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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:7.5pt 0cm;border:none"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(60,64,67);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The deadline for submissions for the MSA
2022 has been extended to February 5, 2022, 5pm (KST). </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(60,64,67);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We appreciate that
the current challenging circumstances have made it more difficult to prepare
submissions. We hope that this extension will provide an additional opportunity
for those who need more time to prepare their proposal submissions.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(60,64,67);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Memory
Studies Association (MSA) Sixth Annual Conference</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">“SOLIDARITY”</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sogang
University, Seoul, Korea, July 3-7, 2022</font></span></b></p>
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for Proposals ></font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Memory Studies Association (MSA) invites
proposals for its sixth annual conference, July 3-7, 2022. The conference will
be hosted by the Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University, Seoul,
Republic of Korea.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">The MSA is very enthusiastic to host its next
annual meeting in Seoul, as the first one to take place outside of Europe. In
the hope that the COVID-19 situation will improve, the MSA 2022 Program
Committee has decided that the conference will be organized as an in-person
event. We will closely monitor the status of the COVID-19 pandemic and the
Korean government’s policy to ensure the health and safety of all participants.
While the main events will be live-streamed, due to technical and financial
limitations a fully hybrid event will not be possible. In order to accommodate
more participants, however, working and regional groups are also invited to
organize a limited number of fully on-line events to take place in addition to
the main conference program immediately before and after the in-person meeting.
The MSA Forward and Methodological workshop will also take place on-line.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif">The theme of this year’s conference is
“Solidarity.” The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic—amid rising inequality
and the climate crisis—have forcefully demonstrated the necessity and precarity
of solidarity, as well as its contested nature. This has, in turn, brought to
light the need to reflect upon the pivotal role of collective memory in
constructing, reinforcing, or interrogating various forms of solidarity. We hope
that the conference will provide an opportunity to bring together a range of
different approaches and analyses for illuminating the multi-faceted and
multi-layered dimensions of mnemonic solidarity. We particularly encourage
proposals that critically examine the limitations of the prevailing
epistemologies of antagonistic and/or cosmopolitan memory, de-center global
North perspectives, and explore new ways of imagining transnational mnemonic
solidarity based on justice, mutual understanding, and recognition of
differences. Of course, we also very much welcome proposals on all other areas
of memory studies—especially those areas that have been relatively
under-explored.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="">Proposals are invited for panels, roundtables,
and individual papers from members who are committed to traveling to Seoul for
the in-person meeting. The MSA especially encourages panel proposals. The panel
should, in principle, consist of 4 presenters, a chair, and optionally a
discussant. The participant may appear as a presenter only once but can act as
chair or discussant in more than one panel. The roundtable should consist of
around 4-5 participants with shorter statements and discussions. <span style="color:rgb(60,64,67)">The submission system is now open. You can submit your
proposal on the MSA 2022 Seoul website: </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://msa2022seoul.com/"><span style="color:rgb(60,120,216)">msa2022seoul.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(60,64,67)">.</span></font></p>
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Information ></font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(60,64,67)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">• 2022 MSA-Seoul Conference Dates:
July 3, 2022, to July 7, 2022</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(60,64,67)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">• Submission Deadline<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (extended): <b>February 5, 2022, 5pm (KST)</b></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(60,64,67);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">• Notification of Acceptance:<b>
March, 2022 (specific date TBA)</b></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">• All
presenters must be MSA members in good standing, having paid their membership
fees. For more information on how to join, please visit our ‘Become a Member’
page. </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/membership-levels-2/"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/membership-levels-2/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">< Travel Grants ></font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">A limited
number of travel grants will be made available for low-income members. Details
will be announced soon.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="">Further questions can be addressed to </span><span lang="EN-US" style=""><a href="mailto:conference@memorystudiesassociation.org" style="">conference@memorystudiesassociation.org</a></span></font><b style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(255,153,0)"></span></b></p></div></div>