Programme for the Memory Studies Association Conference 2017 now online!
The programme for the second annual conference of the Memory Studies Association (MSA), which will be hosted by the University of Copenhagen from December 14 to 16, is now online. You can find it here.
Hosting 77 research panels and roundtables, 8 turbo talk sessions and 69 poster presentations the conference addresses a number of crucial themes within memory studies. These include monuments, museums, politics and administration of memory, memory and activism, the digital turn, media, arts and literature, trauma, memory and psychology, migration, gender and memory, and sites and places of memory. The Memory Studies Association aims to provide the main annual networking opportunity for scholars and practitioners in the field. Speakers include Marianne Hirsch, Jan Gross, Joshua Oppenheimer, Aleida Asssmann, Astrid Erll, Ann Rigney, Carol Gluck, Patrick Hutton, Paco Ferrandiz and many others.
All are welcome to attend this event! The conference will feature a mini-film festival, a book raffle, and many networking opportunities. You can register here.