DIGITAL MSA (dMSA)

Dear MSA Members,

The MSA announces a call for proposals for the dMSA online events for the academic year 2025/2026

dMSA is the MSA’s online events – roundtables and dialogues – devoted to current discussions in memory studies. Thanks to the MSA’s social media and online channels, they reach a large audience within the Association and beyond. We are open to all memory-related issues and to proposals for events. Especially welcome are proposals including the participation of researchers and practitioners, and concerning one of the following fields.

  • memory studies and environmental/ecological challenges
  • memory scholars responding to current wars and conflicts
  • decolonizing memory
  • reflections on memory and democracy
  • memory studies in the age of populism
  • reflections on memory regions and regional memory studies
  • new methodological approaches in memory studies
  • memory studies and artificial intelligence

For the academic year 2025/2026, we accept proposals from all MSA members. Submissions should include:

  • Suggested date of the event (from September 2025 to June 2026)
  • Preliminary title with a short (ca. 150-300 words) description of the topic
  • Short (ca. 100-150 words) bios of the panellists and the convenor

Rules:

  • organizers of dMSA sessions should be members of the MSA
  • dMSA does not accept individual paper proposals

We aim to have fruitful discussions that are inspiring for the MSA community. Therefore, we offer support in organizing the event via our Teams account, streaming it on our YT channel, which currently has almost 600 subscribers, and announcements via our social media, reaching several thousand observers. Cooperation with other institutions is possible.

Please submit the proposals to dMSA@memorystudiesassociation.org by May 31, 2025 for events taking place between September 2025 and December 2025, and by September 30, for events between January 2026 and June 2026.

Scroll down to see our upcoming and past events!

Upcoming Event:

Archived Events:

Current Debates on the Memory-Activism Nexus: Perspectives from the Memory and Activism Working Group Panel #2

Current Debates on the Memory-Activism Nexus: Perspectives from the Memory and Activism Working Group Panel #2, moderated by: Alexander Ulrich Thygesen

Was held on: 07/03/2025 3:00pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Marit van de Warenburg,
Pablo Pamplona,
Patrick Peralta,
Yara Haskiel.

Is AI the future of collective memory?

Is AI the future of collective memory?, moderated by: Frédéric Clavert and Sarah Gensburger

Was held on: 25/02/2025 2:30pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Alina Volynskaya,
Julien Schuh,
Samuel Merrill,
Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden

Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine

Monuments and Territory: War Memorials in Russian-Occupied Ukraine, moderated by: Violeta Davoliūtė

Was held on: 06/02/2025 4:00pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Mischa Gabowitsch,
Mykola Homanyuk

The Transnational Aspect of Balkan Memories within Turmoils in Ukraine and Palestine

The Transnational Aspect of Balkan Memories within Turmoils in Ukraine and Palestine, moderated by: Agata Domachowska

Was held on: 08/01/2025 3:00pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Arban Mehmeti,
Francesco Trupia,
Monika Bobako

Book Launch Roundtable: Peace and the Politics of Memory

Book Launch Roundtable: Peace and the Politics of Memory, moderated by: Orli Fridman

Was held on: 03/12/2024 5:00pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Johanna Mannergren
Annika Björkdahl
Susanne Buckley-Zistel
Stefanie Kappler
Timothy Williams

Current Debates on the Memory-Activism Nexus: Perspectives from the Memory and Activism Working Group Panel #1

Current Debates on the Memory-Activism Nexus: Perspectives from the Memory and Activism Working Group - Panel #1, moderated by: Clara Vlessing

Was held on: 22/11/2024 3:00pm, in cooperation with: MSA Memory and Activism Working Group

Speakers:

Vasiliki Belia
Silas Udenze
Paula Tortosa

Writing a New Textbook on Memory Studies

Writing a New Textbook on Memory Studies, moderated by: Aline Sierp

Was held on: 06/11/2024 5:00pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Astrid Erll,
Jie-Hyun Lim

Claiming the People’s Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century. Online Book Launch and Discussion

Claiming the People's Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century. Online Book Launch and Discussion, moderated by: Anthe Baele

Was held on: 04/10/2024 3:30pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Walderez Ramalho,
Eline Mestdagh,
Johana Wyss,
Pia Schramm

Conspiratorial Memory on the Far-Right: “Memory-Holing” and Ephemerality on 4cha

dMSA Spring 2024 session 3: Conspiratorial Memory on the Far-Right: “Memory-Holing” and Ephemerality on 4chan, moderated by: Phillip Stenmann Baun

