Memory and the Future

LOUIS BICKFORD Lecturer at The New School and New York University, USA FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN Assistant Professor of History at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, USA LINDSEY A. FREEMAN PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research, USA WILLIAM HIRST Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, USA DAVID JANES University in Exile Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research, USA JONATHAN KOPPEL PhD Candidate in Cognitive Psychology at The New School for Social Research, USA DORI LAUB Clinical Professor of Psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, USA DANIEL LEVY Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University, New York, USA SELMA LEYDESDORFF Professor of Oral History and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ROSS POOLE Lecturer in the Departments of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, USA GEMA SANTAMARIA-BALMACEDA PhD Candidate in Sociology at The New School for Social Research, USA ANN SNITOW Director of the Gender Studies Program at The New School, USA KIMBERLY SPRING PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research, USA

For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into the study of memory.For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into the study of memory.