Memory Studies Association

🗣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

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🔷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

🗣Upcoming dMSA Event!

Moderated by Dr Heather Proctor

📆November 28th, at 15.00 UTC +1

🔗For more information, and the registration link, please visit: bit.ly/44dJYJM

#dMSA #NewcastleUniversity #MemoryStudies #OnlineEvent

We’re investigating how Holocaust museums, memorial sites, libraries, and educational organisations use digital media in their work. Find out how you can get involved. 00:00 What does digital Holocaust memory look like today? 00:24 Why are we doing this? 01:08 What are the questions you ask people? Surveying Global Digital Holocaust Memory Practice

Be part of our groundbreaking work to help the sector better understand projects that educate about or commemorate the Holocaust with digital media and help to prevent the duplication of time and effort worldwide. Watch the video and find out how to get involved.

📢 #CFP – Special Issue Memory Studies: Memory & Resilience

Seeking proposals from MSA Prague 2025 participants & MSA members on how memories of crises shape resilience.

The issue welcomes theoretical and empirical papers, plus debates/interviews.

🔗https://bit.ly/3X3Wx6E

🗣Upcoming Seminar: Violence, Memory, Networks

The eight session of the seminar Violence, Memory, Networks will take place on 12th November, 2025, at 2.30 pm, exclusively online.

For more information, please visit: bit.ly/4nC4Y3

#MemoryStudies #UpcomingSeminar

The program for the international conference, Ordinary Men:Perpetrator Memory in Contemporary Spanish Culture, is now available. Registration has also opened.
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📅 CONF: Ordinary Men. Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture
4–5 Dec. | Essen

How do Spanish literature, film & culture represent perpetrators in the context of the Civil War & Franco Dictatorship? The conference explores concepts of complicity, bystanding & perpetration in Spanish cultural memory.

✨The researcher will work on the project Displacement and (Post)secular Memory: Contemporary Crises and Historical Legacies in Southeastern and East-Central Europe (MEMCRIS)!

📢 For the job description, requirements and application steps, please check out this link bit.ly/3JLBjY3

📚New Open PhD Position!

☀ The Institute of International Studies (IMS), Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, is opening a junior researcher/PhD student position for 30 months, with a start date 1.7.2026.

⏰Deadline: November 30th, 2025

#MSA #MemoryStudies #PhD #History

📚 Call for Book Chapters!

How do memory, identity, and storytelling intersect in an era shaped by technology and global interconnection?

🔗For more information, please visit: bit.ly/4oRNe5B

⚠Note: The book is under advanced contract with Bloomsbury Publishing.

📚 Honoring Wulf Kansteiner (1964–2025)

We have renamed our annual First Book Award in memory of Wulf Kansteiner — a scholar whose work continues to shape how we think about collective memory.

🕒 Deadline: Dec 15, 2025

🔗For more information, and how to submit: bit.ly/3JHWNoF

🤝The partnership works to understand and engage the diverse histories and community struggles for justice of diasporic Japanese populations, often known as Nikkei,
📅Deadline: November 15th, 2025

#MSA #MemoryStudies #Accountability

📢Call for Chapters Proposals!

🌟 The volume editors are members of Past Wrongs Future Choices, a global partnership focused on scholarship, archival work, education policy research, and museum exhibits.

❗ Particularly proposals from the global South are encouraged!

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🎙️ Memories of War – an online webinar by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Marking 80 years since WWII’s end, this event explores how we pass on the memory of wartime tragedies amid ongoing conflicts.

🔗 Register: bit.ly/3WqJcVC
#MemoryStudies #PublicHistory #WarMemory

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Nos complace anunciar que, debido a numerosas solicitudes, la fecha límite para envíos para el Congreso de la MSA 2026 en Buenos Aires ha sido extendido hasta el 31 de octubre de 2025.

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¡No se pierdan nuestras sesiones plenarias!

Dear MSA Community,

🗣We are pleased to announce that, due to many requests, the deadline for submissions to the MSA 2026 Conference in Buenos Aires has been extended until October 31, 2025.

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Don't miss our plenary sessions!

Excited to announce the virtual launch of our new book, 'The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London' in one week! Join our editors next Tuesday at 10:00-11:30 a.m. ET; 9:00-10:30 a.m. CT; 4:5-30 p.m. CST! @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @andypearce.bsky.social

Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

‪🕊️ The dMSA series returns!

🎙️ Moderator: Grażyna Baranowska
👥 Speakers: Silvana Mandolessi, Cath Collins, Ulrike Capdepón

Join us on October 21st to explore how memory can confront disappearance and advance truth, justice, and reparation.

🔗 Register now: bit.ly/46O35vW

Cómo enviar 115 hts es

Nos complace anunciar que, debido a numerosas solicitudes, la fecha límite para envíos para el Congreso de la MSA 2026 en Buenos Aires ha sido extendido hasta el 31 de octubre de 2025.

🔗 msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com/es/113-llama...

¡No se pierdan nuestras sesiones plenarias!

Dear MSA Community,

🗣We are pleased to announce that, due to many requests, the deadline for submissions to the MSA 2026 Conference in Buenos Aires has been extended until October 31, 2025.

🔗 msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com/72-call-for-...

Don't miss our plenary sessions!

💡 Part of the Academic Freedom in an International Context Series, the series is co-hosted by the ISA’s Academic Freedom Committee and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom

⏰Date: 28th October 2025| online

#MSA #MemoryStudies #Webinar

⭐Upcoming Webinar!

❗ Speakers of this panel will examine global trends, including the rise of the radical Right, while others will present what attacks on academic freedom look like within specific countries.

🗣Moderator/Chair: Carolyn Shaw- Chair, ISA’s Academic Freedom Committee

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MSA Buenos Aires 2026 Memory and Democracy 28 July - 1 August 2026 Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

🌍✨ ¡Últimos 3 días para enviar tu propuesta!
La convocatoria para la 10ª Conferencia Anual de la Memory Studies Association cierra pronto.
📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina
🗓 28 de julio – 1 de agosto de 2026
📚 Tema: Memoria y Democracia
⏰ Plazo: 15 de octubre de 2025
🔗 msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com

🌍✨ Just 3 Days Left to Submit!
The call for papers for the MSA 10th Annual Conference is closing soon!
📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina
🗓 28 July – 1 August 2026
📚 Theme: Memory and Democracy
⏰ Deadline: 15 October 2025
Submit your proposal now!
🔗 msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com

🕊️ The dMSA series returns!

🎙️ Moderator: Grażyna Baranowska
👥 Speakers: Silvana Mandolessi, Cath Collins, Ulrike Capdepón

Exploring how memory can confront disappearance and advance truth, justice, and reparation.

🔗 Register now: bit.ly/46O35vW

🎥 Through the lens of British artist Marcus Coates’s Apology to the Great Auk, a short film documenting an official apology to an extinct bird

⏰ Event Date: November 5th, 2025| 14:00-15:30

#MSA #MemoryStudies #Lecture #Grief #Justice

📢 Upcoming Lecture!

🗨️ This lecture considers what ecological apologies might contribute to widening our moral and political imagination, cultivating care across species boundaries, and envisaging more just multispecies futures.

❗Followed by a roundtable discussion and Q&A

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Topics may include (but are not limited to):
• Memories of reparative justice
• Monuments, museums, and digital remembrance
• Transnational struggles and symbols
• Crises, delays, and long-term effects of reparations

📩 Submit your title, abstract and short bio by 12 October 2025.