Concepts

PhD candidate Argyris Sakorafas discusses the experience of Greek migrants on the transatlantic journey and why steamships were true global melting pots.

In his 1983 work, Benedict Anderson argues that the nation is not a primordial entity but a socially constructed phenomenon, an imagined community.

Why do some stories last 3,000 years while family memories fade in 80? Jan Assmann claimed that the answer lied in the difference between communicative and cultural memory.

Laurajane Smith has argued that heritage is not something material as we commonly think, but rather a discourse that selects what is worth preserving. She called this the Authorized Heritage Discourse (ADH).

Ethnosymbolism is an approach to the study of nationalism, grounded in the work of Anthony D. Smith, that emphasizes the importance of symbols, myths, and memories.

The term 'collective memory' was coined by the French philosopher Maurice Halbwachs to describe the process by which groups of people remember things and construct their group identities.