Welcome

The Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network provides a platform for researchers and activists working on issues of historical dialogue, historical and transitional justice, and public and social memory. The website provides information and resources to encourage innovative interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative research. It is hosted by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, New York City.

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Upcoming Network Events

10th Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice & Memory Network
Travels Beyond the Holocaust:
Memorialization, Musealization and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue
Vienna, June 25-28, 2024

co-sponsors:
Final Conference of the ERC project “Globalized Memorial Museums”
Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Sciences &
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
find the Call for Papers here

Online Seminar Series

The Network’s 2023 seminar series has concluded. Thank you to everyone who attended. Programming for 2024 is currently under discussion.

You can find detailed information on past seminars (including event recordings) here.

Conducted over Zoom, these 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 discussion period. See our seminars page for more details.

The Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex, a monument to the roughly 1.5 million Armenians killed, during a commemoration ceremony this April in Yerevan. Credit Kirill Kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images