Memory Studies is an international and interdisciplinary convergence field. It addresses – broadly speaking – the interplay of past and present in sociocultural contexts. Memory Studies is interested in the social shape of individual memory as well as in the collective generation of past, present, and future.
The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform (FMSP) is an initiative of the Forschungszentrum für Historische Geisteswissenschaften (FzHG). It brings together people and projects from history, sociology, literature, arts, media studies, psychology, and other relevant disciplines in a dialogue about memory. It wants to shape the future of memory studies by developing and discussing new research questions and new methodologies.
The activities of the FMSP revolve around three main Research Lines: Transcultural Memory, the Mediality of Memory, and Memory and Narrative.
New Frontiers in Memory Studies Lecture Series der Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform:
Programm Wintersemester 2023/24
Annika Björkdahl (Lund University)
“Troubling Testimonies: Women’s Narrative of War”.
November 14, 2pm, HZ 14 (Campus Westend, Goethe University)
Co-organized with the BMBF project TraCe and the Marburg Center for Peace and Conflict Studies.
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Sakiru Adebayo (University of British Columbia)
“Postcolonial Memory”.
November 20, 2023, 6:15pm (Zoom).
Please register in advance for this event.
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Avishek Parui (IIT Madras)
“The digital/affective ecology in contemporary conditions of memory: A Case Study of the AR/VR app MovingMemory”.
January 18, 2024, at 4pm, Cas 1.812 (Campus Westend, Goethe University).
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Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent)
“Remembering Extinction. Slow and Fast Memories of Biodiversity Loss”.
January 23, 2024, 4pm, IG 411 (Campus Westend, Goethe University).
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Ansprechpartnerin: Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll erll@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Veranstaltungswebsite: www.memorystudies-frankfurt.com
