The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2019 fellowship program. In 2019, 6 fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem. Topics in the fields of twentieth century Jewish history, modern history, social welfare, migration, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival collections http
H-Memory is a network open to all academics and researchers concerned with Memory Studies. This inter-disciplinary field interests itself in how humans remember and represent that memory, be it through literature, monuments, historical works, or in their own private lives.
Call for papers
Africa Chapter of the Memory Studies Association Inaugural Conference
Memory in Africa: Transcultural Dimensions
17-19 October 2019, Pretoria
Within Memory Studies, a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary field of research internationally, the African continent, its people, diaspora and global linkages constitute neglected areas of research. This is despite the efforts of selected individual scholars and the International Memory Studies Association’s explicit mission to move beyond the Euro/Anglo centrism that has defined the early development of the field. This conference aims to
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and Newcastle University are organizing a conference on the topic “Who is Europe?”. It will be of interest to academics from a wide range of disciplines, as well as to museum and heritage professionals.
22-23 November (Thursday - Friday), POLIN Museum, free admission, BOOKING REQUIRED >>
Drawing on the notion of crisis, we will reflect on questions of transformation and belonging relating to: dynamics of European identities; strategic uses of European heritages; and the Europeanisation of memory.
Program available HERE [PDF] >>
The CoHERE project seeks to
‘Narratives of Forced Migration in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries’
University of Stirling, 16-18 September 2019.
Confirmed Keynotes:
Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge (University of Birmingham)
The last century has seen millions of people displaced around the world as the result of war, persecution, or the end of empire. The current ‘migrant’ or ‘border crisis’ in the Mediterranean triggered by the war in Syria, uneven development in the Global South, and climate change is the most recent example of a succession of instances of forced mass