Ihab Saloul is Professor of Heritage, Memory and Narrative, founder and Academic Director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), University of Amsterdam. His interests include heritage and memory studies, cultural studies, narrative theory and semiotics, postcolonialism, aesthetics, and diaspora and exile in contemporary cultural thought in Europe and beyond. His latest publications includeW.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacies: Memory, Word and Image(2023), andDiasporic Heritage and Identity(2023). Patrizia Violi is an Alma Mater Professor at the University of Bologna and the founder of 'TraMe - Centre for the Semiotic Study of Memory' at the same university. She was director of the 'Centro Internazionale di Studi Umberto Eco' and PI of various European funded projects on trauma and urban space. She has published internationally on the relationship between trauma and memory, with a specific focus on Chile, Argentina and Colombia. Her latest publications includeLandscapes of Memory: Trauma, Space, History(2017), andReading Memory Sites Through Signs: Hiding into Landscape(2023). Anna Maria Lorusso is Professor of Semiotics at the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna. Lorusso was President of the Italian Association of Semiotics (2017-2021). Her research is focused on the semiotics of culture, logic of information and cultural memory. Lorusso is the editor ofMemosur/ Memosouth: Memory, Commemoration and Trauma in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Chile(2017), and the special issue "Perspectives on Post-Truth" (2023). Cristina Demaria is Professor of Semiotics at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, where she teaches semiotics of conflict, gender studies and semiotics of social sciences. She has worked extensively on traumatic memories and their representation, on visual culture and documentary films, and on gender studies and post-feminism. Her latest publications includePost-Conflict Cultures. A Reader(2021), andReading Memory Sites Through Signs: Hiding into Landscape(2023).