Memory Studies 5(2) 223–239 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1750698011428302 mss.sagepub.com Dispersal and redemption: The future dynamics of memory studies – A roundtable Pieter Vermeulen Stockholm University, Sweden Stef Craps Ghent University, Belgium Richard Crownshaw University of London, UK Ortwin de Graef University of Leuven, Belgium Andreas Huyssen Columbia University, USA Vivian Liska University of Antwerp, Belgium David Miller University of Stirling, UK Introduction Pieter Vermeulen and Stef Craps Ever since Pierre Nora’s (1989: 7) paradoxical statement that ‘[w]e speak so much of memory because there is so little of it left’, memory studies, the area of inquiry Nora helped to inaugurate, has been a discourse of crisis. Emerging in the humanities in the 1980s, though with roots going Corresponding author: Pieter Vermeulen, Stockholm University, Department of English, S-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden. Email: pietervermeulen23@hotmail.com 428302MSS 5 2 10.1177/1750698011428302Vermeulen et al.Memory Studies 2012 Roundtable at Stockholms Universitet on May 5, 2012 mss.sagepub.com Downloaded from