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.
December 2024
Diaries in 20th Century: Testimony, Memory, Self-Construction
Location: University College Dublin
Dates: December 8-9, 2023
Former Portuguese Colonies: Media and Decolonization
Location: Sapienza University Rome
Dates: December 10-14, 2023
AMH (Afghanistan Memory Home). Digital Museum and Database: Seeking Dignity and Accountability for Afghans
Location: Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organisation (AHRDO) (zoom)
Date: December 11, 2023
January 2024
Memory Maps: Early postwar efforts to identify, locate, document and memorialize former sites of Jewish life and death (1944-1955)
Location: Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Conference Dates: January 3-4, 2024
Local Administrations and the Holocaust: Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance
Location: Freie Universtaet Berlin
Conference Dates: January 10-12, 2024
February 2024
Informal Archives: Capturing Family Memories
Location: Columbia University (online)
Date: February 4, 2024
Jews and the Italian Colonization of Libya
Location: Columbia University (online)
Date: February 9, 2024
April 2024
Expanding the Boundaries: Jewish Artistic Heritage of Ukraine
Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine
Conference Dates: April 9-10, 2024
Migrant Voices in Contemporary European Cinema
Location: University of Kent
Conference Dates: April 17-19, 2024
May 2024
Archaeology, Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: The Return of the Repressed in European Culture in the Modern Age
Location: University of Warwick
Conference Date: May 17, 2024
June 2024
European Migrants in the UK in the Brexit Era: Discursive Approaches
Location: University of Liverpool
Event Date: June 12, 2024
Feeding the Mediterranean: Culinary (Re-)Inventions, Legacy and Hospitality
Location: Auburn University in Palermo, Italy
Conference Dates: June 13-16, 2024
Gernika(k)/Guernica(s). Resemanticisations of a historical trauma
Location: University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Conference Dates: June 13-14, 2024
CfP: Acts of Witnessing on Film
Location: American University of Paris
Conference Dates: June 17-18, 2024
July 2024
Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation and Reaction
Location: Sciences Po Lyon; Université Lumière Lyon 2; Université Lumière Lyon 2
Conference Dates: July 3-5, 2024
Memories in Transit (Memory Studies Association)
Location: Lima, Peru
Conference Dates: July 18-20, 2024
October 2024
Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Killing Sites:
Proximities & Gaze
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Conference Dates: 28 October 28 – November 3, 2024
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