Memory, Mourning, and Historical Justice in Crisis Times
Welcome to the Working Paper Series!
The Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network launched its Working Paper (WP) Series in January 2014 and is seeking new submissions. The Working Paper Series are overseen by the editors Brittany Lauren Wheeler, Isaac Jean-François and Tim Wyman-McCarthy. The editors are looking for unpublished texts that emerging scholars, practitioners and others are willing to “workshop” within our intellectual community on issues of historical dialogue, historical and transitional justice, and public and social memory.
If you are interested in submitting a paper to the series, please e-mail our co-editors with the subject “Working Papers” at
historicaldialogues@gmail.com
Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network Working Paper Series
New thematic focus:
Memory, Mourning, and Historical Justice in Crisis Times
How is the experience of the contemporary moment of ecological, economic, and political crisis imbued with memory, mourning, and historical justice? Contributors are encouraged to consider what the past offers up to a present that is perceived to be at once singular, impossible, or extreme yet also accelerating, collective, and accumulating daily. Submissions may attempt to answer the following questions: How are mourning, trauma, tragedy, and loss articulated in relation to urgency? How might compounding events impact our ideas about the role of memorialization or the nature of resiliency? What becomes of historical justice and reparation alongside the demand for immediate redress? Submissions may consider (but are not limited to) the following topics: (un)natural disasters, environmental justice, or ecological mourning, pandemics and public health, anti-Black state violence and racial politics, political regimes (populist, authoritarian, (new)colonial, (post)imperial)), displacement(s), legal disenfranchisement, and monuments and public memory/history.
The Working Paper Series provides a platform for emerging scholars, practitioners and other interested individuals to workshop unpublished texts with our vibrant intellectual community. We welcome opinion pieces, policy memos/briefs, program proposals, scholarly contributions from all disciplines, or other genres of written work. While we are excited to receive submissions related to the current thematic focus, we will consider work on any topic related to historical dialogue, transitional justice, and public and social memory at any time.