We are delighted to announce Eline Mestdagh as a co-chair of the Memory and Activism Working Group!
Eline Mestdagh is a historian and works as a FWO doctoral researcher at the Department of History at Ghent University. Among her interests are the recent manifestations of memory activism in the Netherlands and in Belgium […]
The upcoming Memory Studies Association conference will take place in Lima, Peru 18-20 July 2024. You can find the call for papers here. The deadline for submissions is 15 December 2023.
If you are interesting in proposing or joining a panel related to the theme of Memory and Activism, […]
Alexander Ulrich Thygesen is a PhD candidate at the Department of German and Romance Languages at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is working on a research project concerning the interconnections of memory and activism during […]
Daniele Salerno is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (2019-2022), working on the project “Cultural Memory in LGBT Activism for Rights” (MEMORIGHTS) with Prof Dr Ann Rigney and with the ERC research group “Remembering Hope: […]
In order to further facilitate debate among its members and other enthusiasts, MAWG has launched a series of reading groups. The idea is to have monthly online meetings in which we informally share our thoughts about the selected text.
Our first upcoming meeting is on Friday October 28 between 15:00 and 16:00. Please note […]
Contemporary repertoires of protest have been adapting to digitally-oriented media environments (Tilly 2006; Hoskins 2017; Treré 2018; Merrill, Keightley, and Daphi 2020), begging the question how they will be archived for the future. Since the global wave of protests against the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the […]
