CONTENTS: Catherine Gilbert/Kate McLoughlin/Niall Munro: Introduction: The Call to Remembrance – Part I: Textual Commemoration – Catherine Gilbert: Introduction: Words Fail Us – Jenny Lewis: Now as Then –Aminatta Forna with Elleke Boehmer: Memoir and Memory – Philippe Sands: The Act of Looking Back – Rachel Seiffert: Daring to Remember – Shea Esterling, Michael John-Hopkins and Christopher Harding: Reflections on International Justice as a Commemorative Process – Daniel O’Gorman: Bearing Witness, Becoming Human: Cultural Memory, «Post-Truth» and the Digital – Jane Potter with Kate McLoughlin: Encountering Commemoration – Robert Eaglestone: My History, Our History – Lyndsey Stonebridge: Sacred Memory/Prosaic History: Rivesaltes Memorial Camp – Harvey Whitehouse: Commemoration, Collective Loss and Social Cohesion – Cherilyn Elston: Open Wounds: Commemorating the Colombian Conflict – Frank Ledwidge: What Is It All About? – Alex Donnelly:
Lacrimae Rerum
: Building a Bridge between Literary and Monumental Commemoration – Adnan al-Sayegh:
Uruk’s Anthem
(Extracts) – Part II: Monumental Commemoration – Niall Munro: Introduction: More than Stone – Finding Ourselves in Our Monuments – Daniel Libeskind: Articulating History: Architecture and Memory – The Very Reverend John Witcombe: From Brokenness to Reconciliation – Cornelia Kulawik with Kate McLoughlin: Reconciliation and a Responsibility to the Past – Gabriel Moshenska: Memorials that Lurk and Pounce – Sue Zatland: Three Poems – Mark Johnston with Alex Donnelly: Community through Creativity: Empowering Veteran Artists – Emma Login: The Paradoxes of Commemoration – Silke Arnold-de Simine with Catherine Gilbert: Commemoration and the Limits of Empathy – Mariah Whelan: Four Poems – Jeremy Treglown: The Knowledge – Charles Gurrey with Niall Munro: A Concretisation of Meaning: Making Memorials – Marita Sturken with Niall Munro: When Is the Focus on Memory Just Too Much? The Challenges of Commemoration and Cultural Memory – Susie Campbell: Memoration – Justine Shaw: The Scent of Commemoration – Johana Wyss: Stones Do Not Forget: Forgetting and Being Forgotten in Czech Silesia – Tony Horwitz: Lose the Dudes, Keep the Horses: On Civil War Monuments in the United States – Part III: Aural Commemoration – Kate McLoughlin: Introduction: Music, Voices, Absence, Silence – Juliana M. Pistorius: Mourning and Music – Jonathan Dove with Kate Kennedy: Music and Memory – Peter Grant: Classical to Dub-Reggae: The First World War and Musical Memory – Dunya Mikhail: Bag of Bones – Rita Phillips: Interviewing as a Commemorative Practice – Annabel Williams: Hearing the Dead – Paul Whitty: Listening to the Past, Sound – Susie Campbell: Hush – John Dunston: Returning from Europe, Reflections on Post-War Commemoration – Patrick Toland: From «Daniel» – Lydia Wilson: Remembering the Lebanese Civil War – Noreen Masud: Monumental Silences – Férdia J. Stone-Davis: Re-valuing Silence – Maggie Ross: The Costliness of Commemoration – Susie Campbell: Traces.
