Members of our research project have contributed to the latest issue of Tiempo devorado (vol. 10, no. 1, 2025), a monographic volume entitled Cultures de desmobilització. La construcció dels excombatents i el seu impacte al món actual. The issue is coordinated by Dr Albert Soler Ruda, who serves as guest editor and signs both the introduction and a research article on cultures of demobilisation and contemporary ex-combatants, as well as a contribution in the “Entrevistes, documents, conceptes” section.
In the same volume, Dr Cristina Pividori publishes the article “Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered: WWI Trauma, Memory and Contemporary Anti-War Poetry in the Post-Everything Era’”, which examines how contemporary poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay re-read and respond to Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon in the anthology 1914: Poetry Remembers. Drawing on theories of cultural memory and postmemory, the article argues that First World War poetry remains a crucial reference point for thinking about conflict, remembrance and dissent in the twenty-first century, and shows how intergenerational poetic dialogues reactivate and transform the memory of war for new readers.
The special issue is available open access through the UAB Dipòsit Digital de Documents and the journal’s website.