Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal

Submitting an article

The Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal is a peer-reviewed, 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. HMC is a Diamond Open Access journal; authors do not have to provide open access chargers to publish in this journal. The journal is financially supported by the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), University of Amsterdam. 

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: manuscriptmanager.net/hmc or via the button Submit manuscript. Please consult our Author Guidelines before submitting an article or other contribution for proposal (see below). 

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

Editorial Board

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

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