War, like the past, “can be seized only as an image that flashes up at the moment of its recognizability, and is never seen again.” Walter Benjamin’s discussion of history (1940) is only one way to articulate the relationship between individual or collective memories and media through either the “image” or media institutions. For example, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial resonates in private and public recollections of Vietnam. Associated with Maya Lin’s vision, however, is another popular illustration of a man mourning and a soldier’s image reflecting back through the black-polished granite. Sold on t-shirts and as framed prints, this picture informs the ideological function a memorial has in the construction of America’s national history. Public art is a media through which memory and war intersect. InterCulture is seeking papers, creative work, and reviews that connect media and memory through a discussion of a war or wars. This issue works alongside InterCulture’s Fall/ Winter issue devoted to “The Front” available at http://dih.fsu.edu/interculture/. Possible subjects include, but are not limited to:

---construction of memory through film
---use of Cold war rhetoric in current War on Terror
---documentation of survivor accounts
---discourses on the soldier (hero)
---how social theory ‘remembers’ or implicates war
---identity (gender, race, class, sexuality) and the memory of war
---capitalism and the discourse of war
---monuments and memorials
---violence and issues concerning human rights
---memory in popular culture (film, television, video games, etc)
---memory as ideology in literature, music, sport

Being an interdisciplinary journal, we welcome work ranging from philosophical discussions of history or an analysis of The Thin Red Line to a research project on genocide and the news media. We are also interested in publishing reviews on academic texts, fiction, film, art exhibitions, video games, or any other cultural objects pertaining to the topic at hand. These could range from traditional reviews to more creative ‘think pieces’ that study an advertisement, for example. Feel free to write the editor (kwright@fsu.edu) if you want feedback on any ideas for a review you have in mind.

All citations must use the MLA format. Please include a 100 – 200 word abstract with your submission that will be included alongside your paper should it be published. No abstract is required for reviews. For more information regarding the submission of creative work or other inquiries, see the “Submission Guidelines” on InterCulture’s website at
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Please send submissions via email to:
Katheryn Wright, Managing Editor
Florida State University
kwright@fsu.edu