1. Working Title: Perceptions to the World: Building a National Image in Post-Revolutionary Mexico • Victor Aguilar, University of Arizona.

2. “We Don’t Search for Songs, We Search for Memories”: Nostalgia, Iconicity, and Sacred Symbolic Longing • Steven Koh, Yale University.

3. Traveling the Other Germany: The Social Production of the “Imaginary East” during Ostpolitik, 1967–1973 • Federica Schiaffino, Scuola Normale Superiore.

4. Revival of anti-Manchu Discourses in the Chinese Internet Popular Culture • Tingchun Wang, The University of Texas at Austin.

5. The Invisible Past on the Ballot Box: Latent Structures, Collective Memories, and Voting Preference in Post-Soviet Russia • Zheng Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison.