6th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Memory Studies
Open to UIUC and UCLA graduate students in all disciplines
Friday, March 28, 2025, 9am-5pm U.S. Central Time, Levis 210, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL
Or online via zoom
Keynotes: Rituparna Roy
Initiator, Kolkata Partition Museum Project
Vishwajyoti Ghosh, graphic novelist
11:30am
The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies (HGMS) invites abstracts from graduate students at UIUC and UCLA for a one-day symposium to take place on campus on Friday March 28th from 9am-5pm (lunch will be provided for all conference participants). The past annual symposia were wonderful, and we hope that this conference will continue to showcase diverse and brilliant work within memory studies (broadly conceived). It will be an opportunity to share ideas and resources, to schmooze and connect. This will also be a great time to practice conference papers and receive invaluable feedback from faculty and other graduate students.
We invite applications from graduate students working in different fields and with diverse interests. These aspects of memory studies might include (but are not limited to): racial aspects of memory, gender and memory, neuroscience, disability studies, how societies remember, the construction of national narratives, discipline and the state, vulnerability, cultural and/or religious practices of memory, museums, archiving, representation and art, sciences of memory (or science and memory), technological aspects of memory, politics of memory, forgetting, erasing, and oversaturating.
Please send a brief abstract (not more than 200 words) that includes the title of your paper, your email, and your department to the director, Professor Brett Ashley Kaplan at bakaplan@illinois.edu by February 1, 2025.
This conference is organized by Ragini Chakraborty, Matthew Fam, Brett Ashley Kaplan, Ann Pei, Emerson Pehl and Taisuke Wakabayashi. Click for more information about the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies and the Future of Trauma and Memory Studies, and the Days and Memory Blog.
