Memory in a global age : discourses, practices and trajectories / edited by Aleida Assmann and Sebastian Conrad.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I : WITNESSING IN A GLOBAL ARENA -- Addressing Painful Memories : Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations / Christopher Daase -- Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People / Danielle Celermajer and A. Dirk Moses -- PART II : MORAL CLAIMS AND UNIVERSAL NORMS -- The Past in the Present : Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America / Elizabeth Jelin -- Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust : How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide / Berthold Molden -- The Holocaust - a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community / Aleida Assmann -- PART III: GLOBAL MEMORIES AND TRANS-NATIONAL IDENTITIES -- Globalization, Universalization, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory / Jan Assmann -- Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories : National Mourning and Global Accountability / Jie-Hyun Lim -- Remembering Asia : History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan / Sebastian Conrad -- PART IV: GLOBAL ICONS AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS -- Globalizing Memory in a Divided City : Bruce Lee in Mostar / Grace Bolton and Nerina Muzurovic -- 'Fragments of Reminiscence' : Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory / Ana Sobral -- Neda : The Career of a Global Image / Aleida Assmann and Corinna Assmann.