Call for Applications: Mnemonic Encounters in Europe: New Directions and Dilemmas

We kindly invite applications from current doctoral candidates in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences whose research covers the broad topic of Memory Studies and deals with questions such as cultural, historical and collective European memory; official, vernacular, public, popular, local, and family memory in Europe; places of memory; memory institutions; European heritage; memory and forgetting; and/or politics of remembering.

The ‘Plurality of Memories in Europe in a Global Perspective’ project within 4EU+ alliance seeks to constitute a high level European scientific community in Memory Studies. The aim of our Ph.D. seminar/conference is to show compelling and innovative research, giving young scientists the possibility to present their work at the international forum.

Applicants are invited to submit their proposals in English (in a single PDF file), consisting of:

• an abstract (up to 200 words);
• informations of the candidate (a Ph.D. dissertation title, an academic discipline/field of study, and the university of origin).

Proposals should be addressed to the seminar coordinators, Zofia Rohozińska (University of Warsaw) and dr Aleksandra Wiktorowska (University of Warsaw) and sent to: phdseminar.thepastinthepresent@gmail.com.

Participants will be expected to have a short paper (of approximately 3000 words) ready for pre-circulation two weeks prior to the seminar, no later than Friday, 4 May, 2022.