The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Ann Rigney (University of Utrecht).

Prof Rigney presents a talk entitled 'The Afterlife of Hope: how the killing of demonstrators is remembered’ and we discuss cultural memory in connection with activism and social movements as well as ways of moving away from thinking about the past in terms of trauma.

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Anne Fuchs (University College Dublin).

Prof Fuchs presents a talk entitled ‘When did postwar German memory culture end: from divided memory to a pluralistic memory culture’ and we discuss cultural memory in terms of memory contests and scales of implication.

The guest speaker for this episode is Dr Gyorgy Toth (University of Stirling).

Dr Toth presents a talk entitled ‘Memory, performance, and Native American sovereignty rights’ and we discuss cultural memory and activism in the context of Red Power and the Native American rights struggle. 

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Akiko Hashimoto (Portland State University).

Prof Hashimoto presents a talk entitled ‘Something Dreadful Happened in the Past: War Memories in Japan’ and we discuss the cultural memory of WWII in Japan.

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof John Sutton (Macquarie University).

Prof Sutton presents a talk entitled ‘Distributed Ecologies of Remembering’ and we discuss how things, places and other people are involved when we remember.

The guest speaker for this episode is Dr Leila Kamali (@kamali_leila).

Dr Kamali presents a talk entitled ‘Cultural Memory Past, Present and Future in the work of John Edgar Wideman’ and we discuss the cultural memory of Africa in African American and Black British literature.

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University).

We discuss Holocaust memorials and the question of relevance and Prof Niven presents a talk entitled 'Reigniting Relevance: Recent Approaches to Memorial Heritage’.

Bill Niven is Professor in Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University.

The guest speaker for this episode is Prof Edward Hollis (ECA, University of Edinburgh). 

We discuss what memory means in the context of the built environment and Prof Hollis presents a talk entitled 'Secret Lives, Memory Palaces and Concrete Monstrosities'. 

Edward Hollis is Professor of Interior Design at the Edinburgh College of Art in the University of Edinburgh.  

A PDF of images to accompany Professor Hollis's talk can be found here: http://connectingmemories.weebly.com/podcast.html

In this short preview, Paul Leworthy introduces the Connecting Memories podcasts and sets out what the series hopes to achieve.