Schedule

Please scroll down to see the day-by-day schedule. Clicking on the name of a panel will take you to the abstracts for that panel. We will add titles and abstracts for plenaries in the next few days.

The number in each panel session indicates the room that the panel takes place in. For instance, A2 would be in room 2, and C5 would be in C5, and so on.

All events take place in the Old College at the University of Edinburgh except for the Anthony D. Smith lecture, which will be at 50 George Square, and the conference dinner, which will be at Cafe Andaluz.

8th April

1900 – informal get-together at the Malt Shovel Inn, 11-15 Cockburn St, Edinburgh EH1 1BP.

9th April

1000-1010 – Conference Welcome

1010-1130 – Plenary 1: Lea David
Into the Memory-Verse: the Infinite Worlds of the Past

1130-1300 – Panel Session A

• A1 – Remembering and forgetting as a tool for nation building
• A2 – Truth and reconciliation
• A3 – Collective Memory Through Identity
• A4 – Uses and abuses of memory
• A5 – Nationalism and Migration 1
• A6 – Memory, Mythmaking, and National Identity

1400-1530 – Panel Session B

• B1 – Collective memory and writing history
• B2 – Nation building and coloniality
• B3 – Remembering the War Through Places
• B4 – The Place of Ethnic Discrimination and Genocide in Memory 1
• B5 – Nationalism and Migration 2
• B6 – A Continuous Quest for a Navel?

1600-1730 – Panel Session C

• C1 – Negotiating belonging
• C2 – National languages and memory
• C3 – Education and National Identity
• C4 – National memory, war and domination
• C5 – Contested Nationalism
• C6 – National Stories

1800-1930 – The Anthony D. Smith Lecture – Lars-Erik Cederman
Nationalism and the Transformation of the State: Border Change, Historical Legacies and Conflict

10th April

0930-1100 – Panels D

• D1 – Televising the nation
• D2 – The nation on social media
• D3 – Reproduction of national memory through cultural activities
• D4 – Narrating national memories
• D5 – Nationalism and Religion 1
• D6 – Violence

1130-1300 – Plenary 2: Jeffery K. Olick
Memory and the American Exception

1400-1530 – Panels E

• E1 – Digitally mediated identity construction
• E2 – Constructing communities through media
• E3 – Nationalization of nature and place
• E4 – The relationship of nationalism and sexuality through memory
• E5 – Nationalism and Religion 2
• E6 – (Post)colonial Memory

1600-1730 – Panels F

• F1 – Digital commemoration
• F2 – Collective identities
• F3 – Reproducing remembrance
• F4 – Nationalism and Education
• F5 – Soviet Pasts
• F6 – Everyday Nationalism(s)

1930-late – Conference Dinner

11th April

0930-1100 – Panels G

• G1 – Memory in the city
• G2 – Feminism and National Identity
• G3 – Reminiscences of the World Wars
• G4 – Nationalism and Activism
• G5 – Art and Nationalism
• G6 – Literature and Nationalism

1130-1300 – Panels H

• H1 – Buildings, maps and communities
• H2 – Nationalism and Memory in Denmark
• H3 – The Place of Ethnic Discrimination and Genocide in Memory 2
• H4 – Political narratives
• H5 – Special Panel on Methods in Research on Nationalism and Memory Studies

1400-1530 – Plenary 3: Anastasiya