💬 During the event "Revisited: Czech-German Memory and Beyond" in #Prague, Nikita Kadan emphasized how quickly political situations and lived reality can change – and he urges us to be prepared for different scenarios.
#EVZConversations #MSAPrague2025
💬 During the panel talk "Revisited: Czech-German Memory and Beyond" this July in #Prague, Mirta Kupferminc explained how the Holocaust shaped her parents, her own and her childrens life – and how much fragmentation it caused.
#EVZConversations #MSAPrague2025
🧠 "When we talk about memories, we often focus on trauma. But even in terrible situations, there is also a manifestation of something good," said Olga Bubich during the panel talk "Revisited: Czech-German Memory and Beyond" this July in #Prague.
#EVZConversations #MSAPrague2025
"When you have no future, you vote for the past."
-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
#uspol #maga #MSAPrague2025
a woman holding a microphone and standing next to a man
a group of people in a room with a projector screen
a group of people sitting in chairs
a group of people sitting in chairs and a woman pointing at a projector screen
🎤 As part of #MSAPrague2025, the Memory Studies Association & the EVZ Foundation organized a joint event, with the participation of the Czech-German Fund for the Future. The well-attended discussion brought together international voices from academia, the arts, and civil society.
An incredible week at @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social Conference in Prague with @klarakosova.bsky.social 🤍
#MSAPrague2025
@c4dhi.bsky.social
We had the most amazing time screening 'An Unusual Period of Unspecified Length' at the @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Prague last week! What a wonderful opportunity to talk to fascinating colleagues from all over the world about preserving and letting go of memory.
#MSAPrague2025
In the speakers’ party were:
@bpavlekloebl.bsky.social
@klarafritz.bsky.social
@hollogschwandtner.bsky.social
@sarahritt.bsky.social and
@demantowsky.bsky.social
#msaprague2025
An amazing way to end this year’s @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Prague: a full house for a panel on “Rethinking Holocaust Memory in and beyond the Crisis” with Michael Rothberg, Ben Ratskoff, Marianne Hirsch, Heidi Grunebaum, and Roma Sendyka #MSAPrague2025
Kafka head sculpture.
Golden Lane No. 22 where Kafka briefly lived with his sister.
Franz Kafka birthplace plaque.
Thank you, Memory Studies Association, for a great conference. Met lots of smart people, learned a great deal, and had some Kafka-esque moments along the way. #MSAPrague2025
🔹 During the members meeting, the MSA highlighted its roadmap for current and future events and organization.
🔹We also enjoyed different artists' talks in the renowned Kunsthalle
🍓 Finally, a special shoutout goes to the amazingly organized -Book Raffle!
#MSAPrague2025
🎀 Day 4 continued to leave us incredible moments. Today, our interns navigated through more panels and other delightful activities:
🔹As always, they counted on the panellists to deliver captivating presentations 🧑🏫
🔹Ann Rigney assumed her role as President of the MSA 👑
#MSAPrague2025
Today at @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social: @stefcraps.com explores our hunger for fake news and the collective fantasy of nature miraculously healing itself during the "anthropause" of the Covid-19 panedmic. Would that it were so! #MSAPrague2025
Spare a thought for the victims and survivors of the December 2023 mass shooting at Charles University Faculty of the Arts. Small memorial just across the street from main entrance. #memory #monuments #mourning
cuni.cz/UKEN-2060.html
#MSAPrague2025
Memory holes, memory trolls, and authoritarian erasures of history.
Resist much, obey little.
#MSAPrague2025
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Happy to connect with any scholars working on memory and historical anniversaries or anyone thinking about the US Semiquincentennial and authoritarian mobilizations of memory. #MSAPrague2025 #history #memory #uspol #democracy
Great session on “American Layers of Memory” at yesterday’s #MSAPrague2025. Brilliant new work from co-panelists @alisonlandsberg.bsky.social (George Mason) and Christina Simko (Williams) Thanks kindy to Jeff Olick (U Va) for putting this together and chairing.
💎The evening concluded with a wonderful GALA in the Smetana Hall in the Municipal House. We enjoyed a fantastic keynote with Georgi Gospodinov in conversation with Alison Landsberg, made possible by @degruyter, discussing the relationship between memory and storytelling.
#MSAPrague2025
Today at Memory Studies Association annual meeting (MSA Prague): 📣📣📣 15.30-17.00 CET: Lab Director Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden's talk on New Directions and Challenges in Memory Studies in light of the 'fourth wave' and the field's interest in AI. #MSAPrague2025 #MemoryStudies #MemoryPolitics
Today at MSA Prague! The Lab is facilitating two concurrent sessions. The first:
📣📣📣 15.30-17.00 (CET) Dr Kate Marrison is running a workshop: Playing with Memory in Prague: Holocaust Computer Games with Charles games.
#MSAPrague2025 #MemoryStudies #MemoryPolitics
Day 2 of the our 9th Annual Conference in Prague 🥳
🔹 three rounds of insightful panels on diverse topics across memory studies
🔹 three amazing semi-plenary session
🔹 our first film screening of #MSAPrague2025
🔹 interesting exhibitions which can be visited until the end of the week
A superb start of the Memory Studies Association’s annual conference in Prague. Thrilled to witness the official launch of the MSA Working Group: “Antifascist Memory” co-chaired by Zoltán Kékesi and Máté Zombory. Exciting events ahead! #MSAPrague2025 #antifascism
People user testing the Landecker Digital Memory Lab's Digital Memory Database, currently in development.
If you're at the Memory Studies Association's annual meeting (MSA Prague) today, join us for a user testing session at 13.30-15.00 (CET) in room H115 to explore our Digital Memory Database platform, which seeks to collect historical + contemporary digital Holocaust memory practice. #MSAPrague2025
Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Director of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab based at University of Sussex, addressing the audience of the Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo 2025 last month.
Day 2 of MSA Prague: Our Director this morning contributed to a roundtable 'Museums + Contemporary Memory Politics in Precarious Times', considering how can museums avoid becoming tools for gov. policies + be institutions of resistance/a critical conscience of a collective/nation? #MSAPrague2025
Conference session: Museums and Memory Roundtable
A fine start to Day 2 of #MSAPrague2025
#Museums and #Memory Roundtable
How can museums effectively resist the political instrumentalization of the past by authoritarian and illiberal regimes?
“Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.” -Václav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless” (1978)
And since I am in Prague for #MSAPrague2025
What happens when authoritarians silence and censor the past?
A field report from the USA.
#history #memory #MSAPrague2025
progressive.org/latest/the-d...
What happens when authoritarians silence and censor the past?
A field report from the USA.
#history #memory #MSAPrague2025
progressive.org/latest/the-danger-of-mag...
currently attending my very first Memory Studies Association Conference in Prague, aka the city that sparked my interest in memory studies! #msaPrague2025
