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 […]

MSA Mentorship Program2023-11-22T20:40:24+02:00

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 […]

Best Paper Award2023-11-21T16:05:48+02:00

New Honorary Doctor: Professor Astrid Erll

New Honorary Doctor

Professor Astrid Erll, from Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt

Professor Astrid Erll with Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

With profound happiness, we congratulate Professor Astrid Erll, a MSA’s Advisory Board […]

New Honorary Doctor: Professor Astrid Erll2023-11-21T16:24:04+02:00

Book Spotlight: Rebuilding Community – Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality

Book Spotlight

Rebuilding Community

Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality

Author: Shenila Khoja-Moolji

Cover for Rebuilding Community Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath […]

Book Spotlight: Rebuilding Community – Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality2023-11-07T18:35:49+02:00

Book Spotlight: MICROHISTORIES OF MEMORY Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany

Book Spotlight

Microhistories of Memory: Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany

Author: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

Microhistories of Memory: Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany

The West German novel, radio play, and television series, Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, […]

Book Spotlight: MICROHISTORIES OF MEMORY Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany2023-10-11T16:58:48+02:00

Book Spotlight: DE-COMMEMORATION Removing Statues and Renaming Places

Book Spotlight

DE-COMMEMORATION: Removing Statues and Renaming Places

Edited by Sarah Gensburger and Jenny Wüstenberg

In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is […]

Book Spotlight: DE-COMMEMORATION Removing Statues and Renaming Places2023-10-11T16:27:08+02:00

CONFERENCE LIMA 2024 CFP

Eighth Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association (MSA)

“Memories in Transit”

Lima, Peru, 18 to 20 July 2024

The conference portal is now closed for applications.

Call for papers

The Memory Studies Association (MSA) welcomes proposals for its eighth annual conference, to be held in […]

CONFERENCE LIMA 2024 CFP2024-04-13T16:12:28+02:00
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