Digital Memory Dialogues

Our first ‘Dialogues’ series launches in Summer 2025.

What is Digital Memory Dialogues?

…a dynamic, transdisciplinary, participatory, and networked publishing space focused on addressing the challenges and opportunities Holocaust memory faces in the digital age.

Digital Memory Dialogues seeks to challenge traditional ideas of disciplinary silos and disrupt distinctions between ‘academic research’ and ‘research and development’ within the heritage, and creative and technical media industries.

It prioritises transdisciplinary dialogue at all stages of production and dissemination.

What do we Publish?

‘Provocation’ from the Latin for ‘calling forth’.

‘Dialogues’ from the Greek Dialogos, ‘dia’ – through or inter, ‘logos’ – words: ‘a conversation between two or more person’.

We publish quarterly dialogues – each on a specific theme.

Each dialogue consists of a provocation written by an editor and four curated responses, each representing expertise from a different sector or discipline. The responses will be peer-reviewed by the other respondents, before all of the contributors participate in a public online event, where the audience are welcomed to enter into the discussion.

Submission Guidelines

We do not take unsolicited submissions. If you are interested in proposing a theme and acting as guest editor, please contact us via LandeckerDigitalMemoryLab@sussex.ac.uk

What Are Our Editorial Processes?

Our editorial board meet at least once a year to plan the schedule of themes and propose editorial responsible of each dialogue (from either within the board or guest editors).

For each dialogue, the editor of that series is responsible for sourcing an appropriate mix of contributors, which should cover a diverse range of expertise both practice and research. The editor writes the dialogue provocation, which is approved by the Editor-in-Chief (Prof Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden) or Co-Editors (Dr Kate Marrison and Dr Ben Pelling) before circulation.

Contributors submit their responses directly to the Dialogue Editor, who converses with the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editors on the suitability of the responses for the Dialogue and the publishing space more generally.

Each contributor follows our peer-review guidelines to review each other’s submission. The Dialogue Editor then collates all peer-review and returns a summary to each contributor, who edits their work accordingly.

After final review by the Dialogue Editor checking that each contributor follows our style guide and has appropriately responded to review comments, the core Editorial team have final sign off then each piece is published in sequence, followed by the online discussion over a 6-week period.