The 2025–26 academic year was a busy and rewarding one for CIMS, marked by new conversations, strengthened partnerships, and a wide range of events bringing together colleagues and postgraduate researchers from St Andrews, across Scotland, elsewhere in the UK, and internationally. Throughout the year, CIMS continued to develop its existing relationships while also establishing new … 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
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
This event will be a Zoom webinar, Saturday March 8, 3-5 pm EST. Sign up is here. If you can’t make this screening and conversation, or the in person premier at the Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side on March 2, not to worry! Invitation from Alexandra Juhasz, creator of Please Hold: Please join editors and writers … Read more
11 February 2022 – Two new Memory Studies series: Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies In 2021 we have started working on the first volume in this series: Memory Studies in Southeast Asia: A Handbook, and will soon expand to cover more regions to offer a comparative insight in how Memory Studies applied to different … Read more
In August 2019, Karunika Kardak and Juan Mosquera (PhD students in the Spanish Department at the time) led a discussion with playwright, actor, theatre director and teacher, Raquel Diana (born in Montevideo, 1960). Her plays have received different prizes in Uruguay, including: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura de Uruguay (Premio Nacional de Literatura six times), … Read more
We wanted to take this opportunity to announce two new series we are thrilled about: Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies In 2021 we have started working on the first volume in this series: Memory Studies in Southeast Asia: A Handbook, and will soon expand to cover more regions to offer a comparative insight in … Read more
