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TraCe Book Talk on May 2: Anoma Pieris on Decolonial Memorialisation and Intersectional Sovereignty

April 19th, 2024|

May 2, 3-6pm  Campus Westend, Casino, Room 1.811 In this talk, Professor Anoma Pieris discusses the design, intellectual framing for and methodological approach to her most recent publication, The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press 2022), co-authored with Japanese-American scholar Lynne Horiuchi. The book [...]

TraCe Roundtable on May 2: “Rethinking Cosmopolitan Memory in Post-Colonial Contexts”

April 18th, 2024|

Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 6 pm (18:00 s.t.) Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, Casino, Room 1.811 The increasing globalization of collective memories has been at the centre of debates within the interdisciplinary field of Memory Studies for more than two decades. In the early 2000s, Daniel Levy’s and Natan [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Nadia Butt on Transgenerational Trauma

April 4th, 2024|

Transgenerational Trauma: The Entanglement of Family Memories in 21st – Century Diasporic Women’s Literatures from the Global South Prof. Dr. Nadia Butt (Goethe University Frankfurt) May 7, 2024 4 pm CET IG 1.414, Campus Westend This lecture examines transgenerational trauma in relation to family memories as narrated in Moroccan American [...]

Visiting Fellows at FMSP

April 4th, 2024|

We warmly welcome Silvia Correia (University of Porto), Rūta Matimaitytė (Lithuanian Institute of History), Alejandro Muñoz Aporta (Complutense University Madrid) and Marija Vasiljević (Institute for Balkan Studies) as visiting fellows at the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform. Silvia works on contemporary history in Portugal and Europe, with a particular focus on [...]

In memory of Jan Assmann

February 21st, 2024|

The field of memory studies has lost its most charismatic founding figure. Jan Assmann died on Monday 19. February 2024. He was 85. Jan Assmann’s landmark study of cultural memory, Das kulturelle Gedächtnis, was published in 1992 – and it was immediately welcomed across German academia as a new ‘paradigm’ [...]

Call for Papers: Mnemonics 2024 at UCLA!

February 5th, 2024|

"Violence and Repair" Los Angeles, July 9-11, 2024 The twelfth Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and its Working Group in Memory Studies and will take place in person from Tuesday through Thursday, July 9-11, 2024. The annual Mnemonics summer school brings together junior [...]

Call for Abstracts: Memory Studies in Turkey and Beyond. A Handbook

January 22nd, 2024|

edited by Erol Gülüm (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim (Boğaziçi University & Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey) Turkey with geographical, historical, social, and cultural attributes stands as a unique laboratory for memory studies. Memory studies in turn can serve as an antidote for grappling with Turkey’s past, [...]

Astrid Erll receives Honorary Doctorate from Copenhagen University

November 23rd, 2023|

Dear members and friends of FMSP, I am very grateful to Anna Lena Sandberg and Tea Sindbæk Andersen, who nominated me for the honorary doctorate at Copenhagen University! Memory Studies features strongly in their nomination text and therefore this is also a  distinction for our relatively young research field. (For [...]

TraCe Workshop: BEYOND ACADEMIA with Miyerlandy Cabanzo

November 13th, 2023|

BEYOND ACADEMIA - How we as researchers can successfully engage practice Date: December 11th, 2023 Modality: in person Place: PRIF- small conference room (5th floor) Time: 2-4 pm Please register in advance by sending an email to trace-coordination@prif.org by Monday, Nov 27, 2023. When scholars discuss the field of political [...]

Visiting Fellows at FMSP

October 19th, 2023|

We warmly welcome Rebeca Lopes Cabral (University of São Paulo) and Ronan Crowley (Marie Curie Fellow). Rebeca’s research examines the relationships between memories of violence and spaces, focusing on the memorials related to Latin American dictatorships. Ronan is a specialist on James Joyce and Irish modernism. Both scholars will be [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Avishek Parui on digital/affective ecology in contemporary conditions of memory

October 16th, 2023|

January 18, 2024, 4:00 pm Goethe University, Campus Westend, Cas 1.812 The digital/affective ecology in contemporary conditions of memory: A Case Study of the AR/VR app MovingMemory Avishek Parui, IIT Madras Download the poster.  Watch the recording here.  This talk aims to examine the entanglement of affect and digitality in [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Jenny Wüstenberg on Remembering Extinction. Slow and Fast Memories of Biodiversity Loss

October 6th, 2023|

Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent University) January 23, 2024 4pm, Room 411  Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend Download the poster here Some our most vexing contemporary challenges can be described in terms of slow memory: when we are not propelled into decisive action by memories of extreme violence, sudden catastrophe, or [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Sakiru Adebayo on Postcolonial Memory

October 6th, 2023|

Sakiru Adebayo (University of British Columbia) November 20, 2023 6pm, Online via Zoom Online via Zoom Download the poster here. Watch the lecture here.  In this talk, I explore the emerging subfield of postcolonial memory studies. I argue that the colonial enterprise is a memory enterprise and that colonialism, among [...]

CANCELLED: Annika Björkdahl on Troubling Testimonies. Women’s Narrative of War

October 6th, 2023|

This lecture was cancelled.  Annika Björkdahl (Lund University) November 14, 2023 2:15 pm, HZ 14 (Campus Westend) Goethe University Frankfurt This event is organized in collaboration with TraCe and the Marburg Center for Peace and Conflict Studies.  Download the poster here. In transitions from war to peace the act of [...]

Join us for the talk “Eironeisa: Irish Islands and Pacific Waters” next Monday!

July 18th, 2023|

"Eironeisa: Irish Islands and Pacific Waters"  Dr Maebh Long, University of Waikato, New Zealand When? Monday 24th of July – 18.00  Where? Eisenhower Saal – IG 1.314 , Campus Westend, Goethe University Frankfurt  This talk traces the ways familiar depictions of Ireland are interrupted when we consider some of the [...]

Event “Filme nach Auschwitz”

June 20th, 2023|

EINLADUNG ZUM HEARING FILME NACH AUSCHWITZ: PÄDAGOGISCHE PERSPEKTIVEN AUF MEDIALE ERINNERUNGEN 10. – 11. Juli 2023, Frankfurt am Main Die Anmeldung erfolgt über diesen Link. Es sind nur begrenzt Plätze verfügbar. Anmeldeschluss ist der 5. Juli.  Film eröffnet nicht nur Perspektiven auf unsere Welt und die jeweiligen Gesellschaften, sondern schafft [...]

Meet the Memory Studies Review — the new journal in Memory Studies!

May 10th, 2023|

Editors-in-Chief: Erol Gülüm, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Paul Leworthy, University of Edinburgh, UK Justyna Tabaszewska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Hanna Teichler, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Memory Studies Review provides a unique platform for multidisciplinary research spanning a wide range of methodologies and theoretical frameworks across the field of memory [...]

PodCast on Transformations of Political Violence

March 28th, 2023|

“Die Transformation politischer Gewalt” PRIF Talk (Podcast des Leibniz Peace Research Institute) https://blog.prif.org/2023/03/23/podcast-006-die-transformation-politischer-gewalt/ Welchen Einfluss hat der Angriff Russlands auf die Ukraine auf Transformation politischer Gewalt? Was ist der Zusammenhang zwischen politischer Gewalt und kollektivem Gedächtnis? Und was kann politische Gewalt eigentlich noch bedeuten? Warum es wichtig und spannend ist, [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: David Mwambari on Traveling Memory in East Africa

March 20th, 2023|

Prof. David Mwambari (KU Leuven): Traveling Memories, Silences and Secrets: Life Narratives of Violence Among Refugees from Africa’s Great Lakes Region (AGLR) April 25, 2023 Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, IG 311 Download the poster here More about Dr Mwambari here The lecture will discuss a project our research team [...]

Call for Papers: Book Series “Generations, Transitions, and Social Change”

March 20th, 2023|

Generations, transitions, and social change Bristol University Press has launched an exciting new series for new work in generational studies. The field has emerged from a growing interest in the concept of generation across a range of disciplines, as scholars and researchers seek to understand social, economic and political trends [...]

Call for Papers: Conference “Memory, Ecology, and Sustainability”

March 20th, 2023|

Memory, Ecology, and Sustainability   Download the call here   Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS), in association with the Centre for Memory Studies (CMS), IIT Madras, is delighted to announce the second international Memory Studies conference, "Memory, Ecology, and Sustainability" to be held from 20-22 September 2023 at IIT [...]

Call for Papers: Conference “Contemporary Modernisms”

February 20th, 2023|

Institute of English and American Studies and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform Goethe University Frankfurt 25th–27th May 2023 Organised by John Greaney (Goethe University Frankfurt) Download the call here Confirmed Speakers: John Brannigan (University College Dublin) - Julie McCormick Weng (Texas State University) - Václav Paris (City University of New [...]

Call for Papers: Post-Socialism, Migration and Memory in Britain and Beyond

February 13th, 2023|

Post-Socialism, Migration and Memory in Britain and Beyond What happens to memories of state-socialism and of post-communist transition when its carriers move across borders? How do individuals and communities grapple with the legacies of regimes in host societies with different kinds of legacies? As a culmination point of the research [...]

Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory

February 10th, 2023|

Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory London, UK, 27-29 June 2023 The eleventh Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Goldsmiths, University of London from Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 June 2023, and will take place on-site at King’s College London and the [...]

Astrid Erll at the TraCe Lecture Series “Perspectives on Violence in the 21st Century”!

