Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies
Anni-Lotta Hamer, Teona Ivashchenko, Elisa Mucciarelli (Regensburg)
- Beginning:
- Thursday, 05 February 2026 09:00
- End:
- Friday, 06 February 2026 12:00
This year's workshop Memory Matters: Non-Human Agents in Memory Studies 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.
Please find the full programme here.
Interested people are welcome, registration is requested: gsoses.conference@ur.de
Venue:
GS OSESUR, Landshuter Straße 4, 93047 Regensburg, Room 319 (3rd floor)
The workshop is organised by the Graduate School for East and Southeast European StudiesUR in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World" and kind support by The Center for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies “Denkraum Ukraine” (Think Space Ukraine) at the University of Regensburg.
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