CMSI Seminars 2025-2026
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. Further details tba.
All are welcome. For further information, please contact Marion de Schepper or Clara Vlessing.