deadline for submissions: April 25, 2025
name of organization: University of Limerick, Centre for European Studies
Description:
The ways in which Europe remembers its past are central to shaping its future. From the memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War to the legacies of colonialism, dictatorship, and conflict, the continent’s history remains a site of both reconciliation and contestation. This conference invites scholars to explore the role of cultural memory in shaping European identities, values, and policies. How are memories transmitted across generations? How do different national narratives interact, clash, or converge within a shared European framework? What national and transnational memory cultures are created?
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Memory, Postmemory and European identity
- Sites and Spaces of Memory & Commemoration: Monuments, museums, and public memory
- Memory Cultures & Cultural Memory: How European societies remember and forget
- Transnational Memory Practices: Shared narratives across borders
- Post-War Memory: Remembrance, trauma, and reconciliation
- Holocaust memory and its contemporary relevance
- Digital memory and new media representations
- Memory & Politics: National identity, populism, and historical revisionism
- Media & Memory: The role of film, literature, art and music
- History & Testimony: Personal narratives and transgenerational transmission
- European / EU Policies and the preservation of memory
- Future challenges and directions
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