Conference: Agency and Transcultural Memory (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania, 4/16-4/18/15)
Agency and Transcultural Memory
Date: April 16-18, 2015
Location: Vytautas Magnus University, in Kaunas, Lithuania
The conference will bring together researchers from all over Europe to address the concept of memory agency in Europe from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective. The conference aims to deepen theoretical and methodological reflections on the role of transcultural actors in the transmission and negotiation of memories across national and cultural borders.
Keynote speeches are delivered by:
The presentations will be followed by inputs from invited commentators and discussions in the plenary. One afternoon will be especially dedicated to a panel on transcultural memory in the Baltic states.
Please notice that there is no conference fee.
COST covers travel and accommodation for the MC- members of the action and (in relevant cases) their substitutes. However, other researchers who can secure their own funding can participate providing that they send their registration details to the local organizer in Kaunas, e-mail: cost.kaunas@gmail.com, no later than 15 February 2015.