Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age

Eve Monique Zucker is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, USA, and a research affiliate at Yale University, USA. She is the author of Forest of Struggle: Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia (2013).David J. Simon is Director of the Genocide Studies Program and Senior Lecturer of Political Science at Yale University, USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Memorialization in Rwanda:  The legal, social, and digital constructions of the memorial narrative.- 3. Breaking the Silence: Memorialization and Cultural Repair in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide.- 4. Let Them Speak: An Effort to Reconnect Communities of Survivors in a Digital Archive.- 5. (Re)producing the past online: Oral history and social media-based discourse on Cambodian performing arts in the aftermath of genocide.- 6. From the material to the digital: Reflections on collecting and exhibiting grief at the 9/11 Memorial Museum.- 7. Teaching and learning in virtual places of exception: Gone Gitmo and the Guantánamo Bay museum of art and history.- 8. The slow rise of social movement organizations for memorialization in Haiti: Lutte Contre Impunite, Devoire de Memoire-Haiti and the struggle for digitizing the truth.- 9. “Rebuilding the jigsaw of memory”: The discourse of Portuguese colonial war veterans’ blogs.- 10. Conclusion.