graduate conference in East European Memory Studies, Cambridge

[Alexander Etkind]

The Memory at War project is holding a 
postgraduate conference on Memory Studies in 
Eastern Europe on 11-12 March 2011 at the 
University of Cambridge.

The conference will be the first of a series of 
three to be held annually between the University 
of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and the 
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 
London.

In Western Europe and North America, Memory 
Studies have proliferated in the last decade, 
causing a ‘memory boom’ in the humanities and 
social sciences. Yet these methodologies have been 
slow to address the cultural dynamics of memory in 
Eastern Europe. This series of conferences seeks 
to address this gap.

The conference series is designed to provide a 
forum for the rapidly expanding number of 
postgraduate students pursuing research on East 
European memory. The conferences offer 
postgraduate students the opportunity to share 
their research in progress and to discover what 
research is being conducted beyond the confines of 
their home university. This is also a unique 
opportunity to receive additional feedback from 
more senior scholars, including international 
experts in the field, who will be acting as 
discussants on the panels. All in all, we see the 
conference series as an important step in the 
process of building up a vibrant and friendly East 
European Memory Studies research community.
The March 2011 conference is open to postgraduate 
students with an interest in any aspect of Memory 
Studies that relates to Eastern Europe. We 
encourage students of history, cultural studies, 
literature, media studies, cinema and the social 
sciences to apply. Undergraduates with an interest 
in going on to postgraduate research in the field 
are also more than welcome to attend.

Some funding will be available to cover travel for 
presenters within the UK and overnight 
accommodation in Cambridge.

DEADLINE: Please send an abstract of your paper, 
of no more than 300 words, to info at memoryatwar.org 
by 31 January 2011.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Alexander Etkind, Uilleam Blacker & Julie Fedor 
(Cambridge) Polly Jones (SSEES, UCL) Muireann 
Maguire & Josie von Zitzewitz (Oxford)

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