Upcoming network events

20-22 September, 2012

Aesthetics and Ethics of Memory

PhD course hosted by Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Sharon Macdonald, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester.
Andrea Pinotti, Professor of Philosophy, Università degli Studi, Milan
Ann Rigney, Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University.

Aarhus University

Deadline for submission of proposals was 15 April, 2012.

6-7 December, 2012

Migration, Memory and Place

Seminar hosted in collaboration with Network for Migration and Culture

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Edward S. Casey (Stony Brook University)
Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University)
Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne)
Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Melbourne)
Sigrid Weigel (Technische Universität Berlin)

University of Copenhagen, 6 December
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, 7 December

Deadline for proposals 1 May, 2012

News

Memory related events:

  • Revival: Utopia, Identity, Memory. Revivalism in art and architecture. Workshop, June 20, 2012, and conference, November 23-24, 2012. The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Call for Project Participants Deadline April 16, 2012.
  • Digital Memories Seminar. Organized by the Centre for Media and Culture Research (CMCR) and the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (CCM). London South Bank University - K2 building, room VG11 - July 10, 2012.
  • Summerschool on Text - Memory - Monument. The use of the past in Italian Renaissance Culture. Rome July 17-29, 2012. Application deadline March 15, 2012.
  • Forgotten Voices? Remembrance of national-socialist persecution of Sinto & Roma in digital Oral-History-Archives and in the topographical memory of Berlin. 4th Summerschool of the Multimedia Archives at FU Berlin, July 29-August 4, 2012. Application deadline May 31, 2012
  • The Politics of Memory. 3rd International Conference on Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia, September 6-9, 2012. Abstract deadline June 1, 2012.
  • Regions of Memory. A Comparative Perspective on Eastern Europe. International conference, Warsaw November 26-28, 2012. Abstract deadline June 20, 2012

Recent perfomances by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Stefan Iversen on Memory culture are now awailable online (in Danish):

See also two recent articles by Britta Timm Knudsen on tourism and memory :

And an anthology on War, Memory and Emotions, co-edited by Kasper Green Krejberg:

About the network

The Danish Network for Cultural Memory Studies coordinates activities that facilitate interdisciplinary research within the field of cultural memory studies in a cooperation between researchers and graduate students at University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University.

The activities of the network is funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research in 2011-12 and will have a focus on the aesthetics of memory, the practice of memory culture, and memory cultures and transnationalism.

In 2011 and 2012 the network will organize series of 8 graduate seminars, some in cooperation with The University of London, 3 internal working seminars with all members of the network, and 3 open international conferences with invited guest speakers.

The directors of the network are Associate Professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus) and Associate Professor Frederik Tygstrup (Copenhagen).

 

On this site you can find information about the people involved, past and upcoming events, images, videos and texts from our seminars and links to other resources in the field of cultural memory studies.

Contact: memory@au.dk

Henvendelse om denne sides indhold: 
Kasper Green Krejberg

Revideret 15.05.2012