Other FMSP Events
Current Events for
Archived Events
Cancelled: Remembering the Cinema Experience of 1950s to 1970s in Sivas
Zeynep Gültekin Akçay
02/12/2025 4:00pm, Campus Westend, IG 1.414
Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age
Jie-Hyun Lim
New Frontiers in Memory Studies
24/06/2025 2:00pm, Campus Westend, Casino 1.812
The Struggle Continues. Transgenerational Memory of the Ovaherero People's Genocide
Jephta U. Nguherimo (TraCe)
17/06/2025 6:00pm, Casino 1.811
FMSP Conversation: Holocaust Memory in Denmark and Poland
Katarzyna Anzorge and Marianne Kirk
03/06/2025 4:00pm, IG 1.414
Restitution, Repair, and Implication: Afterlives of Colonialism and the Holocaust in the Humboldt Forum
Michael Rothberg
New Frontiers in Memory Studies
07/05/2025 6:00pm, Campus Westend, IG 311
The “Creative” Manipulation of Human Memory by AI
Amar Singh
19/11/2024 4:15pm, Casino 1.812
Intertwining Memory with Narrative Tempo: Examining Memory through Narrative Pace in select Indian Novels
Shipra Tholia
Guest Lecture
12/11/2024 4:15pm, Casino 1.812
Postcolonial Memory Films in the Dutch-Indonesian and German-Namibian Context: De Oost and Measures of Men
Kaya de Wolff and Arnoud Arps
05/11/2024 11:40am, Casino 1.812
Between Empathy and Innocence: Prosthetic Memory and its Pitfalls in Iben Mondrup’s Greenland Trilogy
Emilie Dybdal
Guest lecture
29/10/2024 4:15pm, Casino 1.812
Correspondence from Portuguese soldiers, 1914-1918
Silvia Correia
18/06/2024 4:00pm, IG 1.414
Rethinking Cosmopolitan Memory in Post-Colonial Contexts. An international and interdisciplinary Roundtable.
Emily Keightley, Daniel Levy, Jocelyn Martin, Jephta N. Nguherimo
02/05/2024 6:00pm, Campus Westend, Casino, Room 1.811
Decolonial Memorialisation and Intersectional Sovereignty
Anoma Pieris
02/05/2024 3:00pm, Campus Westend, Casino, Room 1.811
Exhibition launch: Ulysses 100 exhibition at Goethe University
Emilie Pine, Astrid Erll, John Greaney
20/10/2022 5:00pm, IG Farben Building, Room 411, Campus Westend
Emilie Pine reads from her new novel "Ruth and Pen"
Emilie Pine
20/10/2022 5:00pm, IG Farben Building, Room 411, Campus Westend
Summer Semester 2018:
Project Presentations
PhD Project Presentation: Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø, Norway)
Playing the Past: The Hegemonic Memory Politics of Producing and Playing Historical Digital Games
Frankfurt, 24 April 2018 (12-2 pm, IG 1.414)
PhD Project Presentation: Jordis Lau (University of Hamburg)
Foregrounding the Past – Literary Modernism into Media Art
Frankfurt, 29 May 2018 (12-2 pm, IG 1.414)
Presentation: Madeleine Scherer (University of Warwick)
“When would I enter that light beyond metaphor?”: The Burden of Antiquity
Frankfurt, 21 June 2018 (12-2 pm, Cas 1.812)
Workshop
Workshop with Emil Lundedal Hammar (University of Tromsø) and Stephanie de Smale (Utrecht University)
Playful Memory-Making: Studying Memory in Games
Frankfurt, 12 June 2018 (16:15-18:00, Cas 1.812)
Summer Semester 2016:
Conference
New Directions and Challenges in Cultural Memory Studies: Past, Present, Future
Keynote by Astrid Erll at the symposium “New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies”, coorganised by the GCSC, Gießen and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform
(Astrid Erll)
Justus Liebig University, Gießen, June 2016
Video (scroll down to access video)
Project Presentations
Living Together With Difficult Memories and Diverse Identities
Project presentation by Ulla Savolainen (University of Helsinki), Priska Daphi (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Jens Zimmermann (Goethe University Frankfurt)
24 May 2016
Life Narratives and the Sculpting of Gendered Trans-Regional East African Asian Memories
Presentation by Mala Pandurang (Dr. BMN College, Mumbai)
12 May 2016
Activities
Working with Orality: Interviewing as a Methodology of Memory Studies
Workshop by Ulla Savolainen (University of Helsinki)
03 May 2016
Winter Semester 2015/16:
Activities
Vom kulturellen Gedächtnis zur transkulturellen Erinnerung: Neue Perspektiven auf die Bibliothek der Alten in der Migrationsgesellschaft
A lecture by Astrid Erll (Goethe University) at the Historisches Museum Frankfurt
24 February 2016
Summer Semester 2015:
Conference
Provincializing European Memory
International conference of the NITMES network
24-25 September 2015
Poster (PDF)
Project Presentations
Remembering the Temple of Jerusalem: the Image of the Future and the Memory of the Past
Project presentation by Yemima Cohen (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
21 April 2015
Activities
The Audiovisual Production of Transcultural Memory in Europe
Workshop of the working group Mediation in the COST-ISTME Network
Dubrovnik, 17-19 September 2015
Summer school of the Mnemnonics Network for Memory Studies
London, 8-10 September 2015
Indian Ocean Memories Workshop (co-organised by AFRASO & FMSP)
A talk by Gitanjali Pyndiah with comments by Astrid Erll, Sissy Helff and John Njenga Karugia
19 May 2015
Winter Semester 2014/15:
Activities
Digital Memories, Digital Methods: Transcultural Memory in Europe Beyond Web 2.0
Workshop of the working group Mediation in the COST-ISTME Network
Budapest, 29 September – 03 October 2014
Summer Semester 2014:
Activities
Summer school of the Mnemonics Network for Memory Studies
Stockholm, 21-23 August 2014
The Indian Ocean World: The Past Alive in the Present
Renu Modi, University of Mumbai (co-organised by AFRASO & FMSP)
19 May 2014
Winter Semester 2013/14:
Activities
National Celebrations and Cultural Memory in Multicultural Societies
Panel discussion
12 February 2014
Abstract (PDF) and Poster (PDF)
Battle Lines: Contested Remembrance and the Anzac Centenary
Guest lecture with Bruce Scates (Monash University, Australia)
12 February 2014
Poster (PDF)
Umwege – Detours: Moving Knowledge, Translating Identities
Workshop
6-7 February 2014
Flyer (PDF)
Summer Semester 2013:
Activities
Europe After Empire: Mediations of Imperial and Colonial Memory in Transcultural Perspective
Workshop of the working group Mediation in the COST-ISTME Network
Krakow, 16-18 September 2013
CFP (PDF)
Summer school of the Mnemonics Network for Memory Studies
Ghent, 09-11 September 2013
Winter Semester 2013/14:
Activities
Symposium
01-03 November 2012
My Grandparents – A Long-Term Project by Mats Staub
Special exhibition at historisches museum frankfurt
12 September 2012 to 27 January 2013
Guest talk by Astrid Erll: “Wie sich Familien erinnern. Der Einfluss von Medien und Dingen auf Erinnerungen.”
historisches museum frankfurt, 16 January 2013, 6 pm