2025 Open Calls

DOSSIÊ: Communication and Memory: theoretical perspectives and materialities

Editors: Ana Paula Goulart Ribeiro (UFRJ), Izamara Bastos Machado (Fiocruz), Rachel Bertol (UFF)

Submission deadline: June 23, 2025 (NEW DATE!)
Publication date: September 2025

Call for papers:
Contemporary forms of memory are largely shaped by the everyday uses of the media. Attentive to these connections, studies on communication and memory have become a fertile field of research in recent decades. The debate on the topic unfolds in multiple approaches, both in terms of the theoretical perspectives adopted and the themes and issues researched. In this sense, this dossier is open to works that explore the diversity of research possibilities. We welcome texts that, from different perspectives on the relationship between memory and communication, address issues related to the following topics (not restricted to these):

- Political uses of the past, trauma and testimony
- Temporalities and historicities in communication processes
- Journalistic, photographic and audiovisual practices
- Digital media and social networks
- Silences, denialism, forgetfulness and reparation
- Collective activism, body and performances
- Forms of nostalgia and melancholy
- Communication and health
- Archives and counter-archives