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Since its foundation, the Irish Memory Studies Network has run an annual seminar series, as well as a number of workshops and conferences. Podcasts from many Network events are available via our Memory Cloud<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Conference Programme
\nAfter the War: Patterns of Commemorating the Great War
\nUniversity College Dublin, 7-8 July 2016
\nVenue: 43 St Stephen\u2019s Green, Dublin 2<\/h3>\n

Plenary Speakers: Fran Brearton (QUB), Tea Sindb\u00e6k Andersen (University of Copenhagen), <\/strong><\/p>\n

& Frank McGuinness (UCD)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday 7 July<\/strong><\/p>\n

1-2pm Panel: Canada Remembers the First World War,
\nDonna Coates (University of Calgary), \u2018Vimy and Beyond: The \u201cNo Man\u2019s Land\u201d of Canadian Literature of the First World War\u2019
\nMonique Dumontet (University of Manitoba), \u2018The Continuities of History in Will Bird\u2019s And We Go On\u2019
\n2-3.30pm Northern Ireland Roundtable:
\nLiving Legacies, Kurt Taroff and Sophie Long
\n&
\nEast Belfast & the Great War, Jonathan Evershed and Jason Burke
\n3.30-4pm Tea & Coffee
\n4-5pm Keynote: Professor Fran Brearton (Queens University Belfast) \u2018Numbering Memory, Remembering Poetry\u2019<\/p>\n

Friday 8 July<\/strong><\/p>\n

10-11am Keynote: Professor Tea Sindb\u00e6k Andersen (University of Copenhagen), \u2018Shatter zone memory \u2013 Croatia, Yugoslavia and the First World War\u2019
\n11-11.30am Tea & Coffee
\n11.30-1 Panel: Memory Arts and War,
\nTerry Phillips (Liverpool Hope University), \u2018Lest We Forget: Personal and Collective Memory in Post-war Irish Poetry\u2019
\nMarta Gorgula (University of Silesia), \u2018Forgotten Faces of the Great War: The Wounded Servicemen in Henry Tonks\u2019 Surgical Portraits\u2019
\nJeremy Jenkins (British Library), \u2018Europeana 1914-18\u2019
\n1-2pm Lunch
\n2-3.30pm Panel: The Politics of Memory,
\nMaeve Casserly (University College Dublin), \u2018Relics of War: Commodification of WWI and Easter Rising memorials in the Decade of Centenaries\u2019
\nIsmar Dedovic (University of Copenhagen), \u2018Montenegrin Memories of the Great War\u2019
\nSarah Harsh (Emory University), \u2018Contested Nationalism: Irish Influences in Flemish Monuments to the Great War\u2019
\n3.30-4pm Tea & Coffee
\n4-5pm Conversation with Professor Frank McGuinness & Professor Anthony Roche<\/p>\n

This Symposium is funded by the UCD Decade of Centenaries Programme, the UCD Humanities Institute and run by the Irish Memory Studies Network (www.irishmemorystudies.com<\/a>).
\nRegistration is via EventBrite: https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/after-the-war-tickets-26093140285<\/a>
\nThe cost of registration is \u20ac20 and is payable on the day at the venue. Student\/Unwaged registration is free (but it is still necessary to register).
\nThe conference organisers are:
\nEmilie Pine (UCD School of English, Drama and Film)
\nMaeve Casserly (UCD School of History and Archives & School of English, Drama and Film)<\/p>\n

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Locating and Dislocating Memory
\nCOST NETWORK: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe
\nUniversity College Dublin
\nGraduate Training School: 29 Aug-2 Sept, 2016
\nConference: 1-3 September, 2016<\/h3>\n

The ISTME network (2012-2016) aims to investigate the transcultural dynamics of memory in Europe today. Studying how memories of the troubled twentieth century are transmitted and received across Europe, the Action explores the tension between attempts to create a common European memory, or a unitary memory ethics, on the one hand and numerous memory conflicts stemming from Europe\u2019s fragmentation into countless memory communities on the other.<\/p>\n

The final ISTME conference will focus on the ways in which memory is located and dislocated through processes of production, transmission and reception. Given the dynamism of memory at local, regional and transnational levels, how, when and where is memory located and defined? What are the ethical challenges in these acts of location and definition? What are the ways in which memory is continuously dislocated, via mediation, remediation, consensus-making and conflict? In an age of mass migration, how are memories produced by communities that are themselves dislocated? Is memory the object that is being located or dislocated, or is it a signifier of the location and dislocation of particular memory communities? Is the tension between location and dislocation central to the practice of memory? What new methodological approaches to memory studies can usefully be brought to bear on these questions?<\/p>\n

Keynote speakers:<\/strong>
\nProfessor Astrid Erll, Goethe-Universit\u00e4t, Frankfurt
\nProfessor Michael Rothberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
\nProfessor Francoise Verg\u00e8s, Coll\u00e8ge D’\u00e9tudes Mondiales, Paris<\/p>\n

Proposals<\/strong>
\nPlease submit your proposals for papers of 20 minutes to istme2016@gmail.com<\/a> by 15 April 2016. Proposals should be no longer than 300 words and should be accompanied by a brief biography (100 words). Proposals for panels (3 x 20min) are also welcome, as are proposals for papers that draw attention to recently published work which relates directly to the areas of inquiry outlined above.<\/p>\n

Working Groups<\/strong>: This Network consists of three working groups: 1. Politics 2. Media 3. Migration. Please indicate on your proposal with which thematic area your paper is associated.<\/p>\n

Postgraduate Training School<\/strong>
\nUCD and the COST ISTME Network will host a postgraduate training school in transcultural memory <\/strong>studies (29 August-2 September) that will overlap with our final Conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

About the School
\nThe training school is for PhD candidates who wish to participate in the Network\u2019s research
\nactivities. The aim is to introduce PhD candidates to the Network\u2019s theoretical and methodological
\napproaches to transcultural memory, and to prepare PhD researchers for professional engagement
\nin these fields.<\/p>\n

The Research Network In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe is a COST funded Action that
\naims to go beyond the nationally oriented memory studies that tend to reify the bond between
\nculture, nation and memory. Instead we investigate the transcultural dynamics of memory in Europe
\ntoday. Studying how memories of the troubled twentieth century are transmitted and received
\nacross Europe, the Action explores the tension between attempts to create a common European
\nmemory, or a unitary memory ethics, on the one hand and numerous memory conflicts stemming
\nfrom Europe\u2019s fragmentation into countless memory communities on the other.<\/p>\n

Drawing on recent theoretical insights that point to the importance of memory migration, mediation
\nand new media the Action seeks to develop new methods for studying and comparing effects of
\nmemory transmission over cultural borders. The Action aims to develop European memory studies
\ntheoretically and methodologically by focusing on transculturality, agency and reception \u2013 and to
\ncontribute to finding ways of accommodating memory conflicts.<\/p>\n

The training school will consist of a two-day workshop during which PhD candidates will have the
\nopportunity to present their work and receive personalised feedback from workshop moderators.
\nParticipants will also attend lectures by leading scholars in the field, including Professor Astrid Erll,
\nProfessor Susannah Radstone, Professor Michael Rothberg and Professor Francoise Verg\u00e8s.<\/p>\n

The focus of the training school at UCD will be in line with the Network\u2019s concentration on
\ntranscultural memory in Europe, with particular attention paid to issues of mediation, migration and
\nconflict in the context of the theme of locating and dislocating memory.
\nParticipants will be selected by a steering committee. Applicants should send:<\/p>\n