Publishers Exhibit Hall

Multipurpose Quiet Room

EXHIBITION - Memory Palimpsests: Creative Approaches to Memory

Registration Day 2

Opening of Conference and Keynote Lecture - Indira Chowdhury: 'Memory, Orality and Learning: Reflections of an oral historian'

1.1. Town and City: memories of coloniality and race

1.2. Literary Perspectives on memory and decoloniality

1.3. Potent(ial) Archives

1.21. Remembering Transitions: Local Revisions and Global Crossings in Culture and Media

1.4. Immersed in the Past: Historizing Practices of Embodied History

1.5. Contesting and complicating memories of conflict in Northern Ireland: the role of oral history

1.6. Memory before Violence

1.7. Representation and Narratives in Environmental Memory: Thinking through Ecocide|Genocide

1.8. Financial Actors’ Collective Memory of Financial Crises. The Benefits of an Encounter between Collective Memory Research and Economic History

1.9. Steering Memory on/to the Right? Current Trends in Central European Politics and Media

1.10. Remembering through the image and the body in Latin America

1.11. Equitable Futures in Industrial Memories I

1.12. Memory and justice activism across the political spectrum

1.13. Indigenous memory activism in Latin America

1.14. Memory of activism and memory in activism

1.15. Identity and Memory of Conflict and Violence

1.16. War Narratives and Commemoration

1.17. Victims, Survivors, Perpetrators

1.18. Literary memoryscapes

1.19. Holocaust memoryscapes

1.20. Mining and Weaving as Artistic Strategies for Translating the Archive

Memory & Arts WG Lunch & Talk - ‘Weaving/Mining, or an Archive of Promise’

Memory Studies Review Journal Launch

Remembering imprisonment: memory at sites of incarceration

Resignifying contested histories through education and guided tours. Examples from Contested Histories Onsite

Between mind, media, and society: Visions for the interdisciplinary future of memory studies

SHORTS: Trojan Women (dir. Vicky Karaiskou) and A Short Film About Nostalgia (dir. Geetha Jayaraman)

Book presentation and conversation: Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From a survivor parent to the next generation

2.1. Reframing memory

2.2 Memoirs and self-narratives

2.3. Memory and Environment

2.4. Dynamics of exclusion and inclusion in post-conflict remembrance in Bosnia-Herzegovina

2.5. Remembering conflict-related sexual(ised) violence: autobiographical, cultural & institutional memoryscapes

2.6. Fighting Multidirectional Amnesias in Literature, Art, and Social Activism

2.7. Interscalar approaches to memory

2.8. Critical explorations of the nexus between memory work and social justice

2.9. GLOBAL MEMORIES WORKING GROUP PANEL I – LAWS, ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVISTS

Screening of Lubiana Laibach followed by Q&A with director Michael Pattison

2.21. Filmic memoryscapes

2.10. Remembering Postsocialist Transitions and Deindustrialization: Forms of Visual Culture and Literary Writing

2.11. Violent Histories and Right-Wing Politics in Family Memory

2.12. Museums and Memory #1: Jewish Memoryscapes

2.13. Mnemonic tensions in Canada

2.14. Mnemonic Migration in Literature

2.15. Penal Heritage in Transnational Perspective

2.16. Between Hope and Agency: The Memory of Emotions in Poland after World War II

2.17. Nordic experiences of unlearning and reinstating coloniality of memory

2.18. Queer Memory Studies? Rethinking Inheritance and Generations

2.19. Memory in Sight, Memory on Site: Commemoration in Place

2.20. Imagined memoryscapes

2.22. “Comfort Women” Research and Activism Across the World

2.23. Memory studies and the more-than-human

2.24. Spatial and social ecologies of embodied remembering: affects, places, skills

Plenary Event: 'Voces de la Democracia / Voices of Democracy'

A Wounded Landscape: bearing witness to the Holocaust - Gallery Opening & Exhibition Tour

Registration Day 3

Keynote Lecture – Andreas Huyssen: 'The Art of Memory Activism in the Global South'

Curious Monkey Caravan!

