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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How did Redfern become a centre of Aboriginal Black Power? Seth Dias examines the spatial politics of activism, community and land rights in Redfern, 1967–1972. Wed 30 Sep | 11:00 (UK) | Online Register: forms.gle/kVeKWwMH9jvT...

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The Spatial Politics of Aboriginal Black Power in Redfern, 1967-1972

In this online seminar, Seth Dias explores the spatial politics of Aboriginal Redfern in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The late 1960s saw the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern emerge as a nucleus of Ab...

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📢 The MSA 2027 Conference Portal is now OPEN for submissions! We are excited to invite scholars, researchers, practitioners, and memory activists to submit proposals for our Annual Conference, taking place 14–18 June 2027 at Lund University, Sweden. 🔗Check it out: msalund2027.dryfta.com

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The CFP for the @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social 2027 conference is now open - the theme is Memory, Responsibility and Hope! please consider proposing a panel, paper, roundtable, workshop or play! www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-pap...

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2027 - LUND - Memory Studies Association

MSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 14-18 JUNE 2027, LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN Memory, Responsibility, Hope CONFERENCE PORTAL WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON CALL FOR PAPERS It is a well-established understanding wi...

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Memories of German colonialism: Deconstructing myth „Clean Schutztruppe“ by @boellafrica.bsky.social @boell.de w/ Nancy Rushohora (U Dar es Salaam), Bulami Fonyuy (U Bamenda), Christian Stachelbeck (ZMSBw), Matthias Häussler (U Bochum), Teresa Koloma-Beck (BW-Uni). calendar.boell.de/en/event/myt...

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The myth of a "clean Schutztruppe" Colonial violence and its afterlives

The event will take place at Miriam-Makeba-Hall of the "Berlin Global Village", Am Sudhaus 2 in 12053 Berlin.German colonial rule was characterized by military violence, coercion, racial hierarchies a...

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Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

What does "Never Again" — "Nunca más" mean in light of ongoing violence and atrocities? Whose history is remembered, and which memory counts? Can we learn from history? What if history 'repeats itself'? Crucial debates in Buenos Aires w/ @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social msabuenosaires2026.dryfta.com

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Masja_@_Brill @masjah.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

De Gruyter Brill’s acquisitions editor is present at the Memory Studies Association conference in Buenos Aires. Stop by for a chat and learn about our blossoming portfolio www.brill.com/MOME www.brill.com/HSMS www.brill.com/MESR @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social

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Masja_@_Brill @masjah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

With utmost pride we published our first Handbook in Memory Studies – focusing on what the European North uniquely contributes to the toolbox of Memory Studies. Latin America, as well as Southeast Asia, and East Asian perspectives will follow soon! (www.brill.com/HSMS) @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies

"Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies" published on 13 Oct 2025 by Brill.

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🗣 Call for Applications | Visegrad Scholarship at Blinken OSA Archivum (2026/2027) 📍 Host Institution: Blinken OSA Archivum (Budapest, Hungary) & International Visegrad Fund 💶 Grant: €3,000 for an 8-week research stay 📅 Research Theme: Naming Reality 📨 Application Deadline: July 25th, 2026

Call for applications: Visegrad scholarship at the Blinken OSA Archivum
- Organized by the International Visegrad Fund and the Blinken OSA Archivum
- Application deadline: July 25th, 2026

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Masja_@_Brill @masjah.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New special issue of Memory Studies Review! Post-Socialism, Migration and Memory in Britain and Beyond, edited by Charlotte Galpin and Jenny Wüstenberg brill.com/view/journal... @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @bho.bsky.social @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

📢 #CfP This interdisciplinary conference explores Jewish life in the first decade after the Holocaust, focusing on how survivors rebuilt communities, identities, relationships, and everyday life in the aftermath of destruction. 📨 Submission deadline: 1 August 2026 🔗 bit.ly/4vGvWLV

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📢Upcoming Seminar 🎙 Presentations: Woohe Kim: Remembering the Past, Building Just Futures: Temporal Praxis in Youth Activism on the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Issue Jiaqi Liang: Conditional Encounters with Difficult Pasts: Local Communities at Dark Heritage Sites in China

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📢 Upcoming dMSA Event | Roundtable Discussion This event explores how memories of migration, displacement, violence, and shifting borders shape contemporary populist politics across Eastern and Central Europe. www.memorystudiesassociation.org/event/memory...

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🗣 Call for Papers | Conference "Gender and Violence in Historical Perspective: Social Practices and Discourses" 📍 Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland 📅 3–5 December 2026 📨 Submission deadline: 15 June 2026 #CfP #memorystudies

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

📢 #CfP Intimate Memory, Institutional Memory: Reframing Holocaust Commemorations 🔗 Full CFP & submission details: www.memorystudiesassociation.org/wp-content/u... #CfP #MemoryStudies #Holocaust

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

📢 #CfP This interdisciplinary conference explores the intersections of food, memory, identity, trauma, migration, and cultural heritage. 🔗https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CFP_Food-and-Memory_UniSG.pdf

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John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Come to Glasgow for ICOM-7, the 7th International Conference on Memory, July 2027! Details below. It'll be my 5th ICOM and my 2nd on organizing committee, and we're fixing a brilliant event, keen to expand the range beyond our core psych/ neuro/ cognitive topics so do sign up and please circulate!

