Call for Nominations: 2024 MSA Elections
Call for Nominations
Presidential & Executive, Ethics, and Financial Committees
Elections 2024
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In Memoriam: Jan Assmann (1938-2024)
In Memoriam: Jan Assmann (1938-2024)
The field of memory studies has lost a charismatic founding figure. Jan Assmann died on Monday 19 February 2024. He was 85.
Jan Assmann’s landmark study of cultural memory, Das kulturelle Gedächtnis, was published in 1992 and immediately welcomed across German academia as a new ‘paradigm’ of studying […]
Journal Spotlight: Memory, Mind & Media
Journal Spotlight: Memory, Mind & Media
Latest Volume: Communicating Memory Matters
Cambridge University Press
Memory, Mind & Media (MMM) explores the impact of media and technology on individual, social and cultural remembering and forgetting. This agenda-setting journal fosters […]
Young Researchers Conference: Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from the Global South’
Young Researchers’ Conference
Trauma and Memory Studies: Responses from the Global South
20th January, 2024
Time: 4:50pm – 5:50pm IST/ 11:20am – 12:20pm GMT.
Book Launch: Critical Memory Studies
Online Book Launch
Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches
Edited by: Brett Ashley Kaplan
Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection […]
Early Career Researcher Training School in Belgrade
Early Career Researcher Training School in Belgrade
Slow Memory ECR Training School: Belgrade May 27-28, 2024
Organized by Orli Fridman and Jovan Ivanovic
“Theoretical approaches to Slow Memory”
The Slow Memory Cost Action invites applications from junior scholars and PhD students for our 2024 training school that will focus on […]
Book Spotlight: “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis”
Book Spotlight
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory – Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis
Edited by: Orli Fridman and Sarah Gensburger
This […]
MSA Mentorship Program
MSA’s Mentorship Program
Deadline for Applications: Monday, December 18th, 2023
Dear MSA Members,
The current co-ordinators of the MSA Mentorship Program, Dr Catherine Gilbert and Professor Ruramisai Charumbira, are delighted to invite applications from prospective mentors and mentees […]
Best Paper Award
MSA’s Best Paper Award 2023
We are happy to announce that the results of the MSA’s Best Paper Awards 2023 are finally out!
Congratulations, Molly Anderson, who won the prize with her paper titled: “Texturing Absence: A Geography of a Disappeared Woodstock Beach”.
The papers were assessed by our Advisory […]