3.1. Relationships and belonging

3.2. Migration and place

3.3. Sites and Structures of Memory: Reshaping Post-Atrocity Societies through Public Engagement with the Past

3.4. Remembering Antiquity: A Longue Durée Approach

3.5. Memory Activism, Narratives of State Violence and Contested Solidarities

3.6. GLOBAL MEMORIES WORKING GROUP PANEL II – BODIES, ARTWORKS AND OBJECTS

3.7. Soviet War Memorials and Monuments in Post-socialist Countries and the War in Ukraine

3.8. Museums and Memory #2: Experiences and Memories of Refugees and Forced Migration in Museums and Exhibitions Today

3.9. Relational Approaches to Environmental Memory: Beyond Nature|Culture

3.10. Cultivating the Implicated Witness: Aesthetic Interventions and Commemorative Pedagogy

Staging Transitional Memory & Activating Communities of Justice through Performance

3.11. Memory & Arts Panel 1: Embodying Memory: Art, Ritual and Reenactment

3.12. Appropriating perpetrator perspectives - how post-war survivor communities integrated footage shot by perpetrators into their narratives of the Holocaust

3.13. Memories in Conflicts

3.14. Colonial imaginaries and the politics of Space, Place and Memory

3.15. Trauma and memory formation: digital collective memory, autoethnography, responsibilising trauma, object attachment

3.16. Equitable Futures in Industrial Memories II

3.17. EUROTALES - A Museum Lab of the Voices of Europe. Representing the Memory of Languages

3.18. Literary and artistic memory activism

3.19. Fictions, facts, and counter-memories

3.20. Material memoryscapes

3.21. Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989

3.22. Why Antifascism? New Perspectives on a Forgotten Paradigm. A Roundtable Discussion

3.23. Feeling Implicated: Affect, Responsibility, Solidarity

3.24. The Future of Memory Ethics and the Right to Memory

Memory & Arts Working Group Business Meeting

4.1. Remembering Colonial Violence

4.2. Place and belonging

4.3. Documenting and dramatizing migrant memory

4.4. Trauma, solidarity and justice

4.5. GLOBAL MEMORIES WORKING GROUP PANEL III – GEOGRAPHIES, SOCIETIES AND CHANGES

4.6. Paisajes MemoriALes: entre ficciones, imágenes y vínculos

4.23. Roundtable Discussion: Memory Studies and the journal National Identities

4.7. Museums and Memory #3: Race, Memory and the Museum

4.8. Periodicals and African Memory

4.9. Conspiratorial Memory Online: Post-Socialist Perspective

4.10. Memory Rituals and Rituals of Remembrance – Forging the Origins of Nations, States, Religions, and People

4.11. Contesting the Coloniality of Memory

4.12. Memory+Activism+Environment

4.13. Memory and the Trauma of the Other: Intergenerational trauma, memory ruptures, witnesses and listeners

4.14. (De)Mobilising the Past in Revolutionary Momements: #IranPortests2022 and Politics of Remembering

4.15. Memory and the responses to repressive regimes

4.16. Memorials, landscapes, and cultural matters

4.17. Memory and the archive

4.18. Deindustrialization and Memory I: Communities

4.19. Performing memories

4.20. Transitional Justice and Dealing with the Past

4.21. Monumental memoryscapes

4.22. Writing War and the Ephemera Effect

SHORTS: Shukran (dir. Alessio Mazzaro) and Siege in the Air (dir. Muntaha Amin)

4.24. Workshop: Getting to know the Slow Memory Project

Screening of Iorram (Boat Song) followed by Q&A with director Alastair Cole

MSA Members Meeting

Conference Drinks Reception

Future Pasts: Henna Asikainen in conversation with Professor Maggie O’Neill

A Wounded Landscape: bearing witness to the Holocaust - Gallery Opening & Cinema Screening

