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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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
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
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
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
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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
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
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
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
January 24, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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
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
🔹 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
January 20, 2026 at 1:16 AM
🎓 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
🔹 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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Presented to Hasmik Knyazyan for “Digital Homelands: Facebook as a Grassroots Community Archive in Response to Political Erasure in Artsakh.”
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January 15, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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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@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Collective Memory?
brill.com/view/journal...
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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
Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Collective Memory?
brill.com/view/journal...
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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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
brill.com/view/journal...
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Digital Afterlife and the Future of Collective Memory
brill.com/view/journal...
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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
Digital Afterlife and the Future of Collective Memory
brill.com/view/journal...
@memstudiesassoc.bsky.social
🏆 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.”
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.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:49 AM
🏆 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.”
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.”
🎆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).
🥂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).
January 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
🎆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).
🥂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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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...
@michmo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @adamblackler.bsky.social @profdanhicks.bsky.social @mrothberg.bsky.social
👉 dekolonial-erinnern.de/memorial-con...
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
👉 dekolonial-erinnern.de/memorial-con...
@michmo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @adamblackler.bsky.social @profdanhicks.bsky.social @mrothberg.bsky.social
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#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
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
#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
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
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
brill.com/display/titl...
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
brill.com/display/titl...
🕯️ 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.
🔗 reclit.hypotheses.org
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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.
🔗 reclit.hypotheses.org
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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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urbanmattersjournal.com/thick-mappin...
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...
urbanmattersjournal.com
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
urbanmattersjournal.com/thick-mappin...
urbanmattersjournal.com/thick-mappin...
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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.
www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...
www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...
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/...
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.