Call for Papers Genealogies of Memory: The Holocaust between Global and Local Perspectives
Warsaw, November 25-27, 2020
Submission deadline: 31 May 2020
The aim of the conference is to assess the current state of Holocaust memory research. The context for this is, on the one hand, the globalisation and universalisation of the meaning of the Holocaust and, on […]
Call for Applications- histoCON 2020- 75 years after WWII: Peace under construction?
6 – 9 May, 2020
EUREF Campus, Berlin, Germany
Young people from all over the world are invited to look back and think ahead from 6 to 9 May, 2020 at in Berlin, Germany. The Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb invites 500 young interested people […]
Call for Papers -Mnemonics 2020: Memory and Migration
The ninth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school
UPDATE: postponed until August 2021
Hosted by Aarhus University, at the historical Sandbjerg Manor in Southern Denmark.
The annual Mnemonics summer school brings together junior and senior scholars in the interdisciplinary field of memory studies, affording PhD students from around the world […]
The year 1945 marks a turning point in world history. The defeat of Germany and the end of Nazism as well as the defeat of Japan 75 years ago, and its militaristic […]
Digital Holocaust Memory Roundtable Event
University of Sussex, Mon, 23 March 2020 16:00 – 18:00 GMT
As Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism proliferate online, taking stock of how the digital may (or may not) be useful in perpetuating Holocaust memory has never been a more urgent inquiry.
This round table discussion explores what Holocaust museums, educational teams and archives […]
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, King’s College London
Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand/NYU
George Abungu, Archaeologist and International Heritage Consultant Anwar Janoo, University of Mauritius
Note from the conference organizers: ‘We will continue to closely […]
The School of Sociology at University College Dublin is pleased to invite applications from outstanding candidates for four (4) Ad Astra PhD Scholarships.
First established in 1854, UCD is Ireland’s largest university with almost 30,000 students, including 10,000 graduate students. It is one of the major […]
Memory studies and the heritage sector have developed a sophisticated set of theoretical concepts and practical tools to analyse and represent the singular events and violent episodes of history, often framed in terms of “trauma.” Consequently, confrontation with the […]
University of Malta
Section 37: The International Politics of Memory
Section Chairs: Lina Klymenko (Tampere University) and Karl Gustafsson (Stockholm University)
Over the past decades, issues related to how societies relate to the past have been the subject of astounding academic interest. Traditionally, collective memory, […]