Would you like to help document commemorative culture and collective memory by blogging it in real time?

To increase the quality and diversity of the articles presented in this blog, I am calling for contributors to join me and write stories. Collaborators should have an interest in memorial culture from an academically-informed perspective. If you are interested in joining the team, you should be familiar with some of the recent scholarship on collective memory, for example the kinds of work listed here. Furthermore, you should be following, perhaps only peripherally, memorial culture in real time and be willing to write occasional stories for the blog:

• reports, analysis, commentary on commemorative events you witness or read about
• reports on scholarly news from the field
• brief book reviews or links to book reviews and other resources on new popular and scholarly literature related to the topic
• commentary on cultural events such as films and books as they relate to the theme
• other items of interest

A blog resembles journalism more than scholarship, so stories should be current, brief, and understandable to the general reader. There would be no obligation to write regularly, but a general expectation to write occasionally.

The goal is to make the blog into a collaborative intellectual effort bridging the gap between the academic and the popular with diverse content while raising the quality above the level I have been offering so far. It is not my expectation that this become a full-time scholarly project.

If we get some more collaborators, preferably in diverse geographic locations, I will personally fund an upgrade for the blog so that we can organize and present the content in a more purposeful and professional fashion.

The URL for this story is: http://sitesofmemory.twoday.net/stories/3292131/