University of Warwick

Memory Group

European History Research Centre (EHRC)

Connecting Cultures Global Research Priority

cordially invite you to two events with

Prof Astrid Erll

(Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)

Public Lecture

From “Cultural Paradigms” to Transcultural Premediation: Media and the Shape of Memory

14 May 2015, 5pm

Wolfson Research Exchange

(3^rd floor, University of Warwick Library)

Graduate Workshop on Memory Studies

15 May 2015, 10.00am -12.00pm

Wolfson Research Exchange

(3^rd floor University of Warwick Library)

This workshop will offer graduate students working in the area of memory studies an opportunity to discuss their current projects with Prof Erll.Registration is required for the workshop only, contact Ms Tracy Smith on t.smith.2@warwick.ac.uk by 8 May 2015

 Astrid Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. She has worked on memories of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, British colonialism in India and the Vietnam war. She is general editor of the book series Media and Cultural Memory (de Gruyter, since 2004), co-editor of A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies (with A. Nünning, 2010), Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory (with A. Rigney, 2009), and author of Memory in Culture (Palgrave 2011)/ Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen (2005, 2nd ed. 2011), an introduction to memory studies. She is part of the editorial board of the journal Memory Studies (SAGE) and the book series Memory Studies (Palgrave).