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.
Interested in participating in our next Network Conference? It will be held in December 2019 in New York City. Check back here in the spring for more details and deadlines!
Calls for papers for other conferences related to historical dialogues fields can be found here.
June 2019
Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Location: New York City
Dates: June 13-19, 2019
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Berlin Seminar: Truth, Justice & Remembrance
Seminar dates: June 16 – 29, 2019
Memory Studies Association, Third Annual Conference
Location: Complutense University Madrid, Spain
Conference dates: June 25-28, 2019
Seminar on Human Rights and Mass Atrocities
Location: Griffith College, Dublin, Ireland
Seminar dates: June 19-21, 2019
2019 Mellon Conference
Traversing the Gap: Relevance as a Transformative Force at Sites of Public Memory
Location: 9/11 Memorial Museum, New York City
Conference Dates: June 19–21, 2019
Justice for Transnational Human Rights Violations: At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship
Location: Oxford University
Conference Dates: June 19-20, 2019
CfP: Citizens and Subjects in the Italian Colonies: Legal Constructions, Social Practices and the International Context (1882-1943)
Location: Naples, Italy
Dates: June 20-21, 2019
CfP: Italian Association of Public History (AIPH), 3rd National Public History Conference
Location: University of Campania Vanvitelli, Italy
Conference Dates: June 24-28, 2019
Third Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association
Location: Madrid, Spain
Date: June 25-28
CfA: Borderlands Studies in East Central Europe and the Black Sea Region
Location: Hub Rozvytok, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe, Kharkiv, Ukraine;
Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland;
Center for Urban History in East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine.
Date: June 24 –July 5, 2019.
July 2019
USHMM CFP: 2019 Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust Faculty Seminar
Seminar dates: July 15-19, 2019
September 2019
CfP: ‘Narratives of Forced Migration in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries’
Location: University of Stirling, UK
Conference dates: September 16-18, 2019
Mnemonics 2019: Memory and Activism
Mnemonics Summer School
Location: Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Conference dates: September 18–20, 2019
CfP: Digital Memory Practices in and after Conflict
Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK)
Location: Singidunum University Belgrade, Serbia
Conference Dates: September 20-21, 2019
Exploring the Transnational Neighbourhood: Integration, Community, and Co-Habitation
Location: University of London
Conference Dates: September 25-27, 2019
October 2019
Conflict and Identity: Confronting the Past through Education
Location: University of Oxford, UK
Conference dates: October 17-18, 2019
Africa Chapter of the Memory Studies Association Inaugural Conference Memory in Africa: Transcultural Dimensions
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Conference dates: October 17-19, 2019
No Neighbours’ Land: Postwar Europe in a New Comparative Perspective, International Workshop
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Workshop dates: October 23-25, 2019
Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival, Home for Cooperation
Location: Cyprus
Event dates: October 25-27, 2019
November 2019
Call for Applications: Lessons and Legacies Munich
The Holocaust Educational Foundation, the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, the Federal Agency for Civic Education of Germany, and Ludwig-Maximiliens-Universität München, are pleased to announce a special session of the Lessons and Legacies Conference. The special session, “The Holocaust and Europe: Research Trends, Pedagogical Approaches, and Political Challenges,” will take place in Munich from November 4 – 7, 2019.
DISRUPTORS: Being Peacebuilders in a World of Conflict
Location: Bali, Indonesia
Conference Dates: November 6-8, 2019
12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI)
Location: Seville, Spain
Conference Dates: November 11-13, 2019
Presence and future of European Jewish Literature Studies in a changing Europe
Location: Rhineland-Westphalian Technical University of Aachen, Germany
Conference dates: November 18-20, 2019
December 2019
8th Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice & Memory Network
PREVENTION ACTIVISM: ADVANCING HISTORICAL DIALOGUE IN POST-CONFLICT SETTINGS
Location: Columbia University, New York City
Dates: December 12-14, 2019
CfP: Lina Wertmüller Symposium (e-mail for details: wertmullersymposium@gmail.com)
Location: University of Westminster, UK
Conference date: December 13, 2019
January 2020
Welfare State and Violence: Comparative Perspectives on Western and Eastern Europe since the 1950s
Location: University of Konstanz, Germany
Dates: January 23-25, 2020
May 2020
CfP: 2020 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities Gendered Environments: Exploring Histories of Women, Genders, and Sexualities in Social, Political and “Natural” Worlds
Location: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Dates: May 21-23, 2020
July 2020
New Directions in the Humanities: Transcultural Humanities in a Global World
Location: Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy
Conference Dates: July 1-3, 2020
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