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Margins of Memory

Research Network

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Find the full Margins of Memory Programme for Summer Semester 2026 here | Full details of all events below

Next event: 16 April 26, 14:00 at AlFi 017 | Kateřina Čapková (Prag) From National History to Inclusive History

About | Margins of Memory: Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance

This ScienceCampus research network builds on the studies of marginalization and memory studies to explore how margins of memory are produced and challenged in societies across the globe. In answering this question, we bring various strands of research on memory cultures of marginalized groups together—informed by gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, Holocaust studies, migration studies, peace and transitional justice studies, and beyond—as we seek to theorize a nuanced and intersectionally-informed concept of margins of memory.

Our interdisciplinary endeavor involves researchers from Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, History Education, Literary Studies, and Political Science. The work of the network members covers memory cultures of marginalized groups across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Australia, which span over a hundred years—from the 19th century to today. We ground our analysis in exploring oral/written memories and memorials as well as “non-verbal” memories and silences that find expression in arts, images, sounds, other sensory engagements, performances, and social acts. Drawing on this rich dataset, we conceptualize margins of memory as a comparative analytical tool and a connective lens to explore slippages and entanglements between historical and contemporary cultures of memory across the globe.

By focusing on cultures and politics of non-hegemonic remembrance, the network contributes to pluralizing theoretical and methodological approaches to memory studies. Through the concept of margins of memory, we develop modalities of listening to and interpreting the silences of the archive while also attending to the agency of marginalized groups from a comparative perspective. Against the backdrop of today’s securitization of memory  as well as contemporary and historical memory wars across the globe that disproportionately affect marginalized groups, we seek to theorize how non-hegemonic communities make sense of their pasts to spatially and temporally orient their lives, deal with their present, and build their futures. Mindful of multiple forms of marginalization in dynamic contexts across the globe, we seek to develop ways of mobilizing the concept of margins of memory to serve the studies of differently vocal, transnationally mobile, and ever-increasingly virtual communities of memory.

 

Upcoming Events | click the title for more details

Thu 16 April | 14:00-15:45 | AlFi 017 | Lecture | Kateřina Čapková (Prag) From National History to Inclusive History

Tue 28 April | 16:15-17:45 | AlFi 017 | Discussion | Doing Memory Studies on the Margins: Reflections on Research Practice and Career-Building
Katerina Kralova in conversation with Volha Bartash and Tatiana Klepikova

    Weds 29 April | 09:30 - 10:50 | online event | Where Can Margins of Memory Take Us? Theorising Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance (Volha Bartash and Tatiana Klepikova, University of Regensburg)

    • this event is part of the course The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Themes and Approaches in Contemporary European Memory Studies offered via the 4EU+ consortium; register via the link

    Mon 4 May | 14:15-15:45 | AlFi 017 | Vjeran Pavlaković (Rijeka) and Katarina Damčević (Regensburg) Policy Briefs in the Humanities? Reflections on Outreach and Academic Writing

    Thu 7 May (Room SE.041) & Fri 8 May (Room AlFi 017) | 10:00-15:00 each day | Workshop | Tatiana Klepikova and Volha Bartash (MoM Speakers) Where Can Margins of Memory Take Us? Theories and Methods Workshop for the Humanities and Social Sciences

    • please register for this event by writing to tatiana.klepikova@ur.de by 4 May 2026

    Tue 9 June | 09:30-11:00 | AlFi 017 | Talk | Sarah Grandke & Sarah Kleinmann (Heidelberg) Digital Spaces of Knowledge and Memory: The Online Encyclopedia of the Nazi Genocide Against the Sinti and Roma in Europe

    • this talk outlining the work of the digital Encylopedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma is open to all. No registration is required for this session. The talk is in English
    • the open talk will be followed by a practical session in German discussing the creation, development, management, dissemination and use of the online encylopedia. If you are interested in attending this session from 11:15 to 12:45 please contact campus@europeamerica.de by 31 May 2026. This session is particularly useful for anyone working with the OES software with a view to developing online handbooks, glossaries and encylopedias.

    Mon 15 June | 14:15-15:45 | AlFi 017 | talk | Jeremy F. Walton (Rijeka) Monuments of Postempire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, and Tribulation in Sarajevo, Zemun and Vienna 

     

      Past Events

      Thu 12 March | 13:00 - meet at Neupfarrplatz | Postcolonial Walk through Regensburg with Michael Rösser and Juliette Breton

      • This event was part of the Margins of Memory Workshop

      Margins of Memory Speaker Series | Winter Semester 2025/26

      All events take place at Landshuter Str. 4 (Altes Finanzamt / IOS / Graduate School) in Room 017.

       

                 
       

      NameAffiliationExpertiseRegion

      Tatiana Klepikova
      (co-speaker)

       

      UR

      Gender & Sexuality, Queer, Socialism

      Eastern Europe & diasporic

      Volha Bartash
      (co-speakers)

       

      IOS / U of Münster

      Roma, Race, Nazi Genocide

      Eastern Europe & Germany

      Regensburg-based Members
      Verena BaierUR (Media Studies)Life Writing und Life Narrative, Digital memory, Social movements and activitismUSA & Central America

      Elena Goldhofer

       

      UR (Romance Studies & LSC)
      University of Passau - Doctoral Researcher

      Indigenous literatures in Canada, decolonisation and trans-indigenous methodologies

      Francophone regions, including Quebec

      Sara Žerić Đulović

       

      UR/IOS

      Migrant workers, Labor history, Women's history

      Southeast Europe

      International and Germany-based Members

      Tigran Amiryan

       

      Cultural and Social Narratives Laboratory, Yerevan

      Urban History, Armenian genocide, Environmental History, Gender, Conflict & Peace

      South Caucasus (Armenia)

      Nishani Frasier

       

      North Carolina State U

      Black Studies, Sound & Visual Studies, Urban History

      USA

      Sarah Grandke

       

      Heidelberg (GS OSES)

      Displaced persons, Nazi era, transnational histories, Sinti & Roma

      Eastern Europe (Ukraine & Poland) & diasporic communities; Genocide of Sinti & Roma

      Kateřina Králová

       

      Charles University

      Holocaust, Conflict-related Migration, Post-war Reconstruction

      Eastern & Southern Europe

      Julian David Bermeo Osorio

       

      U of Deusto

      Peace & Conflict, School museums, Murals

      Latin America (Colombia)

      Lilia Topouzova

       

      U of Toronto

      GULAGs, Socialism, State violence

      Bulgaria

      Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams

       

      Australian National University

      Migration, Displacement, Transnational experience,
      Life Writing, Material Culture

      Australia & Eastern Europe

      Associate Members


      Philipp Bernhard

       

      UR (Center for Commemorative Culture)

      Postcolonial Studies, German colonization of Africa

      Germany & Africa