Events and Conferences

This page provides information on forthcoming conferences and symposia relating to issues of historical dialogue, historical and transitional justice, and public and social memory. It is regularly updated. Please email any related announcements to: dialogues@columbia.edu.

 

May 2025

Archives, Heritage and Memory
Location: University of Southampton, UK (registration here)
Date: May 19, 2025

Latin American Jewish Studies Association
Location: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia (and online)
Virtual Conference: May 20-21, 2024
In-Person Conference: July 3-4, 2025

The Materiality of Interreligious Encounters Book Discussion
Location: Cambridge University (online)
Date: May 21, 2025

June 2025

APeCS Conference 2025: Future-Making in Times of Conflict, Violence and Insecurity
Location: University of Edinburgh
Conference Dates: June 2-3, 2025

Global History Student Conference
Location: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut of the Freie Universität, Berlin
Conference Dates: June 6-8, 2025

Council for European Studies 2025 Conference: “Legacies and Ruptures: Making Sense of Europe”
Location: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA  
Conference Dates: June 25-27, 2025 

African, Afropean, Afropolitan: European Conference on African Studies
Location: Prague
Conference Dates: June 25-28, 2025

July 2025

Latin American Jewish Studies Association
Location: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia (and online)
Virtual Conference: May 20-21, 2024
In-Person Conference: July 3-4, 2025

Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries
Location: University of California, Berkeley
Dates: July 7-10, 2025

Ninth Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA): “Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability”
Location: Prague, Czech Republic, 
Conference Dates: July 14 – 18, 2025

August 2025
From Migration to Postmigrant Society: Memory, Identity and Social Inclusion
Location: Lund University
Conference Dates: August 20-22, 2025

September 2025

CfP: Mnemonics 2025: Memory and Responsibility
Location: University of Ghent
Conference Dates: September 10-12, 2025

 

November 2025

Lessons & Legacies of the Holocaust: Inaugural Emerging Scholars Conference
Location: Clark University
Dates: November 6-9, 2025

January 2026

Eighth International Multidisciplinary Conference, Memory Studies Association
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library, London
Conference Dates: January 7–9, 2026