Registration Day 4

5.1. Jewish tradition, remembering and belonging

5.2. Space, community and multiple belonging

5.3. Visual, object and personal memories

5.4. Public Monuments in Greece: Local Communities between Memory and Oblivion

5.5. Russia's War on Ukraine I: Memory Dynamics since 2014

5.6. Ethnicity, Violence, and Vulnerability: How to Understand Difference within European Societies

5.7. A 50 años del “11” chileno: articulaciones y paisajes culturales de las memorias

5.8. Perpetrator spaces: preservation, representation and memory

5.9. Infrastructures of Collective Memory. Actants of the globalization process and their impact on European Cultures of Memory

5.10. Museums and Memory #4: On Relationality and Repair: the Temporality of Cultural Memory

5.11. Decolonisation and national memory

5.12. Local, National, and International Encounters with Visual Memory

5.13. Decentering Polish Memory I: Parallax Perspectives on East-Central European Pasts

5.14. Memory Activism and Marginality

5.15. Visual memories

5.16. Generations and memory

5.17. Deindustrialization and Memory II: Reconstructions and Landscapes

5.18. Memories of war and gendered violence

5.19. Holocaust Literature

5.20. Between Official and Counter-Memory

5.21. Literary Works of Memory

5.22. Interrogating memoryscapes

5.23. The ethics of community-led practices of remembrance: a roundtable on methodologies of participatory memory work

5.24. Polish emigre theatre in the UK: performing the memory

5.25. Contested Memoryscapes: Politics of Commemoration, Celebration, and Forgetting in/of the Turkish Republic

Decolonizing Memory & Nature Scholarship, Practice, and Activism

6.1. Colonial Memories/Memories of Colonialism

6.2. Settler Colonial Memory Vs. Indigenous Perspectives

6.3. Borders and places

6.4. Memory and Tourism I: Mediated Memory-Making in Tourism

6.5. The Axis Powers in Cultural Memory: Transnational Tropes and (Un)Critical Storytelling about World War II

6.19. Environmental Memory and Ecofiction

6.6. Russia's War on Ukraine II: Memory and Memorials since 2022

6.7. Contentious memory of the Estallido Social within the constitutional moment in Chile

6.8. Decentering Polish Memory II: Entangled narratives about difficult pasts in Poland

6.9. Memory, Space & Place

6.10. Feminist, queer & intersectional memory activism

6.11. Digital practices & memories

6.12. Memory sites / sites for memories

6.13. Deindustrialization and Memory III: Reinventions

6.14. Embodying memories, transforming memories

6.15. Memories of Displacement

6.16. Political Violence, Populism and the Far-Right

6.17. Digital memoryscapes

6.18. Mapping memoryscapes

6.20. Intergenerational Memory and the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi

6.22. Museums and Memory #5: Analysing Museums’ Memory Work - A Methodologies Workshop

6.21. Book Discussion: Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories

Memory & Arts WG Lunch and Talk - 'Invisibility, Embodiment and Patterns of Memory'

MSA Mentorship lunchtime meet & greet

7.1. Decolonizing Memory

Memory & Arts WG Workshop with Andreas Huyssen - "Memory Debates – Memory-Scapes: Politics of Contemporary Art from the Global South" (limited numbers)

7.2. Transmission and emotion

7.3. Multifaceted Uses of Memory: Hegemonic, Silenced, and Instrumentalised Memory of Colonial Past and Present

7.4. Belonging, Justice and Change: The Roles of Memory in Constructing and Deconstructing Identity in Post-Conflict Societies

7.5. Partition at 75

7.6. Remembering Terror

7.7. Memorias afectivas / memorias afectadas: relaciones, conexiones y activismos de memoria en soportes mediales (redes sociales, fotografías y cartografías)

SHORTS: Mother/Country and Closer (dir. Tina Gharavi)