January 13th, 2023|

"Post-Conflict Memory and Pre-Conflict Memory” Astrid Erll   January 24, 2023 at 4.15 pm  Phillips University Marburg The Research Center "Transformations of Political Violence" (TraCe) is an interdisciplinary research network of five Hessian research Institutions: The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Justus Liebig University Giessen, the [...]

Japanese Translation of Introduction to Memory Studies!

November 11th, 2022|

Jun Yamana (Tokyo University) has translated Astrid Erll’s introduction to memory studies into Japanese. The book has just come out with the SUISEI-SHA publishers. Thank you, Jun Yamana, for making memory studies travel! See here: https://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/221101mybook

FMSP Fellows in Winter 2022/23

October 18th, 2022|

FMSP is very happy to welcome Dr. Kaya de Wolff, Dr. Özge Özdemir and Ozan Çömelekoğlu as new Fellows at the Platform! Kaya de Wolff works in the new project "Transformations of Political Violence", where she studies mediated memories of political violence in Brazil. Özge Özdemir is a Humboldt Fellow, working on memories of the 1980 coup d’état in Turkey among [...]

Launch of TraCe – Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence”

October 17th, 2022|

The Research Center "Transformations of Political Violence" (TraCe) is an interdisciplinary research network of five Hessian research Institutions: The Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Philipps University Marburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education [...]

Ulysses 100 exhibition at Goethe University

September 22nd, 2022|

To mark the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses, The Consul General of Ireland to Frankfurt is hosting a Ulysses 100 exhibition at Goethe University from 17-31 October 2022. To launch the exhibition, award-winning author Emilie Pine will come to Goethe University on Thursday 20 October to read from her [...]

Immigrating into Germany’s Past: A Roundtable at the Historical Museum Frankfurt

July 1st, 2022|

June 22, 2022: Several FMSP Fellows participated in a Roundtable Event at the Historical Museum Frankfurt. Using HMF’s current participatory exhibition (Stadtlabor) about traces of Nazism in Frankfurt as a starting point, they discussed with diverse experts on Holocaust education what memory can mean in a diverse (urban) society. For [...]

The Connecting Memories Podcast by Paul Leworthy

June 30th, 2022|

On the Connecting Memories Podcast, Paul Leworthy talks to leading academics about memory. Since its launch in 2020, the podcast has sought to engage scholars interested in memory by inviting experts in the field to present their work as well as asking each of them: what does memory mean in [...]

Summer 2022: FMSP Fellows

June 30th, 2022|

This summer, FMSP eventually returned to in-presence research. We collaborated with no less than ten international fellows. ‚Literature and Memory‘ was our theme. Find out more about the members of our group here: Ian Ellison Astrid Erll Erol Gülüm John Greaney Jihad Karim Amy Leech Paul Leworthy Ruta Matimaitytė Rafael [...]

Out now! Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Mikrogeschichten der Erinnerungskultur

June 30th, 2022|

New publication: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Mikrogeschichten der Erinnerungskultur. „Am grünen Strand der Spree“ und die Remedialisierung des Holocaust by bullets. Who constructs memory culture? What kind of impact do conceptions of history have on their users? What kind of infrastructure activates cultural memory? In three microhistorical studies, Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska examines the [...]

Einwandern in die Geschichte? NS-Erinnerung in der diversen Stadtgesellschaft

June 13th, 2022|

Fünf Erinnerungs-Expert*innen besuchen die Stadtlabor-Ausstellung „Frankfurt und der NS. Auf Spurensuche im Heute“. Sie stellen aktuelle Theorien und Ansätze aus den Memory Studies, der Geschichts- und Erziehungswissenschaft, Museumspädagogik und der politischen Bildung vor. Vor den Ausstellungs-Beiträgen der Stadtlaborant*innen und im Gespräch mit den Besucher*innen machen die Erinnerungs-Expert*innen die Theorien anschaulich [...]

Watch now! Susanne Knittel on Perpetrator Memory

May 16th, 2022|

New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series: Susanne Knittel (Utrecht): “Encountering Perpetrators: Testimony, Representation, Memory” New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series Event June 14, 2022 Download the poster here.  Visit the event page.  Watch the recording here.    The past two decades have witnessed a palpable “turn” to the perpetrator in [...]

Modernist Memories 1922-2022: Conference at Goethe University

May 16th, 2022|

Modernist Memories: 1922, Before and After  Institute of English and American Studies and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform Goethe University Frankfurt 23–25 May 2022 Download the full program here.  Keynote Speakers John Brannigan (University College Dublin) Astrid Erll (Goethe University Frankfurt) Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania) Modernist Memories, 1922, Before [...]

Breaking Down the Silos- Workshop in March 2022

April 7th, 2022|

In late March 2022, we enjoyed a small international workshop at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Bad Homburg. It carried the programmatic title “Breaking down the Silos” and was co-organized by Astrid Erll (FMSP) and Bill Hirst (New School New York). Our aim was to bring together more closely [...]

Call for Papers Mnemonics 2022

February 9th, 2022|

Mnemopolitics: Contested Memories and (Ab)uses of the Past Stockholm, Sweden, 16-19 August 2022 The tenth Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by Södertörn University and its Centre for Baltic and East European Studies from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 August 2022, and will take place as a hybrid event, both on site [...]

Virtual Book Launch Event: Carnivalizing Reconciliation

February 3rd, 2022|

Join February 9th 2022 at 6 pm CET, online via Zoom Click here for Advance Registration: Panelists: Sakiru Adebayo, University of British Columbia Lea David, College Dublin Catherine Umolac, York University Moderator: Magdalena Pfalzgraf, University of Saarbruecken Download the flyer here. 

Apply now! Conference Modernist Memories: 1922, Before and After

December 22nd, 2021|

Call for Papers Modernist Memories: 1922, Before and After  Institute of English and American Studies and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform Goethe University Frankfurt 23–25 May 2022 Keynote Speakers John Brannigan (University College Dublin) Astrid Erll (Goethe University Frankfurt) Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania) Occurring within a critical and cultural [...]

Out now! Special Issue “Memory & Crisis”, co-edited by Jeff Olick and Hanna Teichler

December 13th, 2021|

The current issue of the journal Memory Studies is out now! It is a Special Issue on "Memory and Crisis", and was co-edited by Jeffrey K. Olick (University of Virginia) and Hanna Teichler (Goethe University, FMSP), and is comprised of four parts and 23 contributions on questions relating to crisis, democracy, memory, [...]

Out now! Hanna Teichler’s Carnivalizing Reconciliation

December 13th, 2021|

CARNIVALIZING RECONCILIATION. Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm  Hanna Teichler  Volume 8, Worlds of Memory  Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of “memory work” that [...]

New Group of International Fellows at FMSP

November 24th, 2021|

We warmly welcome an impressive group of international fellows at FMSP:  John Greaney, Erol Gülüm, Amy Leech, and Justyna Tabaszewska. In the academic year 2022/23 we will be working together as the “FMSP literature and memory group”. We look forward to connecting with the larger international FMSP-community – so please [...]

Call for Abstracts Brill Handbook of Indian Memory Studies

November 24th, 2021|

Call for Abstracts Brill Handbook of Indian Memory Studies This edited collection of essays, part of the Brill’s Handbook series in Memory Studies, seeks to engage with and examine different discourses on memory studies in India. In accordance with the philosophical framework espoused in this series which acts as transnational reference guide [...]

Call for Papers Special Issue Memory Studies “Mnemonic Wars: New Constellations”

November 24th, 2021|

 Co-edited by Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (German Historical Institute Warsaw), Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw) and Zofia Wóycicka (German Historical Institute Warsaw).  Each year, the Memory Studies Association edits an issue of the journal Memory Studies that addresses key topics raised at our Annual Meeting and that are of importance to the [...]

Call for Papers: Unlocked Memory – Did the Covid Pandemic Change Commemorations?

November 20th, 2021|

Call for papers for an edited book to be published at a university press: Unlocked Memory - Did the Covid Pandemic Change Commemorations? Editors: Sarah Gensburger, Full Research Professor in Political Science at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Orli Fridman, Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Belgrade [...]

Watch now! “Paris Attacks: November 2015 – Building a Collective Memory” (Documentary)

November 12th, 2021|

Paris Attacks: November 2015 - Building a Collective Memory Documentary (France 2021), directed by Joël Calmettes This is a new documentary on the November 13 (2015) Paris attacks, and how memories have since evolved along different biological, social and cultural paths. It is an excellent example of the process of [...]

Memory in Africa: State of the Field (Conference)

October 30th, 2021|

The Africa Chapter of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) will be holding its annual conference as an online event on November 24 & 25, 2021: "Memory in Africa: State of the Field" (Click to see programme as PDF, including Zoom links to the conference sessions) The event is convened by [...]

Lecture Series: Sinophone Classicism – Chinese Cultural Memories in a Global Space

October 22nd, 2021|

Zhiyi Yang (Professor of Sinology and Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften) is hosting a lecture series on »Sinophone Classicism« this Winter term at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe University Frankfurt. The opening lecture will be given by David Der-wei Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard [...]

Welcome to our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow John Greaney

October 15th, 2021|

We are happy to announce that John Greaney will be working with us here for the next two years, as a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Institute for English and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.   He was previously a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and [...]

Buchvorstellung: Der Erste Weltkrieg im filmischen Gedächtnis Europas und des Nahen Ostens.

