Event: Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies

This year's workshop invites participants to explore entanglements between material culture and memory studies. Over the course of two days, we aim to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue among early-career scholars, including doctoral researchers and postdocs in the fields of cultural studies, (comparative) literature, art history, environmental history, and anthropology. Rather than viewing materials, objects, geological strata and the environment as mere backdrops or passive settings, we seek to highlight how they function as both archives of (collective) memory and agents that foster memory practices outside, beyond, and at times against well-established institutions and dominant narratives. The workshop should serve as a platform to address theoretical difficulties that arise from focusing on materialities in the context of memory studies and a venue to present empirical case studies.

Interested people are welcome, registration is requested:

gsoses.conference​(at)​ur.de (opens your email program)