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Margaret Savilonis started the topic Call for Self-Nominations for TC Memory Studies Forum Executive Committee in the forum TC Memory Studies

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:43:51 -0500

The TC Memory Studies Forum Executive Committee is seeking self-nominations for two five-year terms; one beginning immediately and running through January 2031, the other starting January 2027 and running through 2032. The committee organizes one guaranteed session at the annual convention and may also organize one non-guaranteed collaborative…[Read more]

Jacqueline Sheean started the topic CFP: MLA TC Memory Studies Forum Guaranteed Session in the forum TC Memory Studies

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:01:22 -0500

Please consider submitting an abstract for the TC Memory Studies Forum Guaranteed Session at the 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles. https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33069.html

How do the theoretical frameworks of memory studies respond to and/or resist contemporary violence and genocides? Seeking papers that address new…[Read more]

Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Memory Studies

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:21:45 -0500

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge of sustained scholarly interest in the area. Biographies, autobiographies, letters, and diaries from…[Read more]

Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion TC Memory Studies

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:42:34 -0400

Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Book Chapters: Memory Studies: An Anthology of Perspectives in the discussion TC Memory Studies

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:19:40 -0400

Chapter proposals are invited for a volume on contemporary memory and literary studies edited by Dr. D. Sudha Rani ( VNRVJIET ), Dr. Rachel Irdaya Raj ( VNRVJIET ), Dr.Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA).

Memory studies is an increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary, and dynamic field of knowledge that spans multiple disciplines. Sociologists, psychologists,…[Read more]

Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group TC Memory Studies

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:49:49 -0500

The partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]

Stef Craps started the topic Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory in the discussion TC Memory Studies

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 06:30:18 -0500

Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory

London, UK, 27-29 June 2023

The eleventh Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Goldsmiths, University of London from Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 June 2023, and will take place on-site at King’s College London and the Regent’s Stre…[Read more]

Subarno Chattarji deposited “Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War in the group TC Memory Studies

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 03:48:44 -0500

While 30 April 1975 represented the end of hostilities between North and South Vietnam, it was not the end of internecine conflicts. The victorious communists treated Southerners with contempt and subjected them to humiliation and violence, including incarceration in so-called re-education camps. Dương Thu Hương served in the Women’s Youth Briga…[Read more]

Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group TC Memory Studies

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 03:53:51 -0400

Israeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]

Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Virtual Space: Palestinians Negotiate a Lost Homeland in Film in the group TC Memory Studies

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 03:49:59 -0400

In his seminal study, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman argues how the Israeli occupation has forced a new imagined space to emerge, which is at once confining to the Palestinians and increases their sense of marginalization and loss. Changing the landscape through imposing architecture construction is a way to…[Read more]

Marisa Parham deposited 17, or, Tough, Dark, Vulnerable, Moody: James Baldwin in the group TC Memory Studies

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:32:29 -0400

In its encounter with James Baldwin across form— “Letter to my nephew,” “Sonny’s Blues,” and archival footage of Baldwin being interviewed by the psychologist Kenneth Clark— this article offers an exploration of how Baldwin’s figuration of children and his own acts of care illuminate the political possibilities of both filiation and aff…[Read more]

Marisa Parham deposited Hughes, Cullen, and the In-sites of Loss in the group TC Memory Studies

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:27:07 -0400

This essay explores how Pierre Nora’s sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as “a memory that ultimately rewrites history.” I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage,” one of which reveals a…[Read more]

Marlene Manoff deposited Archive and Library in the group TC Memory Studies

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 16:25:21 -0500

Archives and libraries operate within a complex web of social, political and economic forces. Digital technologies, globalization, the corporatization of the academy, and increasing commercial control of the scholarly record are just some of the myriad forces shaping their evolution. Libraries and archives in turn have shaped the production of…[Read more]

Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group TC Memory Studies

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 03:56:51 -0400

Jordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]

Rosanne Kennedy posted an update in the group TC Memory Studies: Dear Memory Studies Colleagues, I’m pleased to have been n […]

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:15:41 -0400

Dear Memory Studies Colleagues,
I’m pleased to have been nominated for the Executive Committee for Memory Studies, and wanted to tell you about my activities. My early work (World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time, ed with Jill Bennett, 2003) stimulated dialogue between postcolonial studies and memory studies. I examined memory and t…[Read more]

Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion Memory Studies

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:38:45 -0400

Call for Papers:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces

49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
“Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds”
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

NeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html

The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries…[Read more]

Marlene Manoff deposited Archival Silence in the Age of Trump in the group TC Memory Studies

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:17:53 -0400

The Trump presidency has fueled growing apprehension about a media landscape rife with lies, bogus news, and conspiracy theories. These concerns can be situated within a discourse of archival silence which questions the ways in which knowledge may be concealed, misappropriated and exploited in the service of governments, corporations and…[Read more]

Martha Dana Rust started the topic Teaching Memory Studies -- MLA 2017 in the discussion Memory Studies

Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:26:51 -0500

The special session “Teaching Memory Studies” (session 154, Thursday, January 5, 7:00-8:15 PM, Franklin 12 Philadelphia Marriott) will contribute to the growing conversation around incorporating the discipline of memory studies into the study of literature while also pushing the boundaries of memory studies pedagogy in literature courses bey…[Read more]

Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group TC Memory Studies

Sat, 29 Oct 2016 12:17:47 -0400

This chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]

Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group TC Memory Studies

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 17:16:11 -0400

In his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]

Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group TC Memory Studies

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:45:47 -0400

This study is premised upon my experience of translating _Ekattorer Chithi_ (Bengali title) or _Letters of 1971_ (English version of the title), an anthology of letters written by the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, into English. Letters of 1971, a collection of letters, diverse as they are in meaning and…[Read more]

Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group TC Memory Studies

Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:27:05 -0400

n his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a peopl…[Read more]

Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group TC Memory Studies

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 19:49:32 -0400

In the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]

Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar's The Seine was Red in the group TC Memory Studies

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 19:10:42 -0400

Amine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more]

Hania Nashef deposited “Not to Get Lost in the Loss”: Narrating the Story in Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here and in Deborah Rohan’s The Olive Grove – A Palestinian Story." in the group TC Memory Studies

Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:15:15 -0400

In his introduction to Mourid Barghouti novel, I saw Ramallah, Edward Said refers to the Palestinians as a displaced and a misplaced people. Regardless of the nationalities they carry or countries they live in, they carry with them the trauma of events that led to the loss of their homeland, and the grief of this loss and endless displacement.…[Read more]

Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group TC Memory Studies

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:36:07 -0500

In this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]

Kyle Pivetti started the topic CFP: Alternate Histories, Alternate Memories (MLA 2017) in the discussion Memory Studies

Mon, 08 Feb 2016 18:12:25 -0500

In examples like Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle or Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, we can see the alternate history genre imagine a multitude of possible pasts, both national and individual. It is those possibilities that lead critics to investigate the constructedness of history and notions of past and future. This pro…[Read more]

Suzanne England deposited Driving Miss Daisy as Memory Theatre in the group TC Memory Studies

Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:49:52 -0400

Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Driving Miss Daisy (1986) is examined as a site of memory including: Uhry’s own memories upon which the characters and the play itself are based; the role of memory stories, settings and objects in the unfolding of the relationship be-tween its main characters, Daisy Wertham and her chauffeur, Hoke Col…[Read more]

Martha Dana Rust deposited "The Circle Uncoiled, Unwound": Following Memory's Storyline with Mystory in the group TC Memory Studies

Fri, 23 Oct 2015 02:47:08 -0400

“A colored spiral in a small ball of glass, this is how I see my own life,” writes Vladimir Nabokov in his memoir, Speak, Memory. In our course “What is Memory?” we read and write with Nabokov’s life story using our own form of Gregory Ulmer’s “mystory” mode of writing as a way to discover the life cycles of memories–ours and our students as well…[Read more]

John Garrison started the topic Memory Studies at MLA 2016 in the discussion Memory Studies

Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:22:10 -0400

This panel and roundtable will be of interest to scholars interested in memory studies!

*** Memory and Migration ***

Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Memory Studies and the Forum CLCS Hemispheric American

Presiding: Ana Paulina Lee, Columbia Univ.

1. “The Migration of Objects and the Trusteeship of M…[Read more]