October 4th, 2021|

Kulturelles Trauma und transnationale Erinnerung in Europa und dem Nahen Osten 4. October, 19 h CEST (20 h Ortszeit)  Im Rahmen der Eröffnung der Ausstellung „German Stories“ in Zusammenarbeit mit der Buchmesse Frankfurt  und unserer Partnerinstitution Beit Ariela. Der Erste Weltkrieg gilt im europäischen und insbesondere im deutschen Gedächtnis als [...]

memory is a social organ: Eine Ausstellung zur Erinnerung der Gegenwart

September 13th, 2021|

memory is a social organ. Eine Ausstellung zur Erinnerung der Gegenwart. 10.09. - 19.09.21 mit Talya Feldman, Ludmila Hrachovinová, Sharon Jamila Hutchinson, Ülkü Süngün kuratiert von Asta von Mandelsloh, Laura Schilling fffriedrich Alte Mainzer Gasse 4-6 60311 Frankfurt am Main  Verbunden im Sehen und Hören leiste ich Unbekannten eine Weile [...]

Call for papers: Mnemonic migration

September 3rd, 2021|

Mnemonic migration - transcultural transmission, translation and circulation of memory across and into contemporary Europe Copenhagen 28-29 April 2022   This conference aims to explore how memory travel through the aesthetic medium of literature and are translated into new local communities of remembering. The conference concentrates on the travelling of memories [...]

Launch Event: Indian Network for Memory Studies (IIT Madras)

June 12th, 2021|

On June 16th the Indian Network for Memory Studies (IIT Madras), led by Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj, will be launched with a kick-off online event that also features keynote talks by FMSP's very own Astrid Erll and Hanna Teichler. It is the first national network on Memory Studies [...]

New Handbook Series in Memory Studies (Brill)!

June 9th, 2021|

Brill's Handbook Series in Memory Studies Series Editors: Hanna Teichler, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and Rebekah Vince, Queen Mary University of London, UK Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies is a multi-volume, multi-disciplinary, and transnational reference guide to the rapidly expanding field of memory studies in the global context. Mapping existing and new terrains [...]

Welcome to our New Guest Researchers at FMSP!

May 14th, 2021|

Asmaa Hassaneen and Miguel Alirangues López are our guest researchers here at FMSP this summer term 2021. Asmaa Hassaneen is a PhD fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric, Aarhus University, Denmark. The title of her project is Memory Hunters: The Family Saga as a Travelling Memory of [...]

Watch now! Johanna Vollmeyer’s Project Presentation

April 12th, 2021|

Johanna Vollmeyer, Complutense University Madrid Title: Time and Memory in the Postdigital Age We are living in a postdigital age that is characterized by the profound entanglement of the analogue with the digital. They cannot be considered separate worlds any longer. Digital media are omnipresent in our everyday life and [...]

Apply now! Research Assistant and Postdoc @ UWash

March 29th, 2021|

  Henry Roediger & James Wertsch Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Department of Anthropology Washington University in St. Louis 1.) Research Assistant We are recruiting a full time Research Assistant with a start date in summer 2021. The position is to coordinate research on human memory, in particular [...]

Watch now! FMSP in the Media

March 10th, 2021|

Magdalena Zolkos in Good Morning Europe (Euronews) on "A Year of Corona" March 5, 2020 Video link Astrid Erll in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on "Wie werden wir uns an das Jahr 2020 erinnern?" (in German) December 30, 2020 Link Hanna Teichler on Instagram on "Warum ist erinnern wichtig?" (in German) May 6, [...]

Job Offer for Memory Scholars @ University of Regensburg!

March 8th, 2021|

Das neu gegründete Zentrum Erinnerungskultur (ZE) ist eine fakultätsübergreifende Zentrale Einrichtung der Universität Regensburg. Am ZE ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Stelle als Geschäftsführer / Geschäftsführerin (m/w/d) in Vollzeit (40,1 Stunden pro Woche) vorerst auf zwei Jahre befristet. Danach ist eine Entfristung angestrebt. Bitte bewerben Sie sich bis zum 29.3.2021. [...]

Watch now! Humboldt Fellow Magdalena Zolkos’ Project Presentation

February 25th, 2021|

Our Humboldt Fellow Magdalena Zolkos on "Reimagining Cultural Memory of the Arctic in the Graphic Narratives of Oqaluttuaq” -- watch the video recording here.   Abstract: The Greenlandic oral story-telling tradition, Oqaluttuaq, meaning ‘myth’ or ‘folktale’, is recognized as an important entry point into Arctic collective memory. The graphic artist Nuka K. [...]

TRANS.ARCH Archives in transition. Collective memories and subaltern uses

February 15th, 2021|

International Project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the MSCA-RISE Scheme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange). Grant agreement #872299. Project Webpage Participating Universities: Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Germany). Project Coordinator. Univerzita Palackého V Olomouci (Czech Republic), Università Degli Studi Roma Tre [...]

Stellenausschreibung/Call for Applications: „TRANS.ARCH – Archives in Transition: Collective Memories and Subaltern Uses“

February 7th, 2021|

EU-funded international project TRANS.ARCH - Archives in Transition: Collective Memories and Subaltern Uses. is looking for a new member of its research team, from now until 2025: About TRANS.ARCH TRANS.ARCH - Archives in Transition: Collective Memories and Subaltern Uses is a project funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the [...]

Watch now! Webinar Spaces of Memory Video Recording

January 27th, 2021|

The Video Recording of the webinar Spaces of Memory, organized by the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation, is now online. Watch the video recording here. 19. Januar 2021, 2pm CET/14.00 The seminar “Spaces of Memory” presents various national concepts or focal points in dealing with “traumatic places”: 1. the actual juridical function [...]

Watch now! Research Conversations in Memory Studies

January 27th, 2021|

IIT Madras Memory Studies Research Network and FMSP  November 24, 2020 Participants from IIT Madras Network: Ms Nishtha Pandey (PhD scholar, IIT Madras), 'Bearing witness through memory-mapping in Valeria Luiselli's fiction' Ms Shiji Mariam Varghese (PhD scholar, IIT Madras), 'Mapping the Kerala Jewish memory and diaspora through fiction and non-fictional narratives' Merin [...]

Call for Papers: Journal of Literary Theory “Memory and Literature”

January 11th, 2021|

PDF Version  Literature plays a crucial role in the research field of Memory Studies. In spite of extensive research in this field, also and particularly in Literary Studies relating to fictional minds and commemoration, various scholars mentioned that there is still a virtual lack of theoretical approaches to textual analysis. [...]

Call for Abstracts: Special Issue “Memory and Crisis”

January 10th, 2021|

Call for Abstracts: Special Issue Memory Studies “Memory and Crisis“ PDF Version Co-edited by Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia) and Hanna Teichler (Goethe University Frankfurt)             Each year, the MSA edits an issue of the journal Memory Studies.  Usually, this special issue draws directly on the work and discussions presented [...]

Webinar “Spaces of Memory”, moderated by Astrid Erll

January 10th, 2021|

19. Januar 2021, 2pm CET/14.00 The seminar “Spaces of Memory” presents various national concepts or focal points in dealing with “traumatic places”: 1. the actual juridical function of places of past violence in Argentina 2. the meaning of traumatic places for reconciliation in Colombia 3. the pedagogical significance of traumatic [...]

Interviews with Marianne Hirsch, Michael Rothberg & Astrid Erll etc.

December 21st, 2020|

The Russian Journal "Historical Expertise" features interviews with memory studies scholars. Read interviews with Marianne Hirsch: "I do believe that personal experience can be the laboratory for research and also for theoretical explanation" Jeffrey K. Olick "Memory is not a thing, it is not an object. Memory is an ongoing [...]

Watch now! Webinar “Experiencing and Remembering Cultural Trauma” with William Hirst, Daniel Levy, Astrid Erll, Ann Rigney & Ronald Eyerman

November 19th, 2020|

As illness and deaths mount and COVID-19 continues to exact its toll, there is no question that we are experiencing a cultural trauma of enormous magnitude and globality.  The time is right for asking: What does it mean for a community as a whole to experience trauma? How does the [...]

New Book Series Mobilizing Memories & Handbook Series

October 30th, 2020|

Series editors: Hanna Teichler, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and Rebekah Vince, Queen Mary University of London, UK Memory is always moving ‒ between the individual and the collective, the local and the (trans)national, the past, the present, and the future. Recent approaches frame and understand memory discourses as mobile, with [...]

Out now! Trauma y Memoria Cultural

October 19th, 2020|

Roland Spiller, Kirsten Mahlke, Janett Reinstädler (eds.): Trauma y memoria cultural: Hispanoamérica y España. Berlin, etc.: de Gruyter Handbook 2020  (ISBN: 9783110355864) Los diversos pueblos y culturas que integran Hispanoamérica y España están marcados por los traumas de la conquista, la esclavitud, las guerras, las dictaduras, las guerrillas, las revoluciones, los golpes de [...]

Watch now! Literary Memory Activism in an Age of Migration: The Refugee Tales

October 19th, 2020|

Lecture at ReAct (Remembering Activism) Project, Utrecht University Astrid Erll, Goethe University Literary Memory Activism in an Age of Migration: The Refugee Tales This lecture took place on January 21, 2020 in Utrecht and addressed the practice of literary memory activism, using the Refugee Tales (www.refugeetales.org) as an example. Refugee [...]

Out Now! “Memory Worlds in Times of Corona” by Astrid Erll

September 18th, 2020|

Memory Studies 13.5, 2020: 861-874 This article addresses the complex temporal and global dynamics of the coronavirus pandemic. After considering some of the new social rhythms that have emerged in the wake of Covid-19 around the world, it turns to the role of collective memory before, during and after corona. [...]

Out now! Performing Moving Images: Access, Archives, and Affects

September 16th, 2020|

Senta Siewert Performing Moving Images: Access, Archives, and Affects Amsterdam University Press, 2020 Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affectspresents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned to oblivion. Through a comparison of recent international case studies [...]

