Cultural Memory Studies Initiative

The Cultural Memory Studies Initiative @UGent conducts research on memory and trauma as mediated through culture. Join our newsletter:

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CMSI Newsletter: Featured Member, Events, CFP & New Publications - https://t.co/qCfKAtXyYe

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CMSI Newsletter - Upcoming Events: Memory & Responsibility, Non-Human Memory - https://t.co/aG3vBAaCDP

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CMSI Newsletter - Featured Member, Call for Papers, Upcoming Event, New Publication - https://t.co/v4Bm2eIaMJ

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CMSI Newsletter - Featured Member, Call for Papers, Upcoming Event, New Publication - https://t.co/7STzl7L8IO

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Next Tuesday, 29 October at 16:00, Ugent will host a CMSI Lecture by Giacomo Lichtner:

Voices from the Threshold: Cinematic Aesthetics of the Gas Chambers and the Search for Meaning

More info: https://t.co/gZGco6eZ4c

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CMSI Newsletter - Featured Member, Upcoming Events, New Publication - https://t.co/QDkstYpMCu

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CMSI Newsletter - Featured Member, Upcoming Events, New Publications - https://t.co/QDkstYpMCu

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CMSI Featured Member Series:
A new interview with Dr Mara Josi https://t.co/MZvdaLoERo
(@MJMaraJosi)

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On 15 November, Prof. Jeffrey Gibbons will run a workshop at Ghent University entitled “Nothing Ever Dies: Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved”.

For further info: https://t.co/LtoqCRFe1p

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We look forward to Dr Rebekah Vince's (Queen Mary, University of London) CMSI lecture:

The Shoah in Postcolonial Perspective: Etty Hillesum and her Moroccan Secret Sharer

Happening on Tuesday 21 May at UGent

Further info: https://t.co/DeK3johH3c

[Complicities in the SecondWorldWar @cultural_memory]

A new conference on the Cultural Memory of World War II

Complicities in the Second World War: Literature of Occupation, Collaboration, and Impure Resistance

4-5 October 2024 at @ugent

Cfp & Further info: https://t.co/vmwjKQlUSU

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🗣#CfP for the Mnemonics 2024: Violence and Repair!

❗The twelfth Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by @UCLA and its WG in Memory Studies and will take place in person between July 9-11, 2024.

📅Deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2024.

🔗https://t.co/KZ6tCGlHob

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🕯️ In Memoriam: Jan Assmann (1939 - 2024)

The field of memory studies mourns the loss of a visionary pioneer. Jan Assmann, whose seminal work reshaped our understanding of cultural memory, passed away on February 19, 2024, at the age of 85.

Full Tribute: https://t.co/ORvh5rKrwi

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Lecture by In Koli Jean Bofane on 11 March 2024:
“Et le Congo créa la littérature”

https://t.co/VZOmWOCTqi

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CMSI Lecture with Dr Sraddha Shivani Rajkomar (on 19 June 2024 at @ugent)

Translating Trauma, (Re)writing Memory: Mauritius and the Indenture Narrative

https://t.co/zjld0V2uUD

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Check out our spring 2024 newsletter: https://t.co/PJgQIkVxjJ.

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Cfp for a conference on the Cultural Memory of World War II at @ugent on 4-5 October 2024

Complicities in the Second World War: Literature of Occupation, Collaboration, and Impure Resistance

Further info: https://t.co/sSvZUmy6Uk

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CFP for a workshop at UGhent
Armed Archives:
Studying Archives of non-state Armed Actors: Methodological challenges and new research avenues

Deadline to apply 1 April 2024
Organised by TAPAS (Thinking about the past)

https://t.co/0gJyc5uoUr

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The CFP for the Mnemonics summer school on "Violence and Repair" (LA, 9-11/07/2024) is now open: https://t.co/Iq3y2mTvZx. Featuring keynote lectures by Susanne Knittel and Sonali Thakkar as well as a keynote screening of Pınar Öğrenci’s film Aşît and a discussion with the artist.

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CMSI Featured Member series:
Dr Brigitte Herremans talks about her current work, the power of the arts to address injustice, and the current situation in Palestine.
(@BriHerremans)
https://t.co/UGUcxBzo1P