I created this original painting as a visual exploration of those very themes of remembrance, resistance, and historical justice. See you all to have more discussion on How Iraqi Novels Challenge Power and Recover Unwritten Histories) #BRISMES2026 #MemoryStudies #TraumaStudies

"It (𝐿’𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙) also has a space between a vacuum and emptiness. It seems like a passage to the other side, but it also can look like emptiness, like a space where something is missing, where a million people are missing and are not there. This emptiness can also represent the silence of the international community." 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐚, 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝐿'𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 1994 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖 𝑖𝑛 𝑅𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠, 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙 𝐹𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 24. Photo courtesy: Grada Kilomba. #CulturalMemory #MemoryStudies #GenocideAgainstTheTutsi #Rwanda #France #DigitalMemory

Tomorrow #MEMPOP will organize a roundtable 'Memory and Populism in Borderland Regions in Eastern and Central Europe' as part of the dMSA series of digital lectures. More info and link for participation --> memorystudiesassociation.org… #MemoryStudies #ERC

Residual Memory — The 1st Ever BlissFlip Used Objects Symposium: By Atmo Advait #LiteraryEssay #Philosophy #ObjectMemory #MaterialCulture #Consciousness #ExperimentalWriting #SpeculativeFiction #Psychology #MemoryStudies #WritersOfX medium.com/new-literary-soci…

🌊 Lucía Bennett Ortega presents: 
 “The Shape of Memory at the Edge of the Human in Richard Powers’ Playground (2024)” 🧠🌍 📍 Session 11 – Posthuman Assemblages (II) 
 #MemoryStudies #EnvironmentalHumanities

**International Museum Day** In the current moment in time, museums are increasingly being asked to do more than ever before: - heal social fragmentation, - foster dialogue, - address historical injustice, - embrace digital transformation, - remain financially resilient, - support wellbeing, - combat disinformation, and somehow still - preserve, research, interpret, educate, and inspire. ICOM’s 2026 theme — “Museums Uniting a Divided World” — feels especially significant at this moment. This is so because the world is not only politically divided; it is epistemically divided, economically divided, algorithmically divided, and increasingly fragmented in how truth, identity, and memory themselves are understood! Perhaps this is precisely why museums matter now more than ever. Not because museums are neutral spaces but because they remain among the few institutions where complexity can still exist without immediately collapsing into outrage or ideological reduction. A museum, at its best, is one of the last places where societies can encounter ambiguity, - where difficult histories can coexist; - where silence has interpretive value; - where objects resist simplification; and - where memory is negotiated rather than merely consumed. The future museum may therefore need to become something larger than a repository of collections. Perhaps in an age of endless reaction, the museum’s most radical act may simply be to preserve the possibility of thoughtful reflection! #ICOM #InternationalMuseumDay #MuseumsUnitingADividedWorld #Museums #MuseumStudies #Museology #FutureOfMuseums #MuseumLeadership #MuseumInnovation #MuseumCommunity #CulturalHeritage #PublicCulture #CulturalPolicy #CreativeEconomy #CulturalInfrastructure #Archives #MemoryStudies #DigitalTransformation #KnowledgeSystems #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #CollectionsManagement #MuseumTech #CuratorialPractice #ExhibitionDesign #CulturalDiplomacy #Education #KnowledgeEconomy #Libraries #Research #MuseumsForEducation #CommunityEngagement #MuseumProfessionals

This week, students in our PSIR 461 Politics of Memory course, led by Devrim Sezer, visited APİKAM (Ahmet Piriştina City Archive and Museum). #collectivememory #urbanmemory #culturalheritage #Izmir #APİKAM #memorystudies #politicsofmemory #politicaltheory

𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀; 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. In a remarkable contribution to memory studies and cultural historiography, Dr Sayantan Thakur, Assistant Professor, Department of Literature and Languages, explores how Bengali folk songs preserve the lived experiences of migration, exile, Partition, and displacement in the research paper, “Echoes of the Uprooted: Separation and Nostalgia in the Bengali Folk Songs of Wanderers and Exiles”. Published in the prestigious journal ‘Memory Studies’ (SAGE, Scopus Q1), the study highlights how folk traditions become powerful emotional archives for communities whose voices are often absent from official histories. Through themes of longing, separation, grief, and remembrance, these songs reveal the emotional realities of rural communities, labourers, and women affected by migration and social upheaval. The research demonstrates that folk songs are far more than cultural expressions; they are living records of resilience, identity, and resistance. By foregrounding oral traditions and marginalised voices, the study encourages a more humane and inclusive understanding of history while emphasising the importance of preserving intangible cultural heritage in a rapidly changing world. #SRMUniversityAP #SRMAP #SRMAmaravati #SRM #SRMUniversity #SRMAPResearch #ResearchAtSRMAP #MemoryStudies #FolkMusic #CulturalHeritage #PartitionStudies #OralHistory

