#callforpapers

"The Aestheticisation of War Violence in Contemporary Performing Arts"
OA-Publication Developed from the Research Project at Bern University of the Arts

Deadline: 15 May 2026

👉 Further information: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/call-for-papers-the-aestheticisation-of-war-violence-in-contemporary-performing-arts/

#performingarts #performancestudies #theatrestudies #artisticresearch #visualarts #dramaturgy #dancestudies #memorystudies #culturalstudies #hkb

#CFP

Musical Commemorations/Contestations

Special issue on music, memory, identity, and power in postcolonial contexts, exploring commemorative and contested sonic practices.

Deadline: 01/05/2026

https://www.inetmd.pt/en/diffusion/cfp-musical-commemorations-contestations-in-postcolonial-contexts-negotiating-memory-identity-and-power/

#Ethnomusicology #PostcolonialStudies #MemoryStudies #SoundStudies

Today, we go into the 2nd day of our conference on "Memory Processes in Imperial Lifeworlds". We look at all kinds of different objects, and discuss what roles they play in ongoing processes of #decolonization. Naturally, the question of restitution is important.

In this video, Marie Julien Danga (Bertoua) explains the complicated history of a now infamous object in the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, the throne of the king of Bamum.

#objecthistory #materialturn #Africa #colonialism #memorystudies

Tomorrow we kick off our conference “Memory Processes in Imperial Lifeworlds”. We explore how objects—from wristwatches and gloves to monuments—shaped and still shape #decolonization in Europe and its former colonies.

One example: Stephen Foose (Marburg) on British passports—small objects with a huge impact on unequal global mobility. 👇

Online participation is possible!
==>https://www.dhi-paris.fr/de/termindetails/online-und-vor-ort-erinnerungsprozesse-in-imperialen-lebenswelten.html

#objecthistory #materialturn #Africa #colonialism #memorystudies

Watches, passports, flags, gloves, artworks or big monuments: Objects shape our everyday lives. They play a role in history, and it's not always the one people thought they would. Objects also make the past visible in the present, they shape our memory of historical events. This is particularly true in the long history of interaction, domination and resistance between "the West" and "the Rest" and in the way we remember it today.
In our conference from 18-20 march, we want to look at the role all these different objects played and still play in the decolonization of Europe and its former colonies.

#decolonization #objecthistory #materialturn #Africa #colonialism #memorystudies

#CFP

The Othered Child: Roma (and) Childhood Between History and Antigypsyist Fantasy
Interdisciplinary workshop examining representations of Roma childhood alongside historical realities. Approaches from history, film, literature, education, memory studies, and critical Romani studies welcome.

📍 Online
📅 29–30 October 2026

Deadline: 30/06/2026

https://www.hist.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/call-for-papers-the-othered-child-roma-and-childhood-between-history-and-antigypsyist-fantasy

#RomaniStudies #ChildhoodStudies #Antigypsyism #MemoryStudies #Roma

#HBO #Chernobyl draws heavily on Svetlana Alexievich's #oralhistory book Voices from Chernobyl.

That's exactly why oral #history matters: it preserves how events are experienced, not just how they're later reduced to "what happened". #Testimony keeps the human truth in the record.

#Publichistory #MemoryStudies #Historiography #SvetlanaAlexievich #Storytelling #Voicesfromchernobyl @histodons #histodons

New essay: The Myth of WWII Saviorism - Antisemitism and National Memory in America

Before WWII, U.S. policy treated Jews as racial outsiders. After 1945, that same nation recast itself as their rescuer.

I trace how this moral inversion shaped American memory and how “saving the Jews” became a story about saving America.

https://eliezeraryeh.substack.com/p/the-american-mirror-jews-race-and

#JewishHistory #Antisemitism #WWII #MemoryStudies #History