Memory Studies Association
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Professional Association for Memory Scholars
Based in the Netherlands with members from more than 40 countries.
Join the MSA: http://goo.gl/GM5uBb
Based in the Netherlands with members from more than 40 countries.
Join the MSA: http://goo.gl/GM5uBb
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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
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December 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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
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💡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
💡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
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
#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
💡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
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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
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December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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
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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
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
December 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
#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
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
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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
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
December 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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
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
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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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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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December 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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
brill.com/display/titl...
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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🕯️ 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.
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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.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🕯️ 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
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.
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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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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...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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!
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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
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🔷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
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🗣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
🔷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
🔗Interested? 👉 bit.ly/4p0rUvf
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
🔷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
🔗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
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
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🗣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
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
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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.
Surveying Global Digital Holocaust Memory Practice
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?
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November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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
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
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
📢 #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
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 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
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🗣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 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
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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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November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The program for the international conference, Ordinary Men:Perpetrator Memory in Contemporary Spanish Culture, is now available. Registration has also opened.
www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...
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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.
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.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
📅 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.
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.
📚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
☀ 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
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📚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
☀ 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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📚 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.
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
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
November 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
📚 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
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
📢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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🌟 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!
bit.ly/49n6y63
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
📢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!
bit.ly/49n6y63
🌟 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!
bit.ly/49n6y63
🎙️ 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
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
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
🎙️ 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
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!
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October 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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!
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¡No se pierdan nuestras sesiones plenarias!
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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!
🗣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!
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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!
🗣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!
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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
October 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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