There is still time to submit a proposal for the annual conference of the Memory Studies Association, to be held from July 14 to 18 2025 at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Deadline for submissions … continue reading →
Krakow is hosting two major international conferences dealing with heritage and heritage preservation in the next few days — and it’s a pity that they overlap! One, the 2024 conference of the Future for Religious Heritage network takes place Monday … continue reading →
This is an UPDATED call for participants for “History, Memory and Responsibility,” an English-language seminar for journalists to be held at the Auschwitz Memorial Museum and in the town of Oświęcim (outside of which the Auschwitz camp was built). The … continue reading →
A new book (but one that may be hard to get hold of) sums up a decade of detailed research, conservation, and restoration work at the historic Jewish cemetery in Alba Iulia, Romania. Called “Histories Written in Stone,” it details … continue reading →
Two workshops/seminars/programs dealing with the preservation of Jewish cemeteries take place at the same time in September — one in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (September 23-24) and one in and around Făgăraş, Romania (September 23-30). They are quite different in scope, but … continue reading →
