Event date: November 2025 – June 2026
Location: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2

• Friday 14 November 2025, 15.00-17.00, Camelot meeting room (3.30 – Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren)
  Discussion of After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory (2024) by Trevor Owens.
• Wednesday 17 December 2025, 15.00-16.30, Avalon meeting room (3.31 – Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren)
  Discussion of  “Handling the Hype: Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for Memory Studies” (2025) by Samuel Merrill et al. 
• Friday 30 January 2026, 16.00-17.30, Camelot meeting room (3.30 – Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren). Discussion of Astrid Ell’s chapter “Ecologies of Trauma” along with Naomi Klein’s Guardian piece “How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of War”.
• Tuesday 31 March 2026, 16.00-17.30, Camelot meeting room (3.30 – Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren). Doctoral project presentations by visiting scholars Anesa Muslimovic Ortega (Universitat de València) and Olatz Buesa Aguirre (University of the Basque Country). Abstracts and bios available here.
• Tuesday 5 May 2026, 15.00-16.30, online. Discussion of Katrin Antweiler’s chapter “Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums” along with Anke Fiedler’s “Discourse Hegemony and the Public Sphere”.
• Monday 29 June 2026, 15.00-16.30, Avalon meeting room (3.31 — Blandijn, Campus Boekentoren). Discussion of Lucy Bond’s et al. The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies – Introduction by Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson and Chapter 11, “Literature between Archive and Memory” by Tom Chadwick and Pieter Vermeulen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    All are welcome. For further information, please contact Marion de Schepper or Clara Vlessing.