The Polish Memory Studies Group, a regional group of the Memory Studies Association, invites nominations for an award for the best scholarly article in memory studies published in 2021 or 2022.

The Polish Memory Studies Group first recognized an award in 2019. The competition for the best scholarly article was first announced in 2021, for an article published in 2019 or 2020. The winner of the first edition was Jessica Robbins for her text ‘Expanding Personhood beyond Remembered Selves: the Sociality of Memory at an Alzheimer’s Center in Poland’.

In this year’s edition we would like to recognize scholarly articles in Polish memory studies that were published in 2021 or 2022 in a peer-reviewed journal. Eligible themes include, but are not limited to:

– Polish collective memory (e.g. state, regional, local, vernacular) and historical policy autobiographical memory, oral history;

– Memories of ethnic, national and religious minorities an Poland or the historical Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth;

– Memories of Polish diasporas; remembrance of Poland and/or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth among other émigré groups.

Submitted articles may be theoretical in nature or present the results of empirical studies, or both.

Memory Studies is multidisciplinary enterprise, thus competition entries can be articles in any scientific discipline and/or subdiscipline (e.g. anthropology, ethnology, psychology, cultural studies, sociology, literature, psychology, history, media, law and others) that deal with any aspects(s) of memory.

1. The text of the article must be submitted by email by 15 April 2023 in PDF format.  The file should contain information identifying the article, including the DOI or ISSN number of the journal along with the page numbers. Entries may only be submitted by the author(s) of the article. In case o texts with multiple authors, a statement of consent to participate in the competition is required from all co-authors. A form for this purpose can be obtained from the competition secretary Dr. Malgorzata Lukianow by emailing her at msapoland@gmail.com; this should be signed, scanned and sent with the submission.

2. Eligible articles must have been published in Polish or English in 2021 or 2022 in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. The date of the first publication of the text can be no earlier than 1 January 2021 and no later than 31 December 2022. For texts published “online first”, the date of the first (online) publication shall be considered binding.

3. The submitted article deals with selected issues in the field of memory studies and concerns the memory or memories of or about persons and/or communities, territories, material or intangible culture, or other matters related to Poland or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in any historical period.

4. The text submitted must be an original scholarly article and must not be a review, polemic or essay.

The author(s) of the winning text will be invited to discuss their publication during the 4th Polish Memory Studies Conference on 12-14 October 2023 in Poznan.

The results of the competition will be announced by 30 June 2023 at the lastest.

Dr Kamilla Biskupska, University of Opole

Prof. Dr. Simon Lewis, University of Bremen

Dr. Malgorzata Lukianow, Department of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Competition Secretary.