Was held on: 06/05/2024 4:00pm, in cooperation with: Aarhus University

Speakers:

Phillip Stenmann Baun
Daniel Bach

Artistic Activism and Memory: The Matapacos Statue Intervention in Santiago de Chile

dMSA Spring 2024 session 2: Artistic Activism and Memory: The Matapacos statue intervention in Santiago de Chile, moderated by: Alexander Ulrich Thygesen

Was held on: 05/04/2024 3:30pm, in cooperation with: Aarhus University

Speakers:

Marcel Solá
Pablo Zamorano
Terri Gordon-Zolov
Eric Zolov

When Memory Activism Meets Politics: The Bureaucracy of Commemoration – #1 dMSA 2024

dMSA Spring 2024 session 1: When Memory Activism Meets Politics: The Bureaucracy of Commemoration, moderated by: Thea Bladt

Was held on: 28/02/2024 2:00pm, in cooperation with: Aarhus University

Speakers:

Leroy Lucas
Sara Dybris McQuaid

Post-Socialist Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective: dMSA Series of Webinars

dMSA Series of Webinars: Post-Socialist Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective, moderated by: Professor Sara Jones

Was held on: 09/06/2023 3:00pm, in cooperation with: UK Arts & Humanities Research Council

Speakers:

Ioana Luca
Ute Hirsekorn
Sofia Poulia

Material culture and monuments of Post-Socialism: dMSA Series of Webinars

dMSA Series of Webinars: Material culture and monuments of Post-Socialism, moderated by: Professor Sara Jones

Was held on: 19/05/2023 3:00pm, in cooperation with: UK Arts & Humanities Research Council

Speakers:

Anna Glew
Oleksandra Nenko
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska

Migrants in Post-socialist Britain: dMSA Series of Webinars

dMSA Series of Webinars: Migrants in Post-socialist Britain, moderated by: Professor Sara Jones

Was held on: 11/05/2023 2:00pm, in cooperation with: UK Arts & Humanities Research Council

Speakers:

Dimitra Gkitsa
Charlotte Galpin
Maren Rohe
Špela Drnovšek Zorko

Digitally Enhancing Learning Experiences of the Imperial War Museums’ New Holocaust Galleries

Digitally Enhancing Learning Experiences of the Imperial War Museums’ New Holocaust Galleries, moderated by: Stephan Jaeger

Was held on: 25/04/2023 5:00pm, in cooperation with: Imperial War Museums and Memory Working Group

Speakers:

Clare Lawlor
Anil Glendinning
Stef Smith
Victoria Grace Walden
Jaya Carrier

Football, War and Memory

Football, War and Memory, moderated by: Jelena Đureinović

Was held on: 18/01/2023 5:00pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Olga Ruzhelnyk
Mahfoud Amara
Dario Brentin

MSA Mentorship Programme: Launch & Roundtable

MSA Mentorship Programme: Launch & Roundtable, moderated by: Catherine Gilbert, Jenny Wüstenberg

Was held on: 22/09/2022 4:30pm, in cooperation with:

Speakers:

Wulf Kansteiner
Hannah Scott
Ethel Tungohan

The Future of Atrocity Memory

'The Future of Atrocity Memory:' Dirk Moses in conversation with Charlotte Wiedemann and Wulf Kansteiner, moderated by: Uses of the Past, Aarhus University

Was held on: 24/08/2022 2:00pm, in cooperation with: Uses of the Past, Aarhus University

Speakers:

A. Dirk Moses
Charlotte Wiedemann
Wulf Kansteiner

Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to Remember, Dancing to Forget

Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to Remember, Dancing to Forget, moderated by: Clare Parfitt

Was held on: 07/05/2022 9:00pm, in cooperation with: Performance and Memory Working Group

Speakers:

Janet Schroeder
Elizabeth Anaya
Aoife Sadlier
Ray Batchelor
María Gabriela López-Yánez
Terry Bright Kweku Ofosu
Kirsty Kay
Declan Patrick
Elina Djebbari
Priya A. Thomas
Leslie Satin
Laura Steil
Elena Benthaus

Crises, Memory, and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

Crises, Memory, and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa, moderated by: -

Was held on: 06/12/2021 2:00pm, in cooperation with: MSA Nordic

Speakers:

Toufoul Abou-Hodeib (University of Oslo)

Sarah Awad (Aalborg University)

Sune Haugbolle (Roskilde University)

Moderator: Nadim Khoury (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)