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Upcoming DMSA Event This roundtable explores how contested memories are negotiated in the linguistic landscapes of urban public spaces through a sociolinguistic perspective. 🔗https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/event/exploring-contested-memories-through-linguistic-landscape-studies/

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

MSA 2026 Elections 🗳️ MSA members can cast their votes from May 4 to June 1, 2026. This year’s elections include the following open positions: 🔹 President (Elect) — 1 position 🔹 Executive Committee — 2 positions 🔹 Ethics Committee — 1 position 🔹 Finance Committee — 1 position

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

📣Open Position | Associate Professor | Italian Heritage, History and Cultural Studies 📍University of Toronto | Faculty of Information (60%) / Department of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies (40%) 📆 Application deadline: 25 May 2026 | Start date: 1 July 2026

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Congratulations to author Alice von Bieberstein, whose book Congratulations to author Alice von Bieberstein, whose book TEMPTATIONS IN RUIN has received an honorable mention for the MSA First Book Award, granted by @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social! Learn more about the book: bit.ly/4wfWgxJ

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

🗣Wulf Kansteiner MSA First Book Award 2026 — Results The MSA is pleased to announce the winner of the Wulf Kansteiner MSA First Book Award 2026, co-sponsored by the Memory Studies journal. 🏆 Winner: Astrid Rasch — Intimate Afterlives of Empire: Memory and Decolonisation in Autobiography

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🗣Upcoming PoSoCoMeS Event! This session explores how history becomes “sacralized” in times of crisis, particularly in contemporary Eastern Europe. 🔗https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/posocomes41_announcement_V2.pdf

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🎓 Open Position | PhD in Embodied Knowledge of the Past (Traumascapes) 📍 Radboud University, The Netherlands 📅 Start: September 2026 | Duration: 4 years (full-time) / 5 years (80% appointment) 📨 Deadline: May 6, 2026

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🔷New MSA Working Group: Language, Discourse and Memory From narratives and oral histories to multilingualism and digital methods, the group explores how memory is constructed, expressed, and negotiated through everyday discourse across diverse contexts.

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

💰Memory Scholars at Risk Fellowship – Renewed Collaboration The MSA is pleased to announce the renewal of its collaboration with the Gerda Henkel Foundation in support of the Memory Scholars at Risk Fellowship.

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🎤We are pleased to announce the launch of the Visual Memory in Media and Digital Cultures Working Group within the Memory Studies Association. Join us in building a vibrant community exploring the role of visual media in memory and society. 🔗 www.memorystudiesassociation.org/new-msas-wor...

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Masja_@_Brill @masjah.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New issue Memory Studies Review Climate Witnessing, edited by Stef Craps, Rick Crownshaw and Rebecca Dolgoy brill.com/view/journal... Please visit the journal site here www.brill.com/MESR @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social @thewha.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🗣 Upcoming dMSA Event 📅 17 March 2026 | ⏰ 21:00 UTC This dMSA seminar features members of the Afterlives global research network, whose work centres the missing and the dead to explore their enduring social and political presence in contexts of violence, conflict, and migration. 🔗 bit.ly/40UmlE1

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

📢 Call for Papers | Special Issue This special issue explores the role of collective memory in social movements amid the global rise of authoritarian practices and democratic backsliding. 🔗 www.memorystudiesassociation.org/wp-content/u...

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

📢 Upcoming Conference Organized by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, it provides a space for researchers, professionals, and cultural practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential of museums operating outside dominant institutional centers. 📅Deadline for submissions: March 18th

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🗣 Upcoming dMSA Event: 📅 24 February 2026 | ⏰ 16:00 (online) 🎙 Moderated by Dr. Andrej Mirčev Interested? Register here: bit.ly/3OLampq

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

📚 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

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

📖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

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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...

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

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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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

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

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🎓 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

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Masja_@_Brill @masjah.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Top 2 Most downloaded article in 2025 Memory Studies Review – your interest got piqued by: Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Collective Memory? brill.com/view/journal... @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Masja_@_Brill @masjah.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Top 2 Most downloaded article in 2025 Memory Studies Review – your interest got piqued by: Digital Afterlife and the Future of Collective Memory brill.com/view/journal... @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🏆 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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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

🎆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).

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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...

Picture of blog „dekolonial-erinnern.de“ announcing new contribution: „Memorial concept without colonialism: Heavy criticism of Minister of State Weimer in the Bundestag’s Culture Committee“

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

#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

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

#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

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Masja_@_Brill @masjah.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

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Masja_@_Brill @masjah.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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...

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