Memory Studies Association

2026 AUAC Conference: Who is Responsible for the Archives? Who is Responsible for the Archives? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethics in a Digital Age When: Friday 26 June 2026, 9:00–5:00 pm Where: Aston University campus in Birmingham, UK, and online (hybr...

Consider submitting a proposal for this upcoming hybrid conference on Archives and Ethics! Experts from all fields are welcome! padlet.com/dturner2_23/... @astonuniversity.bsky.social @astonpress.bsky.social

🗣 Upcoming dMSA Event:

📅 24 February 2026 | ⏰ 16:00 (online)
🎙 Moderated by Dr. Andrej Mirčev

Interested? Register here: bit.ly/3OLampq

📚 The PoSoCoMeS MSA Group invites you to a book seminar!

👉Join us for an engaging discussion on populism, memory, and democratic futures in the region.

🔗https://bit.ly/4rkfxet

📖Reading Group!

💡On 27 February, the Memory Studies Association’s MAWG is hosting an online reading group on Remembering Hope: The Cultural Afterlife of Protest by Ann Rigney.

🎤Participants are encouraged to read the book’s introduction and a chapter of their choice.

🔗https://bit.ly/4bX8lA9

Culture War in Saxony-Anhalt: How the AfD wants to reshape cultural policy & suppress decolonial remembrance. New text on blog „dekolonial-erinnern.de“

@michmo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

👉 dekolonial-erinnern.de/culture-as-a...

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2026.
Notification of Results: Second half of March 2026.

For more information, please visit: msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com

Dear Community,

We are pleased to announce that the MSA has a limited number of conference grants to support attendance at our upcoming conference in Buenos Aires 2026.

To apply, please complete the official application form: bit.ly/4k1OB0j

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⚠All presenters at the conference must hold an active MSA membership: www.memorystudiesassociation.org/membership-l...

🥂We look forward to meeting you all in July in Buenos Aires!

Dear MSA Community,

We are pleased to announce that registration for the MSA 2026 conference is open until April 5th, 2026!

🔷For more information and to register, visit: msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com

🎓 MSA Early Career Online Skills Workshops Series 2026

🔹 Workshop 1: How to get your first book published
📅 Wednesday, 4 February 2026
⏰ 16.00–18.00 (CET) | 💻 Online

🗓️ Deadline: Wednesday, 28 January 2026

🔗For more information, please visit: bit.ly/3NzgsbV

Presented to Hasmik Knyazyan for “Digital Homelands: Facebook as a Grassroots Community Archive in Response to Political Erasure in Artsakh.”
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Top 2 Most downloaded article in 2025 Memory Studies Review – your interest got piqued by:

Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Collective Memory?

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Top 2 Most downloaded article in 2025 Memory Studies Review – your interest got piqued by:

Digital Afterlife and the Future of Collective Memory

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An Honorable Mention goes to Simina Dragoș for “Mnemonic Justice by Report: The Constraint of the Radical Political Imagination in Post-1989 Romania.”

👏 Congratulations to both!

The jury praised its theoretical depth, methodological rigor, and timely contribution to debates on digital memory, community archiving, and forced displacement.

🏆 2025 MSA Best Paper Award

We award the 2025 Best Paper Award to Hasmik Knyazyan for “Digital Homelands: Facebook as a Grassroots Community Archive in Response to Political Erasure in Artsakh.”

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⚠The Virtual Drinks are open to all MSA members who consider themselves Early Career Academics, across the diverse roles and pathways that term encompass.

🔗Please register for the event via the following link: bit.ly/3Z7JKko

ECA Support Committee

🎆Invitation to the Early Career New Year's drink

🥂To celebrate the beginning of the new year, postdocs and PhD students are invited to join the Online Virtual Drinks for ECAs, which will take place on Monday, 12 January, from 16:00 to 17:30 CET (Brussels time).

Plural remembrance: Analysis of Bundestag hearing on Germany‘s new memorial concept from decolonial perspective

@michmo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @adamblackler.bsky.social @profdanhicks.bsky.social @mrothberg.bsky.social
👉 dekolonial-erinnern.de/memorial-con...

#OfInterestOfMSAMembers

💡For this special issue of the Asian and African Studies Journal, the editors welcome proposals that reflect on the ambivalent character of silence.

🔗 For more information, please visit: bit.ly/4oWzlCD

One of these PhDs is geared towards Cultural Memory Studies - I must have a ton of former students who might consider applying?! (Let me know if you need a recommendation) @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @slowmemo.bsky.social "memorystudies lnkd.in/ejSDwmhJ

#OfInterestToMSAMembers

Assistant Professor in European Political History since 1900
📍 Maastricht University, the Netherlands
🗓 Application deadline: 31 January 2026

For more information, please visit: bit.ly/3MA5Wkp

The Handbook on Global Oral History
A remarkable handbook on the concept of Global Oral History as the collection of life stories and the guarantor of meaning in human experience.

In memory of Selma Leydesdorff
@thewha.bsky.social ‪ @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Memory Studies in the Nordic Countries: A Handbook

With utmost pride we announce our first Handbook in the field of Memory Studies! A stepping stone to diversify and globalize the field.

@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uarctic.bsky.social

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Kansteiner left a profound intellectual legacy. In this interview, he reflects on the future of memory in the postdigital age and the evolving role of AI in cultural memory.

🕯️ Posthumous Interview Release

We are honoured to share a final conversation between Wulf Kansteiner (1964–2025) and Johanna Vollmeyer, conducted in June 2025 and now published posthumously in Rec Lit.

🔗 reclit.hypotheses.org

Thick Mapping and the Local History of Urban Regeneration in North Belfast - Urban Matters Journal The Oldpark Carnegie Library in North Belfast has been closed since 2010, but is currently being brought “back to life” as part of a community-led regeneration initiative. The library stands in a part...

New short research article out in Urban Matters. It is a piece on thick mapping in North Belfast, drawing on ongoing research at the Oldpark Carnegie Library and local memories of regeneration. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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I am thrilled to announce the digital launch of our new book, Redefining Monuments! 📘 🎉 The @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social will host the event online on 11 December. José and I will be in conversation with Britt Baillie, @profdanhicks.bsky.social and Gal Kirn to discuss how we can redefine monuments!

🗣Next dMSA Event coming up!

🔷Memory Policies and Their Role in Enhancing Democratic Resilience: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

📆Join us on 2 December at 16.00 UTC

🔗https://bit.ly/4pbqcqW

Exibir tradução

🔷The international conference “Scattered, Tracked, Connected” invites museum professionals, collection curators, historians, art historians, and heritage specialists to reflect on the fragmented, displaced, or deliberately dispersed nature of cultural heritage.

🔗Interested? 👉 bit.ly/4p0rUvf