Forgetting & Remembering
DEAR READERS OF RUPERTO CAROLA,
The terms FORGETTING & REMEMBERING represent a field of research in which scientists of Heidelberg University have been, and continue to be, delivering fundamental insights: these include the discovery of the key gene at the root of Alzheimer’s disease as well as pivotal research into the molecular and neural mechanisms of specific memory performance. This 24th edition of RUPERTO CAROLA offers a glimpse of current Heidelberg research in the fields of neurophysiology, psychology and medicine that deals with memory-related processes in the brain, but also with our immune system, whose functioning crucially depends on its ability to remember and forget.
The two terms also play an important role in other research across the faculties of our comprehensive university: the authors presenting their work in this edition investigate such topics as cultures of remembrance and historical narratives of European nations, dripstones and meteorites that carry the memory of natural events tens of thousands of years in the past and of the very birth of our planet, or novel “memory materials” for information storage. I wish you a stimulating reading experience, with many new insights that will hopefully not be soon forgotten!
Prof. Dr Frauke Melchior
Rector of Heidelberg University
- Interview with Monica Juneja & Hannah Monyer: In Search of Lost Time. The goddess Mnemosyne and the engram in the brain
- Frank Engehausen: Forgotten Victims. The case for regional remembrance
- Thomas Maissen: Patriotic Heroes or Murderous Aggressors? Historical narratives of European nations
- Stephanie Döpper: Lost Cities. Between idealisation and negligence
- Jan Rummel: It Never Left my Mind. The limits of intentional forgetting
- Andreas Draguhn: From Sea-Hares to Humans. Perspectives of neurophysiology
- Lutz Frölich: The Road to Oblivion. New therapies for Alzheimer’s disease
- Axel Roers: Blessing and Curse. Immunological Memory
- Jochen Apel: The Memory of the world. The Heidelberg University Library
- Ingo Runde: The Memory of the University. The Heidelberg University Archive
- Christian Heinze: Delisted. The right to be forgotten on the Internet
- Anna Kollatz: A “Mamluk Wikipedia”. Biographical memory culture in medieval Cairo
- Sophia Mehrbrey, Annika Stocker & Daniel Winkler: Rewritten and Omitted. Luis Trenker’s tales
- Henry Keazor & Liane Wilhelmus: Intersecting Life Circles. The guestbooks of Franz Moufang
