Calls for Papers and Applications
This page provides information on calls for papers on issues of historical dialogue, historical and transitional justice, and public and social memory. It is regularly updated.
May 2025
CfP: Pedagogy in an Age of Uncertainty: AI, Inclusive Teaching, and the Politics of Knowledge
Location: Online
Conference Date: August 18th, 2025
Submission Deadline: May 23, 2025
CfA: 7th Annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference in Israel Studies
Location: The UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA
Conference Date: June 17, 2025
Application deadline: May 26, 2025
CfA: Doctoral Project: Uses and Abuses of the Past: the Role of Presentism in Cultural Memory
Location: Coventry University
Application deadline: May 27, 2025
CfP: World History Association Annual Conference: Protest, Prohibition, and Pugilism
Location: Louisville, KY
Conference Dates: June 26-28, 2025
Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025
CfA: Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow, Judiciary Program
Location: Brennan Center for Justice, NYU
Deadline: May 30, 2025
CfA: Postdoctoral position in Political science with a focus on policy analysis
Location: University of Namur, Belgium
Deadline: May 30, 2025
CfA: Assistant Professor in History of Africa
Location: Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
Deadline: May 30, 2025
CfA: Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies and the Director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies
Location: UT Dallas
Deadline: May 31, 2025
CfP: Digital Memory Studies Association Online Events for the Academic year 2025/26
Location: Online
Deadline: May 31, 2025 or September 30, 2025
CfP: The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance, but also on its consequences at the more than human levels (e.g. cultural and environmental levels). The journal highlights studies on the disappeared across diverse disciplines and fields of study and encourages transdisciplinary approaches to the study of disappearance. The journal is accepting submissions. The first issue will be published this Autumn. More information can be found on the journals’ website, including the call for papers https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/jds
Deadline: May 31, 2025 (rolling)
June 2025
Hoover Research Fellow
Location: Stanford University
Deadline: June 1, 2025
CfA: Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Global Asian Histories
Location: Simon Fraser University
Deadline: June 1, 2025
CfA: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researcher, Transitional Justice and Indigeneity in the Nordics (MARCEN)
Location: Turku University, Finland
Deadline: June 2, 2025
CfA Institute of Current World Affairs Fellows Program
Location: Variable
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Postdoctoral researcher: Genealogies of ‘humanity’ in Islamic charity’
Location: Leiden University, Netherlands
Deadline: June 15, 2025
Antisemitism and New Media Graduate Student Conference
Location: New York University
Conference Date: October 20, 2025
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025
CfP: Exhibiting the Holocaust 1945-2025: Genealogies and Legacies
Location: Freie Universität Berlin
Conference Date: November 13-14, 2025
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025
August 2025
CfP: 28th Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites
Location: Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany (sponsored by
Workshop Dates: June 8-14, 2026
Deadline for applications: August 1, 2025
CfA: Senior Fellow in American History, Hoover Institution
Location: Stanford University
Deadline: August 1, 2025
September 2025
CfP: The ICJ at 80 – 6th Scottish Conference on International Law
Location: University of Glasgow
Conference Dates: September 8-9, 2025
October 2025
CfP: Traditions and the Present of Antisemitism:
Location: Special Issue of the Journal for Religion, Society and Politics (Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik – ZRGP)
Deadline: October 1, 2025 (Early submissions are encouraged)
Rolling or Unspecified
Online Seminar Series
Beginning in 2021, the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network will host a live and interactive online seminar series. Conducted through Zoom, these hour-long seminars enable researchers and authors to present new and developing work to a global audience. Seminars are free and open to anyone and include a 25 minute discussion period.
The Dialogues invites prospective presenters to contact a member of the Organising Committee. If you are interested in presenting a seminar, please send an abstract (or the paper/book or other work from which the seminar will draw) to one of the seminar organisers along with a CV or short bio. Please note that presentations should be within the Dialogues’ broad ambit.
Information about upcoming seminars is available LINK. If you want to receive notifications for future online seminars, join the Dialogues’ biweekly newsletter at dialogues@columbia.edu.
