Cognition, Culture, and Political Momentum: Breaking Down the Silos in Collective Memory Research

Astrid Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2011, she founded the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, a vibrant forum for international and interdisciplinary dialogues on collective memory. She is the author of Travels in Time (Oxford, 2025) and Memory in Culture (2011), which has been translated into five languages.

William Hirst is Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research. He examines the contribution of the cognitive sciences to the study of social and collective memory and the ways this work can be integrated into the more humanities-and social science-based approaches to Memory Studies. He has published over 150 articles and edited five books on these topics.