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The sea, a special ecosystem with a special materiality, was long unable to become a medium for humankind’s cultural memories (at least under the prevailing confrontational national policies), and has long largely escaped political control and exploitation. Increasingly, however, Western literary and cinematic works have been linking the sea with memory, especially when themes of political transformation and the dissolution of borders are in the foreground. Current cultural interest in the sea can be traced to the transcultural phenomena that led to globalisation, expansion of communication channels, cross-border mobility, migration, refugeeism and the formation of the European Union. The sea offers a special space in which interdependencies and shifts, cultural de-differentiation and a fusion with the Other can be fostered, thus allowing for the creation of new genealogies and new paradigms in global (memory) politics. Not only does the sea make life possible – it also functions as a source and medium of new symbolic and epistemological frameworks. The following essays approach the sea from a historical and intermedial perspective, focusing on the aesthetic as well as the changing cultural functions of the sea. Title: Memory Meets Sea. Introduction