Photo credit: still from Pınar Öğrenci’s film Aşît 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 … Continue reading →

Mnemonics Summer School, 2023: The Industry of Memory Goldsmiths, University of London; King’s College London; University of Westminster Programme 27-29 June Tuesday 27 June (venue: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster) 9.15-9.45: Registration  9.45: Opening Remarks  10-00-11.30: Panel 1: Nostalgia Industries Chair: … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Sandbjerg Estate, Denmark/Zoom August 18-21, 2021 Wednesday, August 18 15:00-16:00 Registration 16:15-16:30 Welcome: Hans Lauge Hansen, Jessica Ortner & Stef Craps 16:30-17:30 Keynote Barbara Törnquist-Plewa: Remembering Migration in Museums – Comparing Polish and Swedish Cases Chair: Hanna Teichler 18:00-19:00 Dinner … Continue reading →

© Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons IMPORTANT NOTICE (22 April 2020) Due to the coronavirus outbreak, this year’s Mnemonics summer school has been postponed to 18-21 August 2021 and the submission deadline has been extended to 31 March 2021. The ninth … Continue reading →

 MEMORY AND ACTIVISM 2019 Mnemonics Summer School Keynotes delivered at Utrecht University, 18-20 September 2019 1. Lorenzo Zamponi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence), “Memory in Action: Reflections on the Role of the Past in Social Movements” http://   2. Keynote and … Continue reading →

 MEMORY AND ACTIVISM Mnemonics Summer School 2019 Utrecht University Keynotes and panels will take place in the Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, Utrecht   Wednesday 18 September 9:00 – 9:45: Registration 9:45 – 10:00: Welcome and Opening Remarks 10:00 – 11:00: Keynote … Continue reading →

Ayşe 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 Mnemonics network in Utrecht, the Netherlands, … Continue reading →

The 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 reflect on new developments in the field of memory … Continue reading →

Audio versions of the 2018 keynote lectures are also available on the Mnemonics SoundCloud.

 Ecologies of Memory Mnemonics Summer School 2018 Lectures and panels will take place in Conference Room 1 of the Irish College in Leuven (Janseniusstraat 1). DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY, 22nd AUGUST 9:00 – Registration 9:30 – Welcome and Opening Remarks … Continue reading →

The 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 Research Unit) from 22 to 24 … Continue reading →

The Social Life of Memory Mnemonics Summer School 2017, Goethe University Frankfurt Lectures and panels will take place in rooms IG 411 (Thursday and Friday mornings, including lunch) and IG 1.314 (Thursday and Friday afternoons; Saturday) of the I.G. Farben … Continue reading →

The sixth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school will be hosted by the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform from September 7-9, 2017 at Goethe University Frankfurt. Confirmed keynote speakers are Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz), Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University, New … Continue reading →

The Other Side of Memory: Forgetting, Denial, Repression Mnemonics Summer School 2016 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign All lectures and panels take place at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the Levis Faculty Center, 4th Floor, 919 … Continue reading →

The fifth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school will take place from June 2-4, 2016 on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and will be hosted by the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies (HGMS). The theme … Continue reading →

Mnemonics 2015 will take place at two venues: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, London, UK W1B 2HW (8th September) and K2.40, Strand Campus, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS (9th and 10th September). Registration takes place … Continue reading →

Mnemonics 2015: Memory and Materialism Call for Papers For the fourth edition of its annual summer school, the Mnemonics network, an international collaborative initiative for graduate education in memory studies, invites paper proposals that address the relations between materialities and … Continue reading →

Thursday August 21  09:30-11:00         Keynote 1: Jussi Parikka, “Media Fossils: A Production of an Archaeological Future” (chair Jesper Olsson) 11:00-11:30         coffee break 11:30-13:00         Panel 1: Missing Media, Absent Archives (chair and respondent Stef Craps) Gitanjali Pyndiah (London), “Non-Archival Memory in … Continue reading →

For the third edition of its annual summer school, the Mnemonics network, an international collaborative initiative for graduate education in memory studies, invites paper proposals that address the relations between media and cultural memory. The study of cultural memory is … Continue reading →

You can keep up with the summer school on Twitter by following the hashtag #MnemonicsGhent or joining the twub we have set up for this event, which aggregates all tweets with this hashtag. You may also want to consider joining the … Continue reading →

Monday 9 September 2013 09.00 – 09.30:  Registration and welcome 09.30 – 11.00:  Keynote lecture by Anna Reading, “Assemblage Memory: Gender, Generation and the Roma” (chair: Stef Craps) 11.00 – 11.30: Coffee/tea 11.30 – 13.00:  Panel 1: (Dis)Identification and Media (chair … Continue reading →

Much to her and our regret, Susannah Radstone will not be able to attend the upcoming Mnemonics summer school after all, as she will be moving to Australia in early September to take up a new post there. The good news, though, … Continue reading →

Registration for the 2013 Mnemonics Graduate Summer School “Memory Unbound: Transcultural, Transgenerational, Transmedial, and Transdisciplinary Dynamics of Memory” (Ghent, 9-11/09/2013) is now open. All successful applicants – and only they – are invited to register by 15 May 2013 by filling … Continue reading →

For the second edition of the annual summer school organized by the Mnemonics network, an international collaborative initiative for graduate education in memory studies, we invite paper proposals from graduate students that address the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and/or transdisciplinary dynamics … Continue reading →

September 20 (room 212) 14:00  Registration and welcome (NB! in building 1585, the foyer) 14:30  Keynote, Andrea Pinotti: ‘Monument Nonument: The Paradoxes of Monumental Memory (chair: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen) 15:45  Coffee 16:15  Panel 1: Forms of historical representation (chair: Stijn Vervaet) … Continue reading →

For the inaugural seminar of Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies, a newly established international collaborative initiative for graduate education in memory studies, we invite paper proposals from graduate students on the relations between the aesthetics and ethics of memory. Aesthetics … Continue reading →