LIMS - Interdepartmental Laboratory Memory and Society

01/09/2026

Today on local press!

Trentino Mese, September issue out today! pp. 106 and 107 speak about LIMS 4 Alzheimer.

Stay tuned for more updates!

31/08/2026

Still a few days to register: https://eventi.unitn.it/it/historical-distance-and-holocaust

29/08/2026

📢 MSA Annual Conference 2027: Memory, Responsibility and Hope!

📅 14–18 June 2027
📍 Lund University, Sweden

We are pleased to announce our 2027 Annual Conference, bringing together scholars and practitioners to explore the connections between memory, responsibility, and hope.

How can we remember responsibly? What responsibilities do we have to the past, the present, and future generations? And can memory help us imagine and create more just, sustainable, and hopeful futures?

The conference welcomes contributions from across Memory Studies and related fields, inviting reflection on the role of memory in shaping social, political, cultural, and ecological futures.

🎙 Confirmed keynote speakers:
🔷Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
🔷Emilie Pine
🔷Oksana Zabushko

📣 Call for Papers is now open!
Proposals for panels, roundtables, individual papers, and special events are welcome.

🗓 Submission deadline: 15 October 2026

🔗 Full Call for Papers:https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/call-for-papers-2027/
💻 Conference portal: Coming soon

Save the date and join us in Lund in June 2027!

21/08/2026

❗️The beginning of the new academic year is getting closer. September LIMS's calendar is full of events 📅

Join us for the first one, on Sept. 4, at 6 pm:

Thomas Van de Putte (Università di Trento) will present his new book, Historical Distance and the Holocaust (CEU Press 2026).

Discussants will be Daniele Salerno (University of Sevilla), Jeremy Yamashiro (University of California Santa Cruz), Guido Bartolini (Free University of Bolzano), Hannes Obermair (EURAC Bolzano).
The event will be chaired by Giorgia Proietti (Università di Trento).

Registration links to join either in person or online are available here: https://eventi.unitn.it/it/historical-distance-and-holocaust

21/08/2026

Sulle tracce del treno della memoria, 14-19 ottobre 2026
Terra del Fuoco Trentino

15/06/2026

2 weeks to apply!
Deadline 30th June

06/06/2026

Three weeks to the deadline for the next call of the LIMS internship programme!

If you want to spend 2 or 3 months in Trento in a memory studies full immersion, you can apply here:

https://lims.unitn.it/internships/

We will soon update the list of research areas in which LIMS members are especially keen on tutoring interns during their stay, but you are free to apply whatever the subject you are working on.

You can read reports from past recipients of this programme here: https://lims.unitn.it/internship-experiences/

Next deadline for the fall internship: 30th June, 12 pm (+2 GMT)

27/05/2026

Call open until 1st Aug. 💡📗🌎

Apply here: https://eventi.unitn.it/it/lims-annual-prize-best-interdisciplinary-essay-memory-studies

Deadline: 1 Aug. 2026

16/05/2026

This upcoming seminar is organised within the LIMS internship programme (https://lims.unitn.it/internships/) in which two early career scholars spend a semester at the Department of Sociology and Social Research and the Department of Humanities of the Università di Trento to learn from memory scholars in a very interdisciplinary framework and develop their own research projects.

The seminar allows the interns to present the research they have been working on during their internship. On this occasion Francesca and Martina will speak, respectively, about the lexicon of memory in ancient historiography and contested architectures in today's urban landscapes.

Just come along, next Monday at noon, if you want to know more!

12/05/2026

Yesterday, 10 memory studies students visited the temporary exhibition 'E noi che ne sappiamo? Riflessioni sul colonialismo italiano' at Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra in Rovereto.

Under the careful guidance of Anna Pisetti, to whom we are indeed grateful, we learnt a lot about the difficult memory of liberal and fascist Italian colonialism in our own national public discourse.