Online Seminar Organisation Committee:
Alexander Karn: akarn@colgate.edu ǀ https://www.colgate.edu/about/directory/akarn
Ariella Lang: al223@columbia.edu ǀ https://www.humanrightscolumbia.org/profile/faculty/ariella-lang%20
Stephen Winter: s.winter@auckland.ac.nz ǀ https://stephenwintertheory.wordpress.com/
Memory Studies Portal Now Online
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new memory database! The Memory Studies Portal (MSP) is a bibliography and virtual repository for the growing community of memory scholars. It is a collaborative project of the Memory in the Disciplines initiative at Stony Brook University and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights’ Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability at Columbia University. The MSP responds to two trends, the ongoing consolidation of a field of memory studies and the ongoing debate as to whether memory studies is or should be “interdisciplinary” (involving contributions from scholars from various disciplines within a shared framework), “transdisciplinary” (involving a generative synthesis of disciplinary approaches), or merely “multidisciplinary” (characterized by several parallel, largely independent specialized conversations). This debate provides the opportunity to investigate the relations between disciplines. The MSP bridges disciplinary divides between (and among) the social sciences and the humanities Accordingly, our initiative will allow scholars from disciplines as diverse as sociology, literature, history, psychology, philosophy, political sciences, performance studies and art history to engage in a sustained conversation – and, ideally, to enrich one anothers’ understanding of memory. Since the MSP is a work in progress its growth also partly depends on your input. We thus encourage scholars/users of the MSP to alert us to bibliographic entries or any other suggestion as to how we can improve and expand the MSP. Please send an email with your thoughts, concerns, and missing/additional items you would like us to upload into the MSP.
Invitation to Participate in the Mapping Historical Dialogue Project
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University invites you, as an expert in your field, to participate in the development of the Mapping Historical Dialogue Project (MHDP). The goal of the MHDP is to establish an online interactive geographical map that addresses mechanisms of contested memory in post conflict countries. The mapping process will document projects addressing the memory of historical violence. Building on a crowdsourcing model, the project will rely on incremental contributions to connect a diverse network of individuals who often do not have access or knowledge of one another’s work. The project is open access, and its scholarship and resources and will be available to a wide community of users. More information about the map can be found here. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at mapping.historical.dialogue@gmail.com.
Rolling or Unspecified
Online Seminar Series
Beginning in 2021, the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network will host a live and interactive online seminar series. Conducted through Zoom, these hour-long seminars enable researchers and authors to present new and developing work to a global audience. Seminars are free and open to anyone and include a 25 minute discussion period.
The Dialogues invites prospective presenters to contact a member of the Organising Committee. If you are interested in presenting a seminar, please send an abstract (or the paper/book or other work from which the seminar will draw) to one of the seminar organisers along with a CV or short bio. Please note that presentations should be within the Dialogues’ broad ambit.
Information about upcoming seminars is available LINK. If you want to receive notifications for future online seminars, join the Dialogues’ biweekly newsletter at dialogues@columbia.edu.
Online Seminar Organisation Committee:
Alexander Karn: akarn@colgate.edu ǀ https://www.colgate.edu/about/directory/akarn
Ariella Lang: al223@columbia.edu ǀ https://www.humanrightscolumbia.org/profile/faculty/ariella-lang%20
Stephen Winter: s.winter@auckland.ac.nz ǀ https://stephenwintertheory.wordpress.com/
Memory Studies Portal Now Online
We are delighted to announce the launch of a new memory database! The Memory Studies Portal (MSP) is a bibliography and virtual repository for the growing community of memory scholars. It is a collaborative project of the Memory in the Disciplines initiative at Stony Brook University and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights’ Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability at Columbia University. The MSP responds to two trends, the ongoing consolidation of a field of memory studies and the ongoing debate as to whether memory studies is or should be “interdisciplinary” (involving contributions from scholars from various disciplines within a shared framework), “transdisciplinary” (involving a generative synthesis of disciplinary approaches), or merely “multidisciplinary” (characterized by several parallel, largely independent specialized conversations). This debate provides the opportunity to investigate the relations between disciplines. The MSP bridges disciplinary divides between (and among) the social sciences and the humanities Accordingly, our initiative will allow scholars from disciplines as diverse as sociology, literature, history, psychology, philosophy, political sciences, performance studies and art history to engage in a sustained conversation – and, ideally, to enrich one anothers’ understanding of memory. Since the MSP is a work in progress its growth also partly depends on your input. We thus encourage scholars/users of the MSP to alert us to bibliographic entries or any other suggestion as to how we can improve and expand the MSP. Please send an email with your thoughts, concerns, and missing/additional items you would like us to upload into the MSP.
Invitation to Participate in the Mapping Historical Dialogue Project
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University invites you, as an expert in your field, to participate in the development of the Mapping Historical Dialogue Project (MHDP). The goal of the MHDP is to establish an online interactive geographical map that addresses mechanisms of contested memory in post conflict countries. The mapping process will document projects addressing the memory of historical violence. Building on a crowdsourcing model, the project will rely on incremental contributions to connect a diverse network of individuals who often do not have access or knowledge of one another’s work. The project is open access, and its scholarship and resources and will be available to a wide community of users. More information about the map can be found here. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at mapping.historical.dialogue@gmail.com.