Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal

Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal (HMC) is an international, peer-reviewed, diamond open access Journal that critically analyses the tangible and intangible remnants, traces and spaces of the past in the present, as well as the remaking of pasts into heritage and memory, including processes of appropriations and restitutions, significations and musealization and mediatisation. This interdisciplinary journal addresses the dynamics of memory and forgetting, as well as the politics of trauma, mourning and reconciliation, identity, nationalism and ethnicity, heritage preservation and restoration, material culture, conservation and management, conflict archaeology, dark tourism, diaspora and postcolonial memory, terrorscapes, migration, borders, and the mediated re-enactments of conflicted pasts.

HMC covers the fields of memory studies, cultural studies, museum studies, arts and media and performative studies, postcolonial studies, ethnology, Holocaust and genocide studies, conflict and identity studies, archaeology, material culture and landscapes, conservation and restoration, cultural, public and oral history, critical and digital heritage studies. By crossing academic, artistic and professional boundaries, the journal aims to offer an interdisciplinary space for the rich scholarship in these fields, and to contribute to a better understanding of the extent to which memory sites and discourses operate as vehicles at local, national and transnational levels.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Ihab Saloul
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Managing Editor & Book Review
Dr. Mario Panico
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Subject Editors
Dr. Britt Baillie, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Subject: Transnational and interdisciplinary approaches; Spatiality and the city; Landscapes, conflict, media and performative studies; Conflict heritage; Identity Politics and Commemoration; Material Culture & Archaeology

Dr. Gilly Carr, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Subject: Forgetting, mourning, Trauma, nostalgia; Conflict archaeology; Holocaust and genocide studies; Cultural, public and oral history

Dr. Zuzanna Dziuban, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna , Austria
Subject: Conflict heritage; Dead bodies and forensics; (dark) tourism; Material, political and affective afterlives of memory

Prof. Marek E. Jasinski, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway
Subject: Critical and digital heritage studies; Interdisciplinary approaches; Postwar memory; Heritage preservation, conservation and restoration; Material Culture & Archaeology; Archaeology

Dr. Francesca Lanz, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Subject: Cultural Heritage and Memory Studies; Conflict and War; Identity Politics and Commemoration; Material Culture and Museualization

Dr. Francesco Mazzucchelli, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Subject: Critical and digital heritage studies; Forgetting, mourning, Trauma, nostalgia; Nationalism and ethnicity; Political discourse, media, arts, literature; (dark) tourism; Industrial design; Material, political and affective afterlives of memory

Dr. Mario Panico, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Subject: Cultural Heritage; Memory Studies; Visual Studies; Nostalgia; Museums and memory sites; Material Culture; Narrative Theory; Media and Audiovisual Studies; Perpetrator Studies

Prof. Ihab Saloul, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Subject: Cultural Heritage and Memory Studies; Public and oral history; Identity Politics and Commemoration; Political discourse, media, arts, literature; Museum Studies, Trauma Museums, Semiotics and Narrative Theory; Postcolonialism and transnational Narratives; Diaspora and postcolonial memories

Prof. Caroline Sturdy Colls, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Subject: Critical and digital heritage studies; Cultural history; Conflict archaeology; Holocaust and genocide studies; Dead bodies and forensics

Prof. Rob van der Laarse, University of Amsterdam & VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Subject: Critical and digital heritage studies; Interdisciplinary approaches; Holocaust and genocide studies; Conflict heritage; Postwar memory; Identity Politics and Commemoration; (dark) tourism; Heritage preservation, conservation and restoration; Material Culture & Archaeology

Prof. Patrizia Violi, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Subject: Semiotics, Trauma Museums, Political discourse, media, arts, literature; Material Culture and Museualization; Museum Studies, Narrative Theory; Postcolonialism

Dr. Marilena Mela, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Subject: Heritage studies; History; Architectural Theory; Design; Landscape; Urbanism; Sustainability.

Dr. Sjoerd Kluiving, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Subject: Physical Geography; Geology; Archaeology; Landscapes; Archaeological monuments. 

Geith Alkhateeb, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Subject: Landscape architecture

Scientific Board
Prof. Rob van der Laarse
University of Amsterdam & VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dr. Gilly Carr
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prof. Marek E. Jasinski
NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway 

Prof. Patrizia Violi
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

This journal uses a double-blind peer review process, which means that both reviewer and author's names are concealed throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not reveal their identity. The editorial board decides whether to accept, conditionally accept or reject the manuscript. If the article is conditionally accepted, it will be returned to the author for revision, upon which the editors take the final decision to accept or reject the article for publication. Authors will need to sign a Consent to Publish Agreement prior to publication. 

The editors will endeavour to review your article as quickly as possible, but they are reliant on the availability of suitable referees. To expedite the review process it is important to follow the directions given in this document and address any recommendations given in the review reports in a separate document when you submit your revised manuscript to the managing editor.

The Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal considers the following papers: scientific papers, project descriptions, book reviews, and interviews. Articles should be submitted to our editorial platform Manuscript Manager via manuscriptmanager.net/hmc. Please consult our author guidelines before submitting an article or other contribution for proposal (see below).

Author Guidelines (PDF)
Consent to Publish Form (PDF)