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Memory Studies Association
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Professional Association for Memory Scholars
Based in the Netherlands with members from more than 40 countries.
Join the MSA: http://goo.gl/GM5uBb
🗣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
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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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
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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.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
📚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
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 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.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📚 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
November 1, 2025 at 7:22 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!

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October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
🎙️ 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
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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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
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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!
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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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
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Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
‪🕊️ 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
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 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!
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
⭐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

bit.ly/43hlVJm
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🌍✨ 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!
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October 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
🕊️ 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
October 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
📢 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

bit.ly/3KWuVxd
October 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🕊️ CfP: Memories of Reparative Justice

The Global Memories Working Group (GMWG) invites advocates, artists, and academics to explore the intersections of memory and reparative justice at the 10th Annual MSA Conference in Buenos Aires.

🔗http://bit.ly/4nXvbuR
October 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🕊️ CfP

As we mark 80 years since the end of WWII, this conference invites scholars to explore how its sites of memory are shaped, contested, and reinterpreted in changing political and cultural contexts.

Submit your proposal in English, German, or Polish by 10th October.

🔗http://bit.ly/46Ttzut
October 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
🚨 There's still time to submit your proposal!

Be part of the 10th Annual MSA Conference:

📌 Memory and Democracy
📍 Buenos Aires, Arg.
🗓 NEW DATES: 28 July – 1 August 2026
📝 Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2025

👉 Details & submissions via the conference website: msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
✨Upcoming Seminar Session!

🔎The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20) invites you to the 7th session of the seminar "Violence, Memory, Networks-Interdisciplinary Connections"!

❗Registration is free, but mandatory!

bit.ly/3VO25Bx

#MSA #Seminar #Violence
October 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🌍 Masterclass @ Radboud University

👤 Prof. Stef Craps
📅 Nov 4, 2025 | 16:00–17:30

How can the arts help us resist ecological amnesia and process environmental grief?

📚 bit.ly/3W2ruYt

#Masterclass #EnvironmentalHumanities #MemoryStudies
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
⭐ Upcoming MSA Online Assembly!

🤝This will be an opportunity to learn more about the new initiatives the MSA is developing for the ECA community and to get involved in shaping the kinds of support we want to build together in the coming months!

🗯️http://bit.ly/3KrEsw5
September 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
📢 #CfP: Ordinary Men: Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture
📍 Duisburg-Essen, Dec 4–5, 2025
📝 Deadline: Oct 8, 2025

Exploring perpetrator memory in Spanish culture — beyond the victim–perpetrator binary. Formats: talks, papers, and roundtables. No fee.

🔗http://bit.ly/3KBURxW
September 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM