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

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

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

Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow@icom-memory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are very excited to officially announced that ICOM - The International Conference on Memory - is back in 2027 from 26th-30th July! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consider submitting a proposal for this upcoming hybrid conference on Archives and Ethics! Experts from all fields are welcome! padlet.com/dturner2_23/... @astonuniversity.bsky.social @astonpress.bsky.social

2026 AUAC Conference: Who is Responsible for the Archives?

Who is Responsible for the Archives? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethics in a Digital Age When: Friday 26 June 2026, 9:00–5:00 pm Where: Aston University campus in Birmingham, UK, and online (hybr...

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

📚 The PoSoCoMeS MSA Group invites you to a book seminar! 👉Join us for an engaging discussion on populism, memory, and democratic futures in the region. 🔗https://bit.ly/4rkfxet

📖Reading Group! 💡On 27 February, the Memory Studies Association’s MAWG is hosting an online reading group on Remembering Hope: The Cultural Afterlife of Protest by Ann Rigney. 🎤Participants are encouraged to read the book’s introduction and a chapter of their choice. 🔗https://bit.ly/4bX8lA9