Interdisciplinary Online Ph.D. Conference

Mnemonic Encounters in Europe: New Directions and Dilemmas

to be held on 18-20 May 2022

We kindly invite applications from current doctoral candidates in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences whose research covers the broad topic of Memory Studies and deals with questions such as cultural, historical and collective European memory; official, vernacular, public, popular, local, and family memory in Europe; places of memory; memory institutions; European heritage; memory and forgettng; and/or politics of remembering.

The ‘Plurality of Memories in Europe in a Global Perspective’ project within 4EU+ alliance seeks to constitute a high level European scientific community in Memory Studies .

The aim of our Ph.D. seminar/conference is to show compelling and innova;ve research, giving young scien;sts the possibility to present their work at the interna;onal forum.

Applicants are invited to submit their proposals in English, consisting of:

➤ an abstract (up to 200 words);


➤ informations of the candidate (a Ph.D. disserta;on ;tle, an academic discipline/field of study, and the university of origin).

Deadline for submission is Monday, 14 March, 2022.

Proposals should be addressed to the seminar coordinators, Zofia Rohozińska (University of Warsaw) and dr Aleksandra Wiktorowska (University of Warsaw) and sent to: phdseminar.thepastinthepresent@gmail.com

Participants will be expected to have a short paper (of approximately 3000 words) ready for pre- circulation two weeks prior to the seminar, no later than Friday, 4 May, 2022.