Interview with Rick Derderian: Host of the Realms of Memory podcast

Abstract

Rick Derderian is the host of the podcast Realms of Memory. Tasked with understanding ‘how countries address their darkest chapters’, the podcast has grown to be a space where academics, campaigners, and heritage practitioners discuss how their work engages with ideas of collective memory and trauma. In an interview touching on the various case studies and themes addressed in the podcast, Derderian provides his thoughts on how memory has become an increasingly central part of political debates and how new conceptual approaches to memory studies have shaped his own ideas about the role of the past in the present.