in the formation of cultural memory; post-narrativist historical theory; and Holocaust history, memory, and historiography. His recent publications include ‘Prime Time Nationalism: Patterns of Prejudice in TV Crime Fiction’ in National Stereotyping, Identity, Politics, European Crises (2021) and ‘Media and Technology,' in The Twentieth Century , vol. 6 of A Cultural History of Memory (2020).