Collective Memory Narratives in Contemporary Culture

The Reasons Why the Narrative of Memory and not Storytelling. Reconstructing Past, Present and Future.- Building the Future: Transcultural and Transnational Dimensions of the Narratives of the Past.- Diversity of Collective Memories and Identification Processes on Monuments: The Case Study of Columbus Monument in Huelva (Spain).- Is Nostalgia Dangerous? Post-Soviet Nostalgia in the Memory of the Soviet Times and the Fluctuations of the Social Order.- Labor Memories: Distant Reading Exercises.- European Memory and Identity During the Refugee Crisis.- Bodies on the Border: Sports Stories and Memories of Istrian and Dalmatian Exiles Narratives and Social Reality.- Narratives of Memory on Twitter: the case of the Día de la Lealtad in Argentina.- The "Movimiento 19 de abril" (Colombia) and the Reconstruction of Public Memory between Narrative and Counter-narrative.- The symbol as a memory. The transcendence in the religious narrative of the book of Job.- The memory of art or the art of memory: the roles of art in the reconversion of industrial sites.- Knowledge of the History of Latin American Philosophical and Political Thought in Political Culture of the New Generations.- The Narratives about the Two Sides of Wars: New Technologies Entangled by Antiquity.

Antonella Pocecco is a researcher at the Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Social Studies, University of Udine, where she teaches Sociology of Mass Communications and Intercultural Communication. She is the coordinator the MECOME (Collective Memory and Media) research group and co-founder member of the international research group Narratives and Social Changes. Her latest publications include: (with M. Pascoli), Visitare il passato. Il turismo della memoria della Grande guerra nel Friuli Venezia Giulia (FrancoAngeli, 2021); "I media nella costruzione della memoria: la pluralizzazione del ricordo", Metis - M ,. XXVIII, 2021, 1; "Transnationalism and Universalism of the Memory Tourism of the Great War", Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge-JMK, 5, 2020, 1; (ed.), Memorie del presente. Luoghi, oggetti e culture della società globale (FrancoAngeli, 2019). Estrella Gualda is a Full Professor of Sociology, a Full Member of the Academia Iberoamericana de La Rábida, and past President of the Andalusian Sociological Association (2018-2022). She develops her work at the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, University of Huelva, Spain, where she also is the Director of the Social Studies and Social Intervention Research Centre since 2001. She is a member of the COIDESO Research Centre at the University of Huelva and a co-founder member of the international research group Narratives & Social Changes - International Research Group, an Associate Researcher of the International Lab for Innovative Social Research, and a founder member of the Applied Computational Social Sciences Lab, at the University of Huelva. Recent publications are: "Big data y ciencias sociales: Una mirada comparativa a las publicaciones de antropología, sociología y trabajo social" (Gazeta de antropología, 2023); "Social big data, sociología y ciencias sociales computacionales" (Empiria,