AUP and CEU Press will attend the 9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association!
The conference will be held from 14 to 18 July 2025 at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in the historic city of Prague. This on-site conference aims to carry over from earlier conferences a transdisciplinary conversation on memory and its social, cultural and public relevance.
In 2025, here will be commemorated many significant anniversaries, such as the end of World War II (1945) and the end of the Vietnam War (1975). Will be mourned the victims of the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia (1995) and the massacres in Sudan (2005). With the theme Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability, the conference seeks to explore how the memory of these events and other critical turning points has led to new tensions but also generated new possibilities. What patterns of decisive change can we observe? What is the role of memory in these processes, and how have they been commemorated? How have such critical turning points and their actors been collectively remembered and commemorated? And what can memory teach us amid the ongoing polycrisis?
Organized in the shadow of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, the rise of populist and authoritarian tendencies all over the world, imminent climate collapse and humanitarian crises including ones in public health, Beyond Crises invites a multifaceted discussion on what memory scholars can learn from the memory of earlier crises and how that knowledge might be used to deal with ongoing political and social standoffs. Looking at shared and divided memoryscapes and the voices of marginalized communities, the conference will make a major contribution to the understanding of how societies remember and learn from crises.
There will also be special events such as workshops, exhibitions and film screenings. To embed the conference in the beautiful city of Prague, we will also feature a cultural program (excursions and city walks) by cooperating closely with local memory activists, cultural partners and heritage sites.
For more information, including registration and program details, you can visit the official conference website: https://msaprague2025.dryfta.com/
Commissioning Editor Dr Andrea Talaber and Marketing and Sales Manager Anna Thornton will attend the conference, do get in touch if you would like to organise a meeting.