The call for papers for the fourth annual conference of the Memory Studies Association of which Aline Sierp is the Co-Founder and Co-President is out.
The conference will take place from 5-9 July 2021 both in Warsaw and online. Deadline for submissions is 15 October, 2020.
Keynote speakers include Olivette Otele (University of Bristol), Ivan Krastev (Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia) and Michael Rothberg (University of California Los Angeles).
We welcome proposals for papers, panels, and other events to be presented at the Memory Studies Association’s (MSA) 2021 annual meeting. As always, the MSA will be a forum for debating all aspects of memory studies. However, given both the East-Central European context – a region fraught with overlapping memories – and the more general need to address the growing confluences of the global and the regional, the digital and the analogue, the human and non-human, we encourage papers that offer theoretical or methodological reflections addressing different layers of mnemonic entanglement.
On the leading theme of “convergences,” areas of interest – while in no way exhaustive – could include:
- Practical / Ethical COVID-19 Convergences
- Historical Convergences
- Political Discursive Convergences
- Institutional Convergences
- Biological / Ecological Convergences
In the submission system, you will be asked to select your preference of either online or offline conference participation (or both). The final format of the conference depends on the number of online/offline submissions; therefore we will announce the conference fee for different types of presenters as well as the exact timing for panels and other events presenters after the submission is closed. For panel organisers, please also select either the offline or online option (or both) for entire panels. Thank you for your understanding!
The MSA especially encourages panel submissions but also welcomes individual submissions. The panel should consist of 4-5 presenters, a chair, and optionally a discussant. You may appear as a presenter only once but can act as chair or discussant in more than one panel.
The organisers also welcome proposals of:
- roundtables of 5-7 participants with shorter statements and discussion;
- turbo sessions of 7-10 participants networking on a given research topic or common theme;
- special events including films, performances, art, exhibitions, etc. Please specify all technical conditions necessary for hosting such an event.
Participants of the cancelled conference in Charlottesville: If your abstract was accepted for that conference and you wish to give the same presentation in Warsaw, please resubmit your abstract and click the box indicating that it was a submission for Charlottesville. If you wish to submit a new abstract, it will be subject to review.
As always, the MSA will make available a limited number of travel grants for low-income members. Details will be announced later in the year.
Important dates:
Submission system opens: 1 September, 2020
Deadline for submissions: 15 October, 2020
Announcement of acceptances: 15 December, 2020
Registration deadline for conference participants: 30 January, 2021
Please direct all questions to: conference@memorystudiesassociation.org.
Note: all presenters need to be MSA members in good standing, having paid their membership fees.
