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Memory and Literature WG: Call for new members and participants!
Memory and Literature WG: Call for new members and participants! The Memory and Literature Working Group welcomes new members and participants interested in the relationship between literature and memory. Dedicated to fostering scholarly engagement in literary memory [...]
Call for Fellowships at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies 2025/2026
Call for Fellowships at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies 2025/2026 Deadline for submissions: 17 January 2025 The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invites applications for its fellowships for the academic year 2025/2026. [...]
Memory Scholars at Risk Fellowship: Renewed Collaboration with Gerda Henkel Foundation
Memory Scholars at Risk Fellowship: Renewed Collaboration with Gerda Henkel Foundation The Memory Studies Association (MSA) is proud to announce the renewal of our collaboration with the Gerda Henkel Foundation in support of the Memory Scholars at [...]
Call for Papers: A Polyphony of Emotions Thinking Affect in Heritage, Memory and Material Culture
Call for Papers: A Polyphony of Emotions Thinking Affect in Heritage, Memory and Material Culture 11th Annual Conference Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture Deadline for submissions: March 15th, 2025 For the 11th Annual [...]
Museums and Memory WG Inaugural Online Conference
Museums and Memory WG Inaugural Online Conference: “Museums, Memory, Politics” Online | 24-25 January 2025 The Museums and Memory Working Group is proud to announce that it will be hosting its first-ever conference on 24-25 January [...]
Book Spotlight: “Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others”
Book Spotlight Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others: The Materiality of Identity and Depots of Global History Editors: Jürgen Zimmerer , Kim Sebastian Todzi and Friederike Odenwald Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others is a thought-provoking [...]
Call for Papers: Women and the Making of Art History
Call for Papers: Women and the Making of Art History Women’s History Today Deadline for submissions: January 10, 2025 Since the publication of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971), feminist art [...]
New Publication by Lorena Ortiz Cabrero and Aline Sierp in the Italian Political Science Review
New Publication by Lorena Ortiz Cabrero and Aline Sierp in the Italian Political Science Review "Memory, post-fascism and the far-right" We are pleased to spotlight a recent open access publication by Lorena Ortiz Cabrero, [...]
Book Spotlight: “Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization”
Book Spotlight Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization: Doing Memory Studies With Ann Rigney Editors: Astrid Erll , Susanne Knittel and Jenny Wüstenberg Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization provides an accessible overview of cultural memory studies, a field substantially shaped by Ann Rigney. In [...]
Call for Papers: MSA Forward 2025
Call for Papers: MSA Forward 2025 July 14, 2025 | Prague, Czech Republic Deadline for submissions: January 26, 2025 The Memory Studies Association (MSA) is pleased to announce the MSA Forward 2025 workshop, a dedicated forum [...]
Call for Papers: Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media
Call for Papers: Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media 29–30 January 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2025 This conference aims to expand the boundaries of life writing studies [...]
PhD Studentship 2025: University of Stirling
PhD Studentship 2025: University of Stirling The Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, Faculty of Arts & Humanities University of Stirling Deadline for submissions: December 20, 2024 They are recruiting 2-4 PhD studentships, fully [...]
Call for Papers: Routledge Companion to Media and Memory
Call for Papers: Routledge Companion to Media and Memory Edited by Joanne Garde-Hansen and Red Chidgey Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2024 "We are seeking chapter proposals for the Routledge Companion to Media and Memory, edited [...]
MSA Centers Network Meeting 2024 Convenes in Nottingham
Memory Studies Research Centers Meeting 2024 Convenes in Nottingham From November 21 to 22, Nottingham Trent University’s Initiative for Advancing Interdisciplinary Memory Studies hosted the MSA Memory Studies Research Centers Meeting 2024, bringing together 42 participants from 15 [...]
Workshop – Sport and Collective Memory: New Directions
Sport and Collective Memory: New Directions/ Sport et mémoire collective : Nouvelles orientations Workshop | Paris, May 19-20 2025 Deadline for submissions: January 15th, 2025 2024 highlighted the strong links between sport and collective memory. The [...]
International Conference “From Migration to Postmigrant Society: Memory, Identity and Social Inclusion”
International Conference "From Migration to Postmigrant Society: Memory, Identity and Social Inclusion" Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University, 20-22 August 2025 CfP Deadline: February 28, 2025 Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at [...]
Webinar: Contested Histories and Monuments in Teacher Training
Webinar: Contested histories and monuments in teacher training EuroClio | European Association of History Educators Online | November 27th, 16.00 PM - 17:30 PM The Monument(al) Challenges webinar series is designed to equip educators with the [...]
Mohammed Muharram: MSA Memory Scholars at Risk Fellow
A Fellowship Story Mohammed Muharram: MSA Memory Scholars at Risk Fellow Photo: Dr. Mohammed Muharram, copyright: Dr. Mohammed Muharram. After receiving his PhD in 2012 in Anglophone Postcolonial Studies from the [...]
2024 Gerda Henkel Travel Grant (Lima)
A Fellowship Story 2024 Gerda Henkel Travel Grant (Lima) It was a typically beautiful spring day in 2024 in Austria. I sat by my large windows, listening to birdsong, dreaming about my future, [...]
Call for Contributions: Slow Memory and Beyond in Porto 2025
Call for Contributions: Slow Memory and Beyond in Porto 2025 Slow Memory COST Action (CA20105) Capstone Conference in Porto, 2-5 July 2025 Deadline for submissions: 31 January, 2025 "From 2021 to 2025, the COST Action “Slow [...]
Wasif Qayyum – 2024 Gerda Henkel Travel Grant (Lima)
A Fellowship Story Wasif Qayyum - 2024 Gerda Henkel Travel Grant (Lima) Working on Amazon River was once a wish that I first imagined during my first Master’s program in Pakistan. The [...]
Aliaksei Lastouski: MSA Memory Scholars at Risk Fellow
A Fellowship Story Aliaksei Lastouski: MSA Memory Scholars at Risk Fellow The first time I visited Lund University was at the end of January 2020. I was invited as one of the [...]
MSA Teaching Survey
MSA Teaching Survey The survey is open until 17th November 2024. Do you teach (or are you keen to teach) courses or topics related to Memory Studies? Would you be interested to connect with others to consider [...]
Call for Papers: Special issue of Memory Studies Review
Call for Papers: Remembering the Reproductive Body: Narratives of Historical Transmission, Eugenics, and Epigenetics Special issue of Memory Studies Review Deadline for submissions: February 1st, 2025. Co-Editors: Alys Weinbaum (University of Washington) and Julia Wurr (University [...]
Call for Articles: The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture
Call for Articles: "Nationalism(s) in the 21st Century" The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series, Issue 1/2025 Deadline for submissions: March 31st 2025. The editorial team of The Polish Journal of the Arts [...]