7.8. Concepts of commemoration beyond reconciliation: resistance, repair and resilience

7.9. Memory, Violence, Conflict and Peace-building

7.10. Decolonisation and memory landscapes in Africa

7.11. From local contexts to global conflicts: Memory in post-Soviet space and beyond

7.12. Memory and Tourism II: Performances and infrastructures

7.13. Everyday Memory and Post-industrial Contested Memoryscapes

7.14. Urban memory and social justice activism

7.15. Transgenerational memory, education, museums and activism

7.16. Heritages, public spaces, and community-making

7.17. Virtual memoryscapes

7.18. Launching the Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism

7.19. Emotion Space and Society Inaugural Lecture

Screening of the Arnait Video Collective of Inuit Women Filmmakers film Before Tomorrow followed by a Q&A with co-founder Marie-Hélène Cousineau

Memory and Community: Sites of Conscience around the World

Memory Studies in Spain: Comparative Perspectives

Where next for the activist turn in memory studies? (Launch of the The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism)

Partition at 75 – The role of art and culture in postcolonial memory after Partition

Plenary Roundtable: 'Historical Memory Wars: From German Exceptionalism to Post-Coloniality'

Deconstructing the Construction of Memory through Film: "The Wolf Suit" screening and discussion

8.1. Files successfully deleted? Imperial memory politics in Russian culture (1721 -1917)

8.17. Memoria, verdad, justicia y reparación a través de América latina, en un marco decolonial / Memory, truth, justice and reparation across Latin America within a decolonial framework

8.2. Reconciliation and its Sites of Memory

8.3. Migration, Memory, and Belonging in Post-Socialist Britain

8.4. Shaping the Past in the Present: The Art, Politics and Affects of Holocaust Memory Narratives

8.5. Memory and Emergent Identities

8.6. Interdisciplinary and multimodal perspectives on mnemonic communities: Initiatives, mechanisms, and media in the post-Yugoslav space

8.7. Memoryscapes of Future Communities 1: Performing Waste

8.8. Museums and Memory #6: Exhibits as Transgenerational and Transmedial

8.9. ‘Made material, spoken, and witnessed’: Transnational feminist activism in memorializing racialized gendered violence

8.10. Post-, anti-, or de-colonial? Discourse on decolonization in memory studies on/ in Ukraine

8.11. Archives, media and memory activism

8.12. Memory and affective practices

8.13. Literary Articulations of Trauma

8.14. Excavating memoryscapes

8.15. Experimental memoryscapes

8.16. Building Narratives and Deconstructing Hegemony in Northeast Asian Memorymaking

Engaging Young People at Sites of Conscience: A Workshop with Lebogang Marishane

A memory itinerary of the Spanish Civil War in Newcastle

9.1. Memory and Post/Decolonization in (Post)Soviet Context

9.2. Shifting and contested memories of colonialism

9.3. Remembering Activism

9.4. Decolonising Memory of the Dutch East Indies

9.5. Memoryscapes of Future Communities 2: Territories of Waste

9.6. Re/creating belonging in and through museums

9.7. Memory & Sport: Exploring New Connections across Disciplinary Communities

9.8. Memory & Arts Panel 2: Reading Memory Images

9.9. Testimony, art and memory activism

9.10. Migration, activism and memory

9.11. Performance and memory practices

9.12. Memory and sensory approaches

9.13. Memory Perspectives on the Russian War on Ukraine

9.14. Sites of Memory and Violence

9.15. Material Cultures, Objects and Ethnographic Approaches

9.17. Representations of Violence

9.16. Urban memoryscapes

9.18. Bodily Memory in the Renaissance and the Contemporary Shakespearean Imaginary

9.19. Care, memory and the body

Memory & Arts WG Lunch and Talk - 'Contemporary Memory/Memorial as Hauntology'

Memory & Nature Working Group Business Meeting

PoSoCoMeS Working Group Business Meeting

Latin America Regional Group Business Meeting

Nordic Regional Group Business Meeting

Canada National Network Business Meeting

Future Pasts: an exhibition tour for MSA delegates

Memory Studies Research Centres Meeting

MSA Book Award Panel

Plenary Roundtable: 'Transformative Inclusivity in Memory Studies' / Close of Conference