This week, our PSIR 461 Politics of Memory students, led by Devrim Sezer, visited the İzmir Jewish Heritage Project as part of the course’s exploration of different forms of forgetting and remembrance. #collectivememory #Izmir #memorystudies #politicsofmemory #devrimsezer

Join us in January for a Media and Memory course you can study flexibly, 100% online. In this postgraduate-level online short course, you’ll discover how a wide range of media shape our understanding of the past. #onlinecourse #memorystudies #media abdn.io/1T9

How does history become sacred in moments of crisis? Sacralization of History in Times of Crises (ed. Liliya Berezhnaya & Heidi Hein-Kircher). 🔗 aup.nl/en/book/9789048570171… #MemoryStudies #EasternEurope #ReligionAndPolitics #ConflictStudies

How do we remember the past in today’s world? Join us online to examine questions of identity and memorialisation. Starting in January: online short course on Media and Memory. #MemoryStudies #CulturalIdenity #onlinecourses abdn.io/1N6

Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending the Inaugural Professorial Lecture of Professor Roisín Higgins at @MaynoothUni — it was a moving and memorable occasion. Professor Higgins spoke with great insight and sensitivity about her project, Sensing the Troubles, which explores how people experienced Northern Ireland’s Troubles through the senses — through the sounds, smells, and textures of daily life. She spoke of “putting together the shards of memory” to reveal new ways of understanding the past. This powerful phrase has stayed with me. Warm congratulations to Professor Higgins on an inspiring inaugural lecture! #MaynoothUniversity #FacultyOfArtsAndHumanities #InauguralLecture #SensingTheTroubles #HumanitiesResearch #MemoryStudies #AcademicCommunity @MaynoothHist @MU_Research

Today we started with Panel 8: New Themes, Comparative Perspectives & Innovative Methodologies, exploring fresh approaches to studying cities of migration, from QCA comparisons to transnational homeownership between Toronto & Istanbul, and bridging #migration with #memorystudies

Almanya’dan güzel haberlerim var🎈 📢 Konferans ve Bildiri Çağrısı Ege’nin Gölgesinde: 1923 Türk–Yunan Nüfus Mübadelesi Sonrası Bellek, Kimlik ve Travma 🗓️ 12–14 Şubat 2026 📍 Justus Liebig Üniversitesi, Giessen (Almanya) 📝 Özet gönderim son tarihi: 1 Kasım 2025 📩 migrationsgeschichten@uni-giessen.de #CFP #Göç #BellekÇalışmaları 📢 Call for Conference & Papers The Shadow of the Aegean: Memory, Identity and Trauma after the 1923 Greek–Turkish Population Exchange 🗓️ 12–14 February 2026 📍 Justus Liebig University, Giessen (Germany) 📝 Abstract deadline: 1 November 2025 📩 migrationsgeschichten@uni-giessen.de #CFP #Migration #MemoryStudies

The final day of #GenealogiesOfMemory2025 in Berlin explored how WWII legacies shift across generations 🌊🕊️ From grassroots initiatives to postmemory & translation — how do we renegotiate what we remember, and what we forget? 🤔📸 #WWII #MemoryStudies

A month after the #MSA2025 conference in Prague, the journal @memorystudies has published a paper based on my PhD: "The emergence of trauma through language: How past conflicts surface as interpretative patterns in discourses of memory and identity". doi.org/10.1177/175069802513…

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New blog post by our PI @JohanaWyss on "mnemonic inclusion," exploring how populist politics give space to those left out of official memory. 👉mempop.org/mnemonic-inclusio… #MEMPOP #ERC #MemoryStudies #Populism

Join us to explore themes in the forthcoming OUP book Living without Memory: Amnesia and the Lives of Persons by Carl Craver and R. Shayna Rosenbaum. Full details, including in-person and online registration links, will be shared soon. #Amnesia #Identity #MemoryStudies