Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Were it not for the worldwide catastrophe of Covid-19, today is the day we would have been convening in Charlottesville for the fourth annual Memory Studies Association meeting. While there is much about which to be more concerned in the world today than a missed meeting, perhaps we might be permitted just […]
!Important Notice!!
Dear Colleagues,
With greatest regret, we write to inform you of our decision to cancel this year’s MSA conference, which was to take place from June 18-21 in Charlottesville.
To be sure, those dates are still more than three months away. While we have every hope that the crisis will have passed […]
The Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies (PoSoCoMeS) working group is part of the Memory Studies Association. Our goal is to bring together researchers, activists, and practitioners working in and on post-socialist countries. We […]
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𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬: 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐒𝐨𝐂𝐨𝐌𝐞𝐒 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐮, 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐨𝐯𝐚, 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎)
𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡-𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒: 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚, 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡-𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡-𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑢𝑚𝑎
The Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies (PoSoCoMeS) working group is part of the Memory Studies Association (https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/posocomes/). Our goal is to bring together researchers, activists, and practitioners working in and […]
The Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia (USA) invites applications for an experimental “Graduate Seminar in Memory Studies” to be offered in Spring semester 2020. This seminar is supported by The Memory Project at the University of Virginia—part of The Democracy Initiative (democracyinitiative.virginia.edu)— […]
Presentation
For the last few years the research group on Transcultural Studies (NETCult), anchored at the Center for Humanistic Studies at the University […]
Call for Papers
Special Edition of Holocaust Studies: Culture and History:
‘Holocaust Memory and Education in the Digital Age’
Digital media are playing an increasing role in Holocaust memory and education. These include digital mapping projects like www.danskejoederitheresienstadt.org<http://www.danskejoederitheresienstadt.org/>, VR representations of former concentration and death camps, such as the one of Sobibór, viewable at Camp Vught in The Netherlands, […]
This seminar aims to look at issues of memory and spatialization. By space in transit […]
Following the success of previous ACLA seminars, “The Story of Memory: Remembering, Forgetting, and Unreliable Narrators” and “The Story of Remembrance: The Future of Memory and Memories of the Future” in […]
St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
Keynote lecture:
‘High Mountains are a Feeling: Queering Ice and Snow’
Professor Diane Purkiss (Keble College, Oxford)
Vladimir Nabokov once provocatively remarked that ‘great novels are great fairy tales… literature does not […]
