CfP: Rethinking Flight, Persecution, Destruction and War: how do we define postmemory now
The Centre for the Movement of People, Aberystwyth University 20-22nd June 2022
It seems strange, now, to think that Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory is less than 30 years old. Memory Studies and Trauma Studies have become large academic fields in their own right, spanning the arts, humanities and sciences, but few single concepts have dominated the field in the way that postmemory does.