The Journal of Women’s History, founded in 1989 as the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women’s history, invites proposals for a new editorial home for a five-year term beginning June 1, 2020. Over the course of nearly three decades, the Journal has successfully bridged the divide between “women’s” and “gender” history by foregrounding women as […]
MEMORY STUDIES ’18 / III. International Interdisciplinary Conference on Memory and the Past will be held at Nippon Meeting Halls in Istanbul. The conference is coordinated by DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center) and will be organized by BILSAS (Science, Art, Sport Productions).
All abstracts are going to be selected according to double blind reviews and accepted papers will be published in the Conference […]
The McMaster University Department of History Conference Committee invites papers and panel proposals for the first Wilson Institute Graduate Student Conference, which will be held on November 9th and 10th, 2018 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Graduate students in the field of history and beyond are constantly looking for ways to advance historical research […]
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies in association with Liverpool University Press
Orientalism and the Francophone Postcolonial World: Legacies of Edward W. Said
Friday 16–Saturday 17 November 2018
Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Confirmed keynote speakers: Jean-Marc Moura (Université Paris Nanterre) and Patrick Williams (Nottingham Trent University)
2018 marks forty years since the […]
Memory and Religion: Central and Eastern Europe in a Global Perspective
International Conference
Warsaw, 16-18 October 2018
Contemporary post-secular researchers stress that in the time of multiples modernities, secular and religious systems affect each other in considerable and comparable ways. In the field of public memory this impact seems particularly extensive. There are many communities which
use religious lexicon to […]
Post-War: Remembrance, Recollection, Reconciliation
Postgraduate and ECR Conference
Saturday 26 May 2018, 9am-5pm
University of Oxford
TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK
Keynote Speaker: Professor Marita Sturken (Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University)
This one-day interdisciplinary conference is the culmination of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation. Over […]
This special issue seeks to challenge the dominant role of traumatic memories in memory studies. At the Memory Studies Association conference in Copenhagen in December 2017, the conference’s opening panel posed the question whether studies of memory must focus on trauma. Whereas there is little doubt that coping with traumatic pasts has crucially influenced modern […]
The seventh European Remembrance Symposium will take place in the centennial year marking the end of the First World War. As citizens of Central and East-Central Europe, we do not wish to be driven by anniversaries or jubilees. Yet, we also cannot ignore the seminar year 1918.
The […]
Memory is constitutive for the formation of social entities and a crucial carrier of social and cultural identity. Remembrance and reconstruction of past events, historical figures and cultural struggles are invaluable for understanding the development of shared values or norms and the articulation and transformation of identity by collectives and individuals alike. In media saturated […]