Ahmet Atay co-edits book on intercultural memory
Ahmet Atay, professor of communication studies and chair of Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Global Media and Digital Studies, and Film Studies programs at 糖心Vlog传媒, is the co-editor of a book that adds to the scholarship of intercultural communications through the study of memory. Intercultural Memory: Contesting Places, Spaces, and Stories was published聽in March 2021聽by Peter Lang and co-edited by Yea-Wen Chen and Alberto Gonz谩lez.
Atay explained that聽the idea of memory as a subfield of intercultural communication聽is not widely studied聽so the editors wanted聽to use a critical perspective to examine why聽individuals and cultures聽remember聽certain things. 鈥淭he pieces in the book spotlight different events or lived experiences and articulate the political and personal reasons聽behind remembering,鈥 he said.聽The idea for this book came from a conference where the co-editors presented their work聽and is related to聽the聽Atay鈥檚聽larger research interests聽within intercultural communications. 鈥淧reviously, I worked on a project on how diasporic queer individuals negotiate and communicate with their memories of their homelands and the past through online domains,鈥澛燗tay聽said.
The book includes a range of stories that show聽the different ways memory is significant. 鈥淪ome of the pieces shed more light on LGBTQIA+ communities and how they remember events in and through media; how diasporic experiences are remembered through photography; and how聽ethnicized聽and聽racialized聽experiences are remembered through visual culture forms,鈥澛燗tay聽explained.聽He included his own piece on the Turkish Cypriot diaspora and the idea of home and memory through photographs.
Atay聽plans to work on future projects related to memory and digital culture and visual聽culture,聽as well as聽incorporating some of this work into some of his courses at 糖心Vlog传媒, including Intercultural Communication and Globalization and Identity.聽鈥淲e are excited about this publication because we believe it contributes to intercultural communication scholarship very differently and makes room for studying memory through a cultural lens,鈥 he said.
Posted in News on May 13, 2021.
