Research MagazineOf the World’s Memory, the Right to be Forgotten and Novel “Memory Materials”
Press Release No. 90/2024
26 July 2024
New edition of Heidelberg University’s research magazine dedicated to the paired concepts FORGETTING & REMEMBERING
The paired concepts underlying the recent edition of the research magazine RUPERTO CAROLA stand for research areas that academics at Heidelberg University have helped to shape with elementary findings – for example, when discovering the key gene at the root of Alzheimer’s disease and likewise with pivotal research into the molecular and neuronal mechanisms of specific memory performance. Above and beyond neurophysiology, psychology and medicine, however, FORGETTING & REMEMBERING also play a pivotal role in other research connections across the 13 university faculties. 20 Heidelberg researchers report on their work in the 24th edition of the magazine, which also includes two articles on the University Archives and the University Library.
The academics who present their research in the current edition decode, for example, from dripstones, testimonies to a natural disaster that happened more than ten thousand years ago, or analyze how the right to be forgotten on the internet is organized in Europe. They deal with questions pertaining to cultures of remembrance and historical narratives of European nations, or develop novel “memory materials” for information storage. The medical contributions are not only devoted to memory-related processes in the brain but also to the immune system, for which forgetting and remembering constitute a core principle. In the expert conversation, art historian Prof. Dr Monica Juneja and neurobiologist Prof. Dr Hannah Monyer discuss collective memory, cellular signaling processes and conscious forgetting. The presentation of current Heidelberg research is supplemented by articles on the University Archives as the “memory of the university” and the University Library as the “memory of the world”.
The research magazine RUPERTO CAROLA appears twice a year, mainly in German with English abstracts, and addresses all members of the university, its partners in academia, politics, business and society, and, in particular, alumni, friends and an interested public in Germany and abroad. The magazine is available from the Communications and Marketing department of Heidelberg University (Old University, Grabengasse 1, phone +49 6221 / 54-2311). All editions are also accessible online via the open-access publisher Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP).