Artificial Memory

“The Artificial Intelligence Researcher: studies the human mind, including examining the way people produce historical accounts of particular subjects, with a view to modelling such behaviour with a computer program whose products would be indistinguishable from those of a live historien."

“History Teaching and Artificial Intelligence”. Ennals, Richard, published in *Teaching History* in… June **1982**!

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AI’s great brain robbery — and how universities can fight back ChatGPT and its like have swept through academia, changing how students work, write and think. The bots are here to stay, so we need to reimagine learning

"AI's great brain robbery" Niall Ferguson

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How AI is becoming a pretext for restoring a conservative and elitist vision of the university and of the historical sciences.

Though a bit too general, a definitively important article.

Final day of the formal programme of @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social and our Director contributed to a roundtable on handling the #AI hype in #MemoryStudies

Today at Memory Studies Association annual meeting (MSA Prague): 📣📣📣 15.30-17.00 CET: Lab Director Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden's talk on New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies in light of the 'fourth wave' and the field's interest in AI. #MSAPrague2025 #MemoryStudies #MemoryPolitics

(Henry Rousso, sorry for the misspelling)

Does he ignore the return to commemoration that has been taking place since the 1990s? Will it become a political issue in politically polarized France, with a Rassemblement National co-founded as Front National by, among others, former Waffen-SS? The coming days will tell us. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

Bayrou is therefore probably convinced of the uselessness of May 8th, belonging to a generation for which it was not self-evident. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

Lecanuet was Minister of Justice under Giscard d'Estaing (Chirac government), in other words a member of the government that preferred a Europe Day in place of May 8th.
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Bayrou entered politics in 1974, close to Jean Lecanuet, and member of the Democratic Center which later became the Center of Social Democrats - which most closely resembles Christian Democrats in France. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

But the 1990s saw this trend reverse, with a quite marked movement of return to commemorations. The success of the centenary of the Great War, moreover, confirmed this renewal of World War commemorations. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

(Evelyne Damoi, Jean-Pierre Rioux, and Institut d'histoire du temps présent (IHTP) eds., La Mémoire des Français: quarante ans de commémorations de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Éditions du CNRS, 1986)

Paradoxically, when François Mitterrand re-established May 8 as a commemorative public holiday, commemorations of the end of the two World Wars were at a low ebb: few people participated in them. To the point that IHTP researchers then questioned their pure and simple disappearance. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

Since then, the president of the Republic reviews the French Army under the Arc de Triomphe before reviving the flame of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

In 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, elected president in 1974, replaced it with a Europe Day celebrating Franco-German reconciliation. In 1981, his successor, François Mitterrand, reverted to the situation of 1953 and again established 8 May as a public holiday.

The Vth Republic reversed this decision in 1959 and changed the commemoration day to the second Sunday in May. In 1968, 8 May became an official day of commemoration again, though remaining a working day.

In 1946, the Sunday following 8 May (or on the 8 May if it was a Sunday) was immediately declared a day of commemoration by the Fourth Republic. In 1953, 8 May itself, at the request of the veterans' associations, became a public holiday.

The fragmentation of the memory of the Second World War, the multiplicity of "candidate dates" can partly explain the history of May 8th as a commemorative and public holiday. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

(Pervillé, G. (2006). « Die Erinnerung an den 8. Mai 1945 in Algerien und Frankreich ». In Erinnerung und Geschichte: 60 Jahre nach dem 8. Mai 1945. Genshagener Gespräche, Bd. 9. Wallstein-Verl. guy.perville.free.fr/spip/article... [French])

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There is also the other May 8: the massacres of Sétif, Guelma and Kherrata in Algeria, then a Fernch colony, which are (of course) not on the official calendar of national commemorations. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

the Appeal of 18 June 1940; the Liberation, beginning with the D-Day landing (6 June 1944) with many local dates; the liberation of the death camps, particularly Auschwitz (25 January 1945), the Vel d'Hiv roundup (16–17 July 1942); and the surrender of Germany (7-8 May 1945) #ww2 #8Mai #May8

This memorial fragmentation of the Second World War seemed to us to have one consequence: there is a plethora of commemorative dates of the Second World War inscribed in the calendar of national days: #ww2 #8Mai #May8

(Conan, É., and Rousso, H. (1996). Vichy, un passé qui ne passe pas (New ed). Messageries du Livre.)

The French memory of the Second World War is thus fragmented and has been the subject of public debates since the 1990s that have sometimes been particularly violent. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

(Rousso, H. (1986). « Cet obscur objet du souvenir ». In La Mémoire des Français: quarante ans de commémorations de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, edited by Evelyne Damoi, Jean-Pierre Rioux, and Institut d'histoire du temps présent (France), 47–61. CNRS)

This refers to the meaning of #ww2 in the French collective memory: Henri Rousso, for example, recalled in 1986 that the history of France in the Second World War is a history of divisions between Resistance and Collaboration, between the Vichy Regime and the France Libre

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For this chapter we examined the history of April 25th and May 8th. There is an entire literature on May 8th, because, unlike November 11th which commemorates the end of the First World War, it is a commemorative date that has long been contested. #ww2 #8Mai #May8

(Clavert, Paci, «"Le goût d'un jour de fête"? Commemorating the end of the Second World War on Twitter during the lockdown» in: Fridman O. and Gensburger S. (eds.), The Covid-19 Pandemic Memory. Remembrance, Commemoration, and Archiving in Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.)