Caroline May On May 13, 2026, Professor Virginia Jewiss from Johns Hopkins University gave a talk on “Four Plaques and a Column: Rethinking Resistance.” The lecture invited us to think differently about monuments, memory, and the ways in which historical resistance is made visible in public space. While recent debates in memory studies have often focused on … Read more
01 April 2026, 16.00-17.00, BUC:216 Kevin SimpsonFootball under the Swastika: Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust Sport in the Nazi concentration camps and ghettos defies the modern imagination. Relying on long-forgotten memoirs and testimonies, Football under the Swastika reveals the surprisingly powerful role that the most popular wartime sport of football played during World War II. From … Read more
27 March 2026, 16.00-17.00, ARB: 317 – ARTS SEMINAR 7 Paul LeworthyScreening and Intervening: Documenting and Doing Memory Work in Das deutsche Volk Das deutsche Volk (2025) is a stripped-back, black-and-white, observational documentary directed by Marcin Wierzchowski that screens the events and above all the aftermath of the shootings in Hanau, Germany, in 2020, in which a … Read more
16 March 2026, 16.00-17.00, UCO: School II Kateřina KrálováHomecoming: Identities and Memory of the Holocaust Survivors and Greece In her guest lecture, historian Kateřina Králová examined the complex meanings of “homecoming” for Jewish Holocaust survivors from Greece. Tracing a continuum from wartime survival and displacement through liberation and the immediate postwar years, she argued that … Read more
The Directors of the Centre for Memory Studies, IITM, and the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute, University of St Andrews, welcome the creation of a joint seed funding programme between our two institutions. “The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and the University of St Andrews (St Andrews) have identified each other as … Read more
20 November 2025, 3:00–4:00 pm in Student Union, Seminar Room 101. At our recent postgraduate reading group, we discussed chapters three and four of François Jullien’s “There Is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity,” focusing on his distinction between “difference” and “divide” (écart) and on the conceptual importance of the interspace that opens between cultures. The discussion began … Read more
14 November 2025, 16.00-17.00, UCO: School II Craig Lamont‘When age speaks, youth listens (sometimes)’ In his talk “When age speaks, youth listens (sometimes),” Craig Lamont, Lecturer in Scottish Studies at the University of Glasgow, explored the centrality of memory studies to his work across disciplines and historical contexts. Drawing on research in literature, history, creative … Read more
The 2026 MSA Annual Conference will be held from 27 July till 2 August 2026 at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It’s overall theme is ‘Memory and Democracy’. Thematic Streams: If you are interested in presenting your research, the submission platform will be open from September 15 until October 15, 2025.Further information can … Read more
8 October 2025, 13.00-14.00, Buchanan 215 Kristen TreenU.S. Civil War Monuments: Forms, Feelings, Futures This talk will introduce the rationale behind Commemorative Cultures: The U.S. Civil War Monuments Project, a collaborative digital heritage project I run from within the School of English, via a discussion of literary responses to some of the Civil War’s (1861-1865) first … Read more
