Alexandre Dessingué is Professor of Literacy Studies, History Education and History/Memory culture at the Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger, Norway. He is a memory scholar who has been working in different fields like in cultural history, cultural memory studies, comparative literature studies, critical literacy/thinking and history education. He is interested in the many ways in which history and more generally the past are represented and (mis)used in society. This includes the study of collective and cultural memory, the (des)construction of identities, the study of historical consciousness and critical thinking. He has published several books, chapters and articles in these related areas of research.
Paula Hamilton is Professor of History at the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the State Library of NSW. She is a cultural historian who has published widely in oral history and memory studies, both in Australia and internationally, exploring the intersection between personal and public remembrance. She has supervised over 30 doctoral theses and is also a public historian, collaborating in a range of historical projects with libraries, community groups, museums, and heritage agencies.