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The Regional Group Latin America of the Memory Studies Association in Solidarity with Colombia and Brazil
The Regional Group Latin America of the Memory Studies Association in Solidarity with Colombia and Brazil May 12th, 2021 Read in Spanish here. The Latin American Regional Group of the Memory Studies Association expresses its solidarity [...]
Minutes for the Executive Committee’s May meeting are up!
Executive Commitee Meeting Minutes The minutes for the Executive Committee's (EC) meeting of May 2021 are now available on the EC's page. Click here to see this month's (and past) minutes. Do you have questions, [...]
MSA First Book Award Shortlist Discounts!
MSA First Book Award Shortlist Discount For members of the MSA, we have recently updated the publication discount page. In particular, we can offer discounts on (most) the books shortlisted for the MSA [...]
CfP: MSA Africa Chapter Annual Conference 2021
Call for Abstracts MSA Africa Chapter Annual Conference 2021 "Memory (Studies) in Africa: State of the Field" November 24-25, 2021 Online Conference How do we represent the past to ourselves and [...]
Event Series on “Transitional Justice”
Event Series Transitional Justice Upcoming Panel: Remembering two Dictatorships? The Rivalry of Dealing with the Past in the Baltic States May 11, 2021, 6p.m. UTC+2 The "Transitional Justice" event series organised [...]
Minutes for the Executive Committee’s April meeting are up!
Executive Commitee Meeting Minutes The minutes for the Executive Committee's (EC) meeting of April 2021 are now available on the EC's page. Click here to see this month's (and past) minutes. Do you have questions, [...]
Contested Histories Onsite: The project has kicked off!
Contested Histories Onsite: The project has kicked off! Wherever you go in Europe, you’ll be walking by statues and other landmarks that try to tell you something about the past. But the way in which [...]
PoSoCoMeS Newsletter March 2021
Working Group Newsletter Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies Working Group (PoSoCoMeS) Issue 3, March 2021 The MSA Working Group PoSoCoMeS is happy to announce that the third issue of its newsletter was published [...]
MSA Presidential & Executive Committee 2021 Election Results
Election of Executive Board Members 2021 The online election polls were open from Sunday February 28th, to Sunday March 28th. There were three slates for the EC positions, and active MSA members could vote for up to two candidates [...]
PoSoCoMeS Conference 2023 – Tallinn
Patarei Prison Museum, Tallinn. © Kirsti Jõesalu Maarjamäe Memorial, Tallinn. © Martin Siplane and Estonian Institute of Historical Memory Museum of Freedom (Vabamu), Tallinn. © Ene Kõresaar PoSoCoMeS Conference in September 2023 Save [...]
Presidential & Executive Committee Elections! Coming up on February 28
Presidential & Executive Committee Elections 2021 Dear MSA members,The elections to our association's executive will be taking place as planned this Spring. The election period will begin on 28 February and continue until 28 March. During [...]
Minutes for the Executive Committee’s February meeting are up!
Executive Commitee Meeting Minutes The minutes for the Executive Committee's (EC) meeting of February 2021 are now available on the EC's page. Click here to see this month's (and past) minutes. Do you have questions, [...]
MSA condemns lawsuit against Holocaust historians
Memory Studies Association condemns lawsuit against Holocaust historians Memory Studies Association wyraża dezaprobatę wobec procesu wytoczonego historykom Holokaustu The Memory Studies Association stands for free scholarly inquiry, wherever its results may lead. It [...]
Zumkehr Lectures on Public Memory
Zumkehr Lectures on Public Memory In the Zumkehr Lectures, hosted by the University of Ohio, scholars from a number of disciplines and from all over the world examine the ways in which [...]
Launching: Digital MSA (dMSA)!
Launching dMSA Wednesday November 18, 6pm CET We are going live! The MSA is thrilled to announce a series of online events that will take place approximately once a month. Wednesday November [...]
Postdoctoral researcher ‘Digital Media History – Radio Archives in Central Europe, 1930-1960’
Postdoctoral researcher ‘Digital Media History – Radio Archives in Central Europe, 1930-1960’ Publication date 1 September 2020 Closing date 4 October 2020 Level of education PhD Hours 38 hours per week Salary indication €3,491 to €5,127 gross [...]
Call for Articles (DE)COMMEMORATION Making sense of contemporary calls for tearing down statues and renaming places
Call for articles: (DE)COMMEMORATION Making sense of contemporary calls for tearing down statues and renaming places Editors: Sarah Gensburger & Jenny Wüstenberg The toppling of the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol, [...]
Call for Papers INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE MSA NORDIC
INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE MSA NORDIC 29-30 October 2020, University of Copenhagen CALL FOR PAPERS The MSA Nordic is the regional network of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) in Northern Europe. The MSA is a [...]
Call for Papers Genealogies of Memory: The Holocaust between Global and Local Perspectives
Call for Papers Genealogies of Memory: The Holocaust between Global and Local Perspectives Warsaw, November 25-27, 2020 Submission deadline: 31 May 2020 The aim of the conference is to assess the current state of Holocaust memory research. The context [...]
Fourth Annual Conference Charlottesville 2020 – Cancellation Notice
!Important Notice!! Dear Colleagues, With greatest regret, we write to inform you of our decision to cancel this year's MSA conference, which was to take place from June 18-21 in Charlottesville. To be sure, those dates are [...]
Call for Applications- histoCON 2020- 75 years after WWII: Peace under construction?
Call for Applications- histoCON 2020- 75 years after WWII: Peace under construction? 6 – 9 May, 2020 EUREF Campus, Berlin, Germany Young people from all over the world are invited to look back and think ahead from 6 to [...]
CfP- Mnemonics 2020: Memory and Migration
Call for Papers -Mnemonics 2020: Memory and Migration The ninth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school UPDATE: postponed until August 2021 Hosted by Aarhus University, at the historical Sandbjerg Manor in Southern Denmark. The annual Mnemonics summer school [...]
CfP- Conference: 1945 – End of World War II. Current European and Global Perspectives
Call for Papers- Conference: 1945 – End of World War II. Current European and Global Perspectives September 17 to 18, 2020 Berlin, Catholic Academy in Berlin The year 1945 marks a turning point in world history. The defeat of [...]
Digital Holocaust Memory Roundtable Event
Digital Holocaust Memory Roundtable Event University of Sussex, Mon, 23 March 2020 16:00 – 18:00 GMT As Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism proliferate online, taking stock of how the digital may (or may not) be useful in perpetuating Holocaust memory [...]
Important Notice!
Dear Colleagues,Like every other organization—business, government, and academia—we are monitoring news of the Coronavirus spread with concern. In particular, we are trying to assess how this might affect our planned conference for June. Part of the problem, of course, [...]