Out Now from the new Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung Series!

September 7th, 2020|

Ko-Erinnerung: Grenzen, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven des neueren Shoah-Gedenkens Commemoration: Limits, Challenges, and Possibilities in Contemporary Shoah Remembrance Edited by: Daniela Henke and Tom Vanassche De Gruyter, 2020 Series: Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 2   Language: German, English In this volume, 18 authors seek to answer the question of whether the memory of [...]

Out Now from the MCM Series!

September 7th, 2020|

Gal Kirn The Partisan Counter-Archive. Retracing the Ruptures of Art and Memory in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle Series: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 27, De Gruyter, 2020 Mere decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the promise of European democracy seems to be out of joint. What [...]

Out Now from the new Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung Series!

September 6th, 2020|

Opfernarrative in transnationalen Kontexten Victim Narratives in Transnational Contexts Edited by: Eva Binder, Christof Diem, Miriam Finkelstein, Sieglinde Klettenhammer, Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner, Marijana Milošević,  and Julia Pröll Series: Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 3, De Gruyter, 2020 Language: German, English This edited volume examines the representation of victims beyond the categories of [...]

The Connecting Memories Podcast

May 18th, 2020|

By Paul Leworthy   In this podcast series, Paul Leworthy will be talking to leading academics about memory. As well as presenting some aspect of their research, each episode's guest speaker will be invited to discuss what the term 'memory' means in the context of their research. For more information [...]

Apply Now! CfP Memory as a Dialogue?

March 30th, 2020|

9-11 September 2020  Memory as a Dialogue? History for Young People Centre for East European and International Studies | Mohrenstr. 60 | 10117 Berlin  Historical narratives are foundational for most collective identities. The way any group relates to its history has implications for its political and social imaginaries and what [...]

Out Now! Bilderregungen – Die Produktionsmechanismen zeitgenössischer Kriegsfotografie

March 30th, 2020|

Das Buch Bilderregungen widmet sich den Produktionsmechanismen zeitgenössischer Kriegs- und Konfliktfotografie. Der Buchtitel kann aus diesem Grund auf zwei Weisen gelesen werden: Bilder-Regungen beschreibt Vorgänge, in denen Bilder etwas bewegen und etwas durch sie bewegt wird. Der Begriff der Bild-Erregungen stellt die Frage: Was bewegt wiederum das Bild? Entgegen einer [...]

CANCELLED! Mnemonics Network 2020: Memory and Migration

February 26th, 2020|

The ninth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school, hosted by Aarhus University from Wednesday 26 to Saturday 29 August 2020, at the historical Sandbjerg Manor in Southern Denmark, had to be cancelled. The annual Mnemonics summer school brings together junior and senior scholars in the interdisciplinary field of memory [...]

Call for Papers: Memory Studies Association Workshop Memory and Populism – Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives

December 17th, 2019|

  24 March 2020, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science Over the last decades, memory studies as well as research in populist politics, policies and politicians mushroomed, in both quality and quantity and in a variety of academic fields. Rarely, however, are populism and memory analysed in [...]

Call for Papers: Dynamics of Collective Narration

November 25th, 2019|

 CALL FOR PAPERS  Dynamics of Collective Narration  A workshop on contemporary factual narratives in their social contexts  18-20 June 2020 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany  This workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary exchange between theoretical perspectives from the social sciences and literary studies in the analysis of collective narration. In doing [...]

International Conference: Transcultural Mobilities and Memories / DEADLINE NOVEMBER 30!

November 18th, 2019|

International Conference: Transcultural Mobilities and Memories Date: 16-17 April 2020 University of Minho, Institute of Arts and Humanities, Center for Humanistic Studies, Braga/Portugal For the last few years the research group on Transcultural Studies (NETCult), anchored at the Center for Humanistic Studies at the University of Minho (CEHUM) in Braga [...]

Apply Now! UVa Graduate Seminar on Memory Studies

November 4th, 2019|

The Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia (USA) invites applications for an experimental “Graduate Seminar in Memory Studies” to be offered in Spring semester 2020. Participants will include graduate students from across different disciplines at UVa along with an approximately equal number of graduate students from around the world connected electronically [...]

Call for Papers: New Facets of Historical Film and Television in Contemporary Europe

November 4th, 2019|

Centre for Literature and Languages, Lund University, 8-9 May 2020 Contemporary European audiovisual production – film, television as well as online videos – engages with history in a variety of ways. This conference will focus on emerging perspectives that capture ongoing developments across Europe. We aim to bring together scholars [...]

Die Vorträge der Tagung “Dynamiken des Erinnerns und Vergessens”

October 4th, 2019|

Die Vorträge der Tagung “Dynamiken des Erinnerns und Vergessens” (23. und 24. Mai 2019) im Historischen Museum Frankfurt sind jetzt online! https://historisches-museum-frankfurt.de/de/Dynamiken Hier finden sich etwa die Vorträge der FMSP-Fellows Christine Abbt zur Philosophie des Vergessens (https://historisches-museum-frankfurt.de/node/55060), Tilmann Habermas zu Lebensgeschichten (https://historisches-museum-frankfurt.de/node/55063), Vera King zu Erinnern und Vergessen im digitalen [...]

Welcome to our New Guest Researcher at FMSP!

September 30th, 2019|

Welcome to our New Guest Researcher at FMSP!Magdalena Zolkos, Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University FrankfurtMagdalena Zolkos is Humboldt Research Fellow at Goethe University (2019-2021). Her work employs political, philosophic and literary perspectives for the analysis and theorizing of collective memorialization and historical trauma, with a particular interest in the mnemonic [...]

Memory Studies: State of the Field Survey

August 26th, 2019|

Memory Studies: State of the Field SurveyDear colleagues and leaders of Memory Studies Centers and networks around the world, together with my colleague Prof. Anamaria Dutceac-Segesten, I am conducting an online survey designed to assess the state and development of memory studies as a field of research and practice. This [...]

Statement of Support for Ayşe Gül Altınay

May 27th, 2019|

Statement of Support for Ayşe Gül Altınay, Turkish Academic for Peace Sentenced to 25 Months in PrisonAyşe Gül Altınay, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Center at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey, is set to give a keynote at the summer school organized by the [...]

NEW FRONTIERS IN MEMORY STUDIES LECTURE SERIES ANN RIGNEY

May 7th, 2019|

NEW FRONTIERS IN MEMORY STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Memory activism, moving monuments Prof. Dr. Ann Rigney (Utrecht) May 16, 6-8pm, IG 1.414 (Campus Westend) Public calls to destroy, refigure, or relocate monuments have recently become a regular feature of our news. This was especially the case in the summer of 2017 [...]

NEW FRONTIERS IN MEMORY STUDIES LECTURE SERIES NATAN SZNAIDER

May 7th, 2019|

 NEW FRONTIERS IN MEMORY STUDIES LECTURE SERIES Die andere Frankfurter Schule: Karl Mannheim und die Frankfurter Soziologie der 1930er Jahre Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Natan Sznaider (Tel Aviv) 9. Juli 2019 Karl Mannheim gilt zu Recht als einer der wichtigsten Begründer der Weimarer Wissenssoziologie. Sein neues soziologisches Programm stellte er [...]

Vergessen – Warum wir nicht alles erinnern

April 23rd, 2019|

Vergessen – Warum wir nicht alles erinnernSonderausstellung im Historischen Museum Frankfurt7. März – 14. Juli 2019Vergessen. Alle kennen es, jeder tut es. Vergessen ist normal. Mal finden wir es lästig, mal hilfreich und tröstlich, dann wieder problematisch. Wie lässt es sich beschreiben? In einer Sonderausstellung nimmt das Historische Museum Frankfurt [...]

New Guest Researcher at FMSP – Taylor McConnell

March 5th, 2019|

New Guest Researcher at FMSP We are excited to welcome Taylor McConnell as a visiting researcher at FMSP for the 2019 summer semester! Taylor is a doctoral researcher in sociology at the university of Edinburgh. His thesis, “Još Hrvatska ni propala [Still Croatia Has Not Fallen]: Examining the Public Face [...]

MSA Forward: Memory Studies Moving Onward and Upward

February 26th, 2019|

MSA Forward: Memory Studies Moving Onward and Upward Article in Memory Studies 12.1 In the current issue of Memory Studies, Hanna Teichler (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Rebekah Vince (University of Warwick) reflect upon the état présent of emerging scholarship in the interdisiplinary field of Memory Studies and give a conference [...]

Astrid Erll in Conversation with Michel Friedman

January 14th, 2019|

Astrid Erll in Conversation with Michel Friedman“Auf ein Wort…” (Deutsche Welle)Ist das Gedächtnis statisch oder dynamisch? Funktioniert es kognitiv oder emotional? Beherrscht das Gedächtnis den Menschen, oder beherrscht der Mensch das Gedächtnis? Michel Friedman und Kulturwissenschaftlerin Astrid Erll debattieren über das Gedächtnis.

Call for Papers: Mnemonics Summer School 2019: Memory and Activism

January 14th, 2019|

Call for Papers: Mnemonics Summer School 2019: Memory and ActivismUtrecht, 18 – 20 September 2019Deadline for Applications: 1 March 2019The annual Mnemonics Summer School serves as an interactive forum in which junior and senior memory scholars meet in an informal and convivial setting to discuss each other’s work and to [...]

Call for Papers: Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood

November 27th, 2018|

Call for Papers: Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood25-27 September 2019Deadline for Applications: 10 January 2019The UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin is hosting an international conference in collaboration with the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, on “Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Integration, Community, and Co-Habitation”. [...]

Conference Reflections: Rwanda after 1994

October 29th, 2018|

Conference Reflections: Rwanda after 1994Chijioke Kizito Onah, MA student of Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media at Goethe University and member of the FMSP, has recently published his reflections on the conference “Rwanda After 1994: Stories of Change” (St. Andrews, 06 July 2018) in the African Courier. You can read his [...]

Film: Afrasian Memories in East Africa

October 19th, 2018|

Film: Afrasian Memories in East AfricaThe film ‘Afrasian Memories in East Africa’ is an attempt at understanding imaginaries and memories that connect Africa and Asia, how these imaginaries and memories are produced and what they are used for within the Afrasian transregion. The film focuses on connective Afrasian memories while [...]

Call for Papers: MSA Forward 2019

October 16th, 2018|

Call for Papers: MSA Forward 2019Madrid, 25-28 June 2019Deadline for Applications: 01 December 2018The Third Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) will take place in 2019 in Madrid. MSA Forward, the graduate forum for young scholars and practitioners, welcomes papers from graduate students, Phd candidates and postdocs in [...]

Out now: Polish Translation of Astrid Erll’s Introduction to Cultural Memory

September 11th, 2018|

Out now: Polish Translation of Astrid Erll’s Introduction to Cultural MemoryAs the result of a cooperation between the Warsaw University Press and Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau, a Polish translation of Astrid Erll’s Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen: Eine Einführung has just been published. Click here for more information.

Call for Papers: Winter School Social Semiotics: Mediale Tradierung – kulturelle Transformationen im digitalen Zeitalter

September 10th, 2018|

Call for Papers: Winter School Social Semiotics: Mediale Tradierung – kulturelle Transformationen im digitalen ZeitalterPassau, 20-23 February 2019Deadline for Applications: 15 October 2018In der vom 20. bis 23. Februar 2019 geplanten Winterschule soll diskutiert werden, wie sich neue mediale Möglichkeiten zu konventionellen Strukturen und AkteurInnen der kulturellen Tradierung sowie zur [...]

Out now! Rethinking Countermemory: Black-Jewish negotiations in rap music

August 31st, 2018|

Out now! “Rethinking Countermemory: Black-Jewish negotiations in rap music”, by Jarula M.I. Wegner (Goethe University, FMSP, IMSG) online first in the journal Memory Studies. Article abstract: The concept of countermemory is frequently used in various, sometimes contradictory ways. This essay aims at further clarifying the concept of countermemory by highlighting [...]

Video Recording of Christina Morina’s Talk in Frankfurt

August 28th, 2018|

Video Recording of Christina Morina’s Talk in FrankfurtIn May this year, Christina Morina (University of Amsterdam) gave a New Frontiers in Memory Studies lecture here in Frankfurt with the title “Die Erfindung des Marxismus: Wie eine Idee die Welt eroberte“, which doubled as a Mittwochskonferenz of our Frankfurt Humanities Research [...]

Video Recording of Julia Creet’s Talk in Frankfurt

August 24th, 2018|

Video Recording of Julia Creet’s Talk in FrankfurtClick here to find a video recording of the talk “The Journey: H.G. Adler as Modernist Historiographer” that Julia Creet (York University, Toronto) gave here in Frankfurt in May as part of our New Frontiers in Memory Studies lecture series.

Pictures from the Writer’s Talk with Verena Boos

August 21st, 2018|

Pictures from the Writer’s Talk with Verena BoosOn June 26, the writer Verena Boos talked to us about her book project on the layers of memory in the urbon topography in Barcelona. Click here to see some photographic impressions of the event.

Invitation to the Keynote Lecture of the Mnemonics Summer School 2018: Ecologies of Memory

July 16th, 2018|

Invitation to the Keynote Lecture of the Mnemonics Summer School 2018: Ecologies of MemoryLeuven, 22-24 August 2018The keynote lectures at this year’s Mnemonics summer school – unlike the rest of the programme – are open to the public. Please feel welcome to visit these: on Wednesday, 22nd of August (9:45–11:00 [...]

Call for Papers: International Conference Shadow Places. Urban Strategies of Dealing with Painful Pasts

July 14th, 2018|

Call for Papers: International Conference Shadow Places. Urban Strategies of Dealing with Painful PastsWarsaw, 07-10 March 2019Deadline for applications: 15 September 2018The term “shadow place” is a neologism that draws attention to memorialization and touristification as social processes. It designates places that are confronted with a publicly known and labelled [...]

Out now! Cultural Memory Studies after the Transnational Turn

July 11th, 2018|

Out now! Cultural Memory Studies after the Transnational Turn. Special Issue of Memory Studies 11,3 (2018), edited by Astrid Erll and Ann RigneyFeaturing: Astrid Erll: “Homer: A Relational Mnemohistory“; Aleida Assmann: “One Land and Three Narratives: Palestinian Sites of Memory in Israel“; Barbara Törnquist-Plewa: “The Transnational Dynamics of Local Remembrance: [...]

Call for Papers: Third Annual Memory Studies Association Conference

June 28th, 2018|

Call for Papers: Third Annual Memory Studies Association ConferenceMadrid, 25-28 June 2019Deadline for applications: 01 October 2018Founded in 2016 in Amsterdam, the Memory Studies Association (MSA) aims to provide a central forum for developing, discussing, and exchanging ideas about the theory and methodology of the broad-ranging field of memory studies. [...]

Writer’s Talk with Verena Boos:

June 6th, 2018|

Writer’s Talk with Verena Boos:Ein Werkstattgespräch über die Schichten der Erinnerung in der urbanen Topografie BarcelonasFrankfurt, 26 June 2018 (12-2 pm, IG 1.414)Die katalanisch-spanische Aktualität ist ohne die Geschichte nicht zu verstehen. Im Konflikt um Katalonien wird weniger das katalonische Steuerdefizit als vielmehr Erinnerung verhandelt und aus einem spezifischen Geschichtsbewusstsein [...]

Presentation: “When would I enter that light beyond metaphor?”: The Burden of Antiquity

June 5th, 2018|

Presentation: “When would I enter that light beyond metaphor?”: The Burden of AntiquityFrankfurt, 21 June 2018 (12-2 pm, Cas 1.812)On the 21st of June, Madeleine Scherer (University of Warwick) will be visiting us in Frankfurt to discuss some of the strategies Caribbean writers Walcott and Harris have utilized to negotiate [...]

Two PhD Project Presentations:

May 29th, 2018|

Two PhD Project Presentations:Present-Tense Novels and Postmemorial MetafictionFrankfurt, 19 June 2018 (12-2 pm, IG 1.414)Carolin Gebauer and Sofie Friederike Mevissen (both: University of Wuppertal) will be presenting their research in Frankfurt on the 19th of June. Carolin Gebauer’s talk is called “Narrating (in) the Here-and-Now: Narrative Dynamics in the Present-Tense [...]

Workshop with Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø) and Stephanie de Smale (Utrecht University)

May 17th, 2018|

Workshop with Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø) and Stephanie de Smale (Utrecht University)Playful Memory-Making: Studying Memory in GamesFrankfurt, 12 June 2018 (16:15-18:00, Cas 1.812)This workshop will treat how games and play inform memory-making. By working with cases of games, participants will contribute with their own ideas, thoughts, and experiences [...]

PhD Project Presentation: Jordis Lau (University of Hamburg)

May 16th, 2018|

PhD Project Presentation: Jordis Lau (University of Hamburg)Foregrounding the Past – Literary Modernism into Media ArtFrankfurt, 29 May 2018 (12-2 pm, IG 1.414)Jordis Lau’s project is interested in the afterlives of modernist literature in the audio-visual arts. Video art, experimental film, and moving image installation art frequently appropriate modernist prose [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Julia Creet (York University, Canada)

May 9th, 2018|

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Julia Creet (York University, Canada)H.G. Adler as Modernist HistoriographerFrankfurt, 15 May 2018 (12-2 pm, IG 1.414)Julia Creet’s talk will introduce Adler as a modernist historiographer where the integration of the biographical, the historical and the literary becomes not just a question of the genre of [...]

Call for Applications: Summer School “Moving Image Memory Cultures”

May 4th, 2018|

Call for Applications: Summer School “Moving Image Memory Cultures”Potsdam, 24-28 September 2018Deadline for applications: 03 June 2018The innovative core of the international Summer School lies in its conceptual intertwining of two defining phenomena of current and recent times. These are, on the one hand, the memory boom that swept western [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Christina Morina, “Die Erfindung des Marxismus: Erfahrung, Idee und Engagement im Zeitalter der Ideologien”

May 4th, 2018|

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Christina Morina, “Die Erfindung des Marxismus: Erfahrung, Idee und Engagement im Zeitalter der Ideologien”Frankfurt, 09 May 2018 (6-8 pm, IG 411)In this New Frontiers in Memory Studies lecture, which doubles as a Mittwochskonferenz of the Frankfurt Humanities Research Centres, Christina Morina will be tracing the [...]

New Guest Researcher at FMSP – Emil Lundedal Hammar

April 12th, 2018|

New Guest Researcher at FMSPWe are excited to welcome Emil Lundedal Hammar from UiT Tromsø to Frankfurt this semester! Emil is a PhD candidate in Game and Memory Studies and his research project focuses on the intersection between digital games, cultural memory, and hegemony with particular attention to race & [...]

Programme: International Conference Co-Memoration: Limits, Challenges, and Possibilities in Contemporary Shoah Remembrance

March 9th, 2018|

Programme: International Conference Co-Memoration: Limits, Challenges, and Possibilities in Contemporary Shoah RemembranceFreiburg, 19-21 April 2018The programme for the international conference Co-Memoration: Limits, Challenges, and Possibilities in Contemporary Shoah Remembrance has now been published. Click here to see a PDF containing the programme and a description of the conference topic (in [...]

Call for Papers: International Workshop Commodification of History: The Past as Source of Entertainment and Commerce

March 8th, 2018|

Call for Papers: International Workshop Commodification of History: The Past as Source of Entertainment and CommercePrague, 15-16 September 2018Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2018The question how exactly history has been used in commercial settings, how the past is being transformed into history with a special commercial interest, has so far [...]

Call for Papers for Mnemonics 2018: Ecologies of Memory

January 25th, 2018|

Call for Papers for Mnemonics 2018: Ecologies of MemoryLeuven, 22-24 August 2018Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2018The seventh Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school will be hosted by the Flemish Memory Studies Network (a collaboration of the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative at Ghent University and KU Leuven’s Literary Studies [...]

Call for Papers: International Conference Nostalgies, mémoires et cultures médiatiques: entre esthétique, marchandisation et politisation

January 22nd, 2018|

Call for Papers: International Conference Nostalgies, mémoires et cultures médiatiques: entre esthétique, marchandisation et politisationUniversité du Québec à Chicoutimi, 10-11 May 2018Deadline for applications: 25 January 2018As part of the 86th convention of the Association Francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) a conference on nostalgia and memory will be held at [...]

Call for Applications: 2 Post-doc Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz

December 4th, 2017|

Call for Applications: 2 Post-doc Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study KonstanzDeadline for applications: 10 January 2018From 2018-2020, the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Konstanz will host a Research Group funded by the Balzan Prize that was awarded in 2017 to Aleida and Jan Assmann for [...]

International Conference: Image, History and Memory – Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe

December 4th, 2017|

International Conference: Image, History and Memory – Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern EuropeWarsaw, 6-8 December 2017Images as witnesses to history, materialized memories or their active co-creators? The multi-faceted relationship between the past and its visual representations will be the main focus of the 7th edition of the international [...]

Book Presentation and Discussion: Martin Aleida’s Tanah Air yang Hilang

November 20th, 2017|

Book Presentation and Discussion: Martin Aleida’s Tanah Air yang HilangGoethe University Frankfurt, 23 November 2017 (6 pm)The acclaimed Indonesian author Martin Aleida will read from his latest price-winning novel Tanah Air yang Hilang and will discuss his work with students and participants. The reading will be in German and Indonesian; [...]

Book announcement: Forensic Memory – Literature after Testimony

November 14th, 2017|

Book announcement: Forensic Memory – Literature after TestimonyJohanne Bøndergaard’s study of a new forensic literary mode has just been published in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies series. The book describes and analyses a particular literary mode that challenges the aesthetics of testimony by approaching the past through detection, analysis, and [...]

Call for Papers: International Conference Archives of Resistance: Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World Literature

November 13th, 2017|

Call for Papers: International Conference Archives of Resistance: Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World LiteratureLeeds, 20-22 June 2018Deadline for applications: 15 January 2018The aim of this three-day conference is to establish new critical positions in the burgeoning field of world literature, to provide critical interventions in current debates over the relation between [...]

Programme for the Memory Studies Association Conference 2017 now online!

November 3rd, 2017|

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 [...]

Final Publication of the COST action “In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe”

November 2nd, 2017|

Final Publication of the COST action “In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe”A volume called The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Transcultural Mediation and Reception, edited by Tea Sindbæk Andersen (University of Copenhagen) and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Lund University), has just been published with Brill. The book investigates contested and divisive [...]

Two New Guest Researchers at FMSP

October 23rd, 2017|

Two New Guest Researchers at FMSPWe are excited to welcome Delphine Munos (visiting as a Humboldt Researcher) and Ian Ellison (DAAD Visiting Scholar) at the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform this fall! Delphine will be working on a postdoctoral project focusing on narratology and 20th-and 21st-century minority/postcolonial literatures, while Ian is [...]

Call for Papers: International Conference Co-Memoration: Limits, Challenges, and Possibilities in Contemporary Shoah

September 20th, 2017|

Call for Papers: International Conference Co-Memoration: Limits, Challenges, and Possibilities in Contemporary ShoahRemembranceFreiburg, 19-21 April 2018Deadline for applications: 30 November 2017The organisers, Daniela Henke and Tom Vanassche, describe their intent with this conference as follows: “The aim is threefold. Firstly, we want to consider more instances of commemoration within German-speaking [...]

Videos of the Mnemonics Keynotes now online!

September 15th, 2017|

Videos of the Mnemonics Keynotes now online!For anyone who missed Mnemonics 2017 as well as for any participant who would like to see the lectures again, here is a link to video recordings of the three keynotes of the summer school we hosted in Frankfurt a week ago.The three lectures [...]

Video of Emilie Pine’s Lecture The Witness and the Archive

September 13th, 2017|

Video of Emilie Pine’s Lecture The Witness and the ArchiveYou can now view a video recording of Emilie Pine’s lecture with the title “The Witness and the Archive: Digitising Memories of Childhood Abuse in Ireland” here. This talk was part of our New Frontiers in Memory Studies lecture series this [...]

Keynote Lectures of the Mnemonics Summer School 2017

August 10th, 2017|

Keynote Lectures of the Mnemonics Summer School 2017Frankfurt, 7-9 September 2017 We are proud to be hosting the annual summer school of the Mnemonics network in early September this year here in Frankfurt. The topic of this year’s instalment of summer school series is The Social Life of Memory. While [...]

Call for Papers: Doing Memory of Right-Wing Violence in Mediated Public Spheres

August 1st, 2017|

Call for Papers: Doing Memory of Right-Wing Violence in Mediated Public SpheresTübingen, 15-16 October 2017 Deadline for proposals: 15 AugustThis international and interdisciplinary workshop is interested in innovative theoretical and empirical studies on doing memory of right wing violence: The long history of right-wing violence Western societies have witnessed since [...]

Call for Papers: MSA Forward – Early Career Researchers in Memory Studies

July 3rd, 2017|

Call for Papers: MSA Forward – Early Career Researchers in Memory StudiesCopenhagen, 13-16 December 2017 Deadline for proposals: 31 JulyThe Memory Studies Association’s second annual conference provides a forum for PhD students to explore the connection of their research to Memory Studies. MSA Forward offers a platform for exchanging ideas [...]

FzHG Lunch Paper mit Jan Rupp: Rituale erzählen. Krisenbewältigung in der englischen Moderne

June 28th, 2017|

FzHG Lunch Paper mit Jan Rupp: Rituale erzählen. Krisenbewältigung in der englischen ModerneFrankfurt, 05 July 2017, 12-2 pm (IG 1.414)Von der Markierung biographischer Übergänge bis zum kollektiven Reenactment von Geschichte erleben Rituale heute eine vielfältige Renaissance. Ein wichtiger Bezugspunkt für ihre jüngere Konjunktur liegt in den Ursprüngen von ‚living history‘ [...]

Religiöse Differenz in pluraler Gesellschaft:

June 26th, 2017|

Religiöse Differenz in pluraler Gesellschaft: Navid Kermani und Jan Assmann im GesprächFrankfurt, 28 June 2017, 6 pm (HZ 1)Am Mittwoch, den 28. Juni 2017 um 18.15 Uhr wird der LOEWE-Forschungsschwerpunkt “Religiöse Positionierung” der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen feierlich eröffnet. Als Gastredner konnten Dr. Navid Kermani und [...]

Photography Exhibition: The Act of Living

June 26th, 2017|

Photography Exhibition: The Act of LivingFrankfurt, 28 June to 10 July 2017 (PEG Foyer)Vernissage: 28 June, 6 pmThe vernissage of the photography exhibition “The Act of Living” will take place next Wednesday 28th June at 6 pm, in PEG Foyer, on the Campus Westend. The exhibition is the result of [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: The Witness and the Archive: Digitising Memories of Childhood Abuse in Ireland

June 7th, 2017|

'New Frontiers in Memory Studies: The Witness and the Archive: Digitising Memories of Childhood Abuse in IrelandFrankfurt, 27 June 2017 (12-2 pm; IG 1.414)In this lecture, Emilie Pine (University College Dublin) will consider the ways that digital approaches to archives can tell new stories and act as a belated form [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Indian Ocean Memories and African Migrants

June 5th, 2017|

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Indian Ocean Memories and African MigrantsFrankfurt, 13 June 2017 (12-2 pm; IG 1.414)Film Screening & LectureThis lecture by Shihan De Silva (University of London) concerns the easterly movement of Africans both voluntary and involuntary. The better known westwards migration tends to colour the perceptions of [...]

“Memory Talks” in the Post/Doctoral Perspectives Lecture Series

May 24th, 2017|

“Memory Talks” in the Post/Doctoral Perspectives Lecture SeriesGiessen, 08 & 22 June 2017The Post/Doctoral Perspectives Lecture Series of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Giessen University features two talks this summer term that will be interesting for memory studies scholars: On 08 June, GCSC/JLU doctoral researcher [...]

International Conference: The Subjective Museum – The Impact of Participative Strategies on the Museum

May 23rd, 2017|

International Conference: The Subjective Museum – The Impact of Participative Strategies on the MuseumHistorisches Museum Frankfurt, 26-28 June 2017By adopting participative strategies, individual experiences and subjective perspectives gain more and more importance in the museum. The conference brings together international voices to discuss the consequences of this turn to subjectivity. [...]

Call for Papers for Workshop: Memory Laws: Legal Regulation of Historical Interpretations

May 8th, 2017|

Call for Papers for Workshop: Memory Laws: Legal Regulation of Historical InterpretationsLjubljana, 13 October 2017Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2017This one-day workshop at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies) invites papers on topics related to legislation criminalizing genocide denial [...]

Call for Papers: Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association

May 1st, 2017|

Call for Papers: Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies AssociationCopenhagen, 14-16 December 2017Deadline for submissions: 01 July 2017This conference wants to address “memory unbound” as well as specific personal, familial or national memories and their mutual interrelations. It seeks answers to questions such as: How can memory studies continue [...]

Master Class “Film Heritage, Archives and Memory

May 1st, 2017|

Memory Studies Master Class with Dagmar Brunow (Linnaeus University): Film Heritage, Archives and Memory16 May 2017, Goethe University FrankfurtThis Master Class is addressed to all advanced students, PhD candidates and PostDocs who have a keen interest in memory studies and film studies. You will have the opportunity to discuss the [...]

New eJournal publication: Audiovisual Memory and the (Re)Making of Europe

April 26th, 2017|

New eJournal publication: Audiovisual Memory and the (Re)Making of EuropeThe Belgian-based eJournal Image & Narrative has just published a new issue with the title Audiovisual Memory and the (Re)Making of Europe, co-edited by Astrid Erll and Ann Rigney and featuring contributions by Sébastien Fevry, Silke Arnold-de Simine, Tea Sindbæk Andersen, [...]

Symposium: Colombia – Historical Memory, Post-Conflict and Transmigration

April 11th, 2017|

Symposium: Colombia – Historical Memory, Post-Conflict and Transmigration03-05 May 2017, Goethe University FrankfurtThe Department of Romance Literatures and Languages will be hosting an international and interdisciplinary symposium in Frankfurt, in collaboration with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. The sections will focus on questions concerning the peace negotiations and the conflict within Colombia; genealogies of [...]

Call for Papers: Mnemonics Summer School 2017

March 22nd, 2017|

Call for Papers: Mnemonics Summer School 2017Deadline: 31 March 2017Submissions for the sixth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school are now open. Titled “The Social Life of Memory”, this year’s summer school will take place from September 7-9, 2017 at Goethe University Frankfurt and is hosted by the Frankfurt [...]

Multimedia: New Videos – 2016 inaugural conference of the Memory Studies Association

February 28th, 2017|

Multimedia: New VideosVideos from the 2016 inaugural conference of the Memory Studies Association are now available online and can be found in our multimedia section. The videos include roundtable discussions on “Moving Memory” with Astrid Erll, Daniel Levy, Ann Rigney, and Michael Rothberg; “Do Memory Scholars Matter in Memory Politics” [...]

Lecture: norient.com – multimodale Musikforschung

February 27th, 2017|

Lecture: norient.com – multimodale Musikforschung09 March 2017, 7 pm On 9 March, Dr. Thomas Burkhalter will give a lecture at the Institute for Social Research (IfS), titled “norient.com – Multimodale Musikforschung”. His lecture reflects contemporary global music, sounds and noises from the perspective of musicethnology and memory studies. The musical [...]

Workshop mit Doris Bachmann-Medick (Giessen): Beschreiben oder Erzählen?

February 7th, 2017|

Workshop mit Doris Bachmann-Medick (Giessen): Beschreiben oder Erzählen?18 April 2017, 12-16 Uhr, IG 1.414Die Frage “Beschreiben oder Erzählen?” ist eine Herausforderung. Sie regt an darüber nachzudenken, wie die (Kultur-)Wissenschaften, aber auch Literatur und Kunst, eine Repräsentationsautorität ausüben, wenn sie Kulturen, soziale Gruppen und Personen darstellen. Was bedeutet es, wenn durch [...]

Presentation: The State of Memory Studies in Japan

December 20th, 2016|

Presentation: The State of Memory Studies in Japan13 November 2016, Goethe University FrankfurtOn Tuesday, December 13, 2016, Prof. Jun Yamana (Kyoto University) visited the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform (FMSP) and gave a talk titled “Gedächtnis-Forschung in Japan heute: Einige Bemerkungen [Memory Studies in Japan Today: Some Observations]”. In his talk, [...]

Visit from the Warwick Memory Group: Two Talks on Contemporary Transcultural Memory Media

November 3rd, 2016|

Visit from the Warwick Memory Group: Two Talks on Contemporary Transcultural Memory Media22 November 2016, Goethe University FrankfurtMaria Roca Lizarazu is a final-year PhD candidate in German Studies at the University of Warwick. Her doctoral project focuses on representations of trauma in German- and Austrian-Jewish Holocaust literature by the so-called [...]

Keynote Lecture: Odyssean Travels – Searching for Europe’s ‘First Memories’

October 27th, 2016|

Keynote Lecture: Odyssean Travels – Searching for Europe’s ‘First Memories’ September 2016, DublinListen to the keynote lecture by Astrid Erll (Goethe-University Frankfurt) recorded at ‘In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe’ conference, UCD, September, 2016. On the website you will also find Michael Rothberg‘s keynote lecture “Inheritance Trouble – Transcultural [...]

Conference: Thinking Through the Future of Memory

October 27th, 2016|

Conference: Thinking Through the Future of Memory3. – 5. December 2016, AmsterdamThe inaugural converence of the Memory Studies Association by Aline Sierp (Maastricht University) and Jenny Wüstenberg (York University) will take place from 3rd to 5th December 2016 in Amsterdam. Among many events, there will be a roundtable discussion on [...]

Conversation: Europe’s Migrants and the Shoah

October 27th, 2016|

Conversation: Europe’s Migrants and the Shoah25 September, Vienna Humanities Festival, ViennaMichael Rothberg is the leading Holocaust theorist in the United States and Saul Friedländer’s successor in the prestigious chair in Holocaust studies at UCLA. The pioneer of a post-colonial approach to the Shoah, he has, for example, explored the meaning [...]

Workshop: Transnational Perspectives on Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe

October 27th, 2016|

Workshop: Transnational Perspectives on Heritage in Eastern and Central Europe23-25 November, Justus Liebig University, GießenThe workshop is organised by the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, in cooperation with the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), University of Giessen, and the Imre [...]

Master Class: Postcolonial Perspectives on Europe

October 6th, 2016|

Master Class: Postcolonial Perspectives on EuropeOctober 27, Justus Liebig University, GießenThis winter semester, the GCSC at Justus Liebig University, Gießen is hosting a master class with Prof. David Simo (University of Yaoundé, Cameroon), who will give a presentation on “Postcolonial Perspectives on Europe: The Case of the Cultural Memory Construction”. [...]

Website Launch: Critical Encyclopedia of Testimony and Memory

October 4th, 2016|

Website Launch: Critical Encyclopedia of Testimony and MemoryThe journal Testimony between history and memory has set up an online dictionary with the objective of gathering words from the fields of testimony and memory, following a multilinguistic, multicultural approach in defining the terms. Additions to the encyclopedia are published in new [...]

Now available: Scales of Memory

September 17th, 2016|

Now available: Scales of MemoryThe new issue of the Australian Humanities Review, featuring a special section on „Scales of Memory“, edited by Rosanne Kennedy and Maria Nugent, is now online and can be dowloaded for free.Access Scales of Memory (scroll down to special section)

Conference: Locating and Dis-Locating Memory

August 29th, 2016|

Conference: Locating and Dis-Locating MemoryThe final ISTME conference “Locating and Dis-Locating Memory: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe” will take place at University College Dublin from 1-3 September 2016. Focus on the ways in which memory is located and dislocated through processes of production, transmission and reception, it will [...]

Conference Report: New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies

August 29th, 2016|

Conference Report: New Directions and Challenges in Memory StudiesA conference report on the symposium “New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies”, written by Jarula Wegner and published on H-Soz-Kult, is now available online. The event was coorganised by the GCSC, Gießen and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform.

Multimedia: New Videos – New Frontiers in Memory Studies

July 12th, 2016|

Multimedia: New VideosVideos of this semester’s New Frontiers in Memory Studies events, including a lecture by William B. Buxton (Concordia University Montreal) and a discussion between Verena Boos (author of Blutorangen) and Natan Sznaider (Tel-Aviv-Yaffo), are now available online and can be found in our multimedia section.Video of William B. [...]

Video: New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies

July 12th, 2016|

Video: New Directions and Challenges in Memory StudiesA video recording of Astrid Erll’s keynote lecture “New Directions and Challenges in Cultural Memory Studies: Past, Present, Future”, presented at the symposium “New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies” at Justus Liebig University, Gießen, is now available online. The event was coorganised [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: “Too Much Space and Too Little Time”

June 27th, 2016|

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: “Too Much Space and Too Little Time”30 June, 12-2pm, IG 1.414On Thursday, 30 June, visiting scholar William J. Buxton (Professor of Communication Studies, Concordia University in Montreal) will give a lecture titled “’Too Much Space and Too Little Time’: Harold Innis, the Northern Frontier, and [...]

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Geschichte und Geschichten des Schreckens

June 16th, 2016|

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Geschichte und Geschichten des Schreckens22. Juni, ab 13:15 Uhr, IG 1.414Im Rahmen unserer Lecturereihe New Frontiers in Memory Studies findet am Mittwoch, den 22. Juni, ein Gespräch zwischen Verena Boos (Autorin des Romans Blutorangen) und Natan Sznaider (Professor für Soziologie, Tel-Aviv-Yaffo) zum Thema: “Geschichte und [...]

Symposium: New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies

May 11th, 2016|

Symposium: New Directions and Challenges in Memory StudiesJune 14-15, Justus Liebig University, GießenAt a time when memory studies has become a fixture of the interdisciplinary research landscape, the two-day symposium “New Directions and Challenges in Cultural Memory Studies: Past, Present, Future” engages critically with the development of the field, the [...]

Presentation: Living Together With Difficult Memories and Diverse Identities

May 11th, 2016|

Presentation: Living Together With Difficult Memories and Diverse IdentitiesMay 24, 2-4pm in IG 1.414On Tuesday, 24 May, Ulla Savolainen (University of Helsinki), Priska Daphi (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Jens Zimmermann (Goethe University Frankfurt) will present the ERA.Net RUS Plus Project LIVINGMEMORIES, a multi-disciplinary project that analyses difficult memories and diverse [...]

Lecture: Life Narratives and the Sculpting of Gendered Trans-Regional East African Asian Memories

May 7th, 2016|

Lecture: Life Narratives and the Sculpting of Gendered Trans-Regional East African Asian MemoriesMay 12, 6-8pm in CAS 1.811On Thursday, 12 May, Prof. Mala Pandurang (Dr. BMN College, Mumbai) will visit Goethe University and give a lecture titled “Life Narratives and the Sculpting of Gendered Trans-Regional East African Asian Memories”. The [...]

Workshop: Working with Orality

April 25th, 2016|

Workshop: Working with OralityMay 3, 2-4pm in IG 251On Tuesday, 3 May, guest researcher and folklorist Dr Ulla Savolainen will conduct a workshop “Working with Orality: Interviewing as a Methodology of Memory Studies”. In the workshop, Ulla Savolainen will introduce interviewing as a methodology for memory studies. Giving examples from [...]

Welcome: Ulla Savolainen

April 25th, 2016|

Welcome: Ulla SavolainenWe warmly welcome this semester’s international visiting fellow Dr Ulla Savolainen from the University of Helsinki. Ulla Savolainen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies and currently working on oral history research on the internment, and its aftermath, of German and [...]

Lecture: La Memoria y el relato de la nación

April 14th, 2016|

Lecture: La Memoria y el relato de la naciónApril 21, 10am-12pm, NG 2.731On 21 April, Prof. Gonzalo Navajas (University of California, Irvine) will give a lecture titled “La Memoria y el Relato de la Nación” at Goethe University, covering works of Galdós, Malraux, Orwell and Cercas. The lecture is hosted [...]

Now available: Post-Yugoslav Constellations

April 4th, 2016|

Now available: Post-Yugoslav ConstellationsA new volume of de Gruyter’s book series Media and Cultural Memory (MCM) has been published: Post-Yugoslav Constellations: Archive, Memory, and Trauma in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Literature and Culture (eds. Vlad Beronja and Stijn Vervaet).Find out more about the MCM series

Nitbits: Short Talks on Key Concepts

April 4th, 2016|

Nitbits: Short Talks on Key ConceptsThe Network in Transnational Memory Studies (NITMES) and Utrecht University present the first round of NITBITS, in which leading scholars discuss key concepts of memory studies, from “cultural memory”, to “remediation”, to “travelling memory”. Talks by Aleida Assmann, Andrew Hoskins, Barbara Törnquist Plewa, Ann Rigney, [...]

Online Dictionary: Testimony Between History and Memory

April 3rd, 2016|

Online Dictionary: Testimony Between History and MemoryThe journal Testimony between history and memory has set up an online dictionary with the objective of gathering words from the fields of testimony and memory, following a multilinguistic, multicultural approach in defining the terms. The idea is to continuously add to the encyclopedia [...]

Podcasts: Irish Memory Studies Network

April 2nd, 2016|

Podcasts: Irish Memory Studies NetworkThe Irish Memory Studies Network aims to open up a critical dialogue across multidisciplinary aspects of, and international contexts for, memory studies, with a view to generating discussion across disciplinary boundaries and laying the foundations for collaborative research work. These collaborations are made possible through lecture [...]

Vortrag: Vom kulturellen Gedächtnis zur transkulturellen Erinnerung

February 22nd, 2016|

Vortrag: Vom kulturellen Gedächtnis zur transkulturellen Erinnerung24. Februar, 18:30 Uhr, Bibliothek der Alten, Historisches Museum FrankfurtWelche Bedeutung haben Globalisierung und Migration für das kulturelle Gedächtnis? Welche Erinnerungen bringen Migrantinnen und Migranten mit nach Deutschland? Wie werden Erinnerungen geteilt? Wer partizipiert an der deutschen Erinnerungskultur? Der Vortrag „Vom kulturellen Gedächtnis zur [...]

Multimedia: Transcultural Rewriting as Memory Practice

January 20th, 2016|

Multimedia: Transcultural Rewriting as Memory PracticeYou can now find a video recording of Liedeke Plate‘s (Radboud University) recent New Frontiers in Memory Studies lecture in our multimedia section (please note: a flash player is required in order to watch the video).

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Transcultural Rewriting as Memory Practice

January 5th, 2016|

New Frontiers in Memory Studies: Transcultural Rewriting as Memory PracticeJanuary 12, 12-2 pm, IG 1.414On January 12, the lecture series New Frontiers in Memory Studies will continue its special focus on transcultural memory and migration. The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform is happy to announce that Liedeke Plate (Radboud University) will [...]

Conference Report: Provincializing European Memory

December 22nd, 2015|

Conference Report: Provincializing European MemoryA report on the international conference “Provincializing European Memory”, organized by the Network in Transnational Memory Studies, led by Utrecht University, and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform (FMSP), has been published on H-Soz-Kult. A selection of videos is also available online in our “Multimedia” section.For more [...]

DFG Research Project: Migration and Transcultural Memory

December 3rd, 2015|

DFG Research Project: Migration and Transcultural MemoryThe Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform is pleased to present the launch of the DFG research project “Migration and Transcultural Memory: Literature, Film and the ‘Social Life’ of Memory Media”, focusing on the intersections of media, transculturality, and memory. The project revolves around the question [...]

Lecture: Projecting Memories of Migration

November 4th, 2015|

Lecture: Projecting Memories of MigrationNovember 24, 12-2 pm, IG 1.414This semester, the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform will continue its lecture series New Frontiers in Memory Studies with a special focus on migration and transcultural memory.On November 24, Daniela Berghahn (University of London) will visit Goethe University and give a lecture [...]

Provincializing European Memory: Videos

October 22nd, 2015|

Provincializing European Memory: VideosFrom September 24-25, we hosted the international conference “Provincializing European Memory” in Frankfurt, organized by the Network in Transnational Memory Studies, led by Utrecht University, and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform (FMSP). A selection of videos is now online.For more information on the conference, have a look [...]

Memory and Materialism

October 7th, 2015|

Memory and MaterialismThe fourth edition of the Mnemnonics Network for Memory Studies‘ annual summer school took place in London from 8-10 September 2015 and revolved around questions concerning Memory and Materialism.A short blog entry on the summer school is now online and can be found on the The Frankfurt Memory [...]

Indian Ocean Memories: Video

September 10th, 2015|

Indian Ocean Memories: VideoOn May 19, we had an Indian Ocean Memories Workshop in Frankfurt with a paper by Gitanjali Pyndiah with the title “Collective Amnesia, Denial or Disavowal of History? The Indian Ocean Islands of Mauritius and its Colonial Past”, followed by comments by Astrid Erll, Sissy Helff, and [...]

Forms of Forgetting: Video

August 16th, 2015|

Forms of Forgetting: VideoOn April 29, Aleida Assmann visited the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform and gave a public lecture on “Forms of Forgetting.”Her lecture was recorded and the video (flash player required) is now online.Link here

Days and Memory Forum

August 1st, 2015|

Days and Memory ForumThe Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies’ Days and Memory has posted a blog forum with Debarati Sanyal, Michael Rothberg, Ann Rigney, and Rosanne Kennedy. An introduction as well as four papers originally presented at the Modern Language Association Convention in Vancouver in January 2015 on [...]

Transnational Memories: Sites, Knots, Methods

July 19th, 2015|

Transnational Memories: Sites, Knots, MethodsA Dialogue on the Ethics and Politics of Transcultural MemoryAn exchange between A. Dirk Moses and Michael Rothberg in which they discuss the premises and implications of transcultural memory has been posted to the Days and Memory blog. The dialogue is a preview of a forthcoming [...]

Forensic Memories: After Testimony

July 13th, 2015|

Forensic Memories: After TestimonyJohanne Helbo Bøndergaard has published an article on the research she conducted as a visiting researcher at the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform through the Short Term Scientific Mission programme of the COST network “In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe” (ISTME) during the summer term 2014: “Forensic [...]

Now available: Two new volumes in the book series Media and Cultural Memory (MCM):

July 12th, 2015|

Now available: Two new volumes in the book series Media and Cultural Memory (MCM):The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film (eds. Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz), with an article by Hanna Teichler on Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, andTransnational Memory – Circulation, Articulation, Scales (eds. Chiara de Cesari and [...]

Mobilizing Memory for Change

June 20th, 2015|

Mobilizing Memory for ChangeA film about the conference of the COST network ‘In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe’ (ISTME) held at Central European University, Budapest in September and October 2014 can be found online here.An article documenting the conference can be found here.

Immigration and Memory

June 10th, 2015|

Immigration and MemorySébastien Fevry has published an article on the research he conducted as a visiting researcher at the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform during the summer term 2014: “Immigration and Memory in Popular Contemporary French Cinema: The Film as ‘Lieu d’Entre-Mémoire''”A pdf file of this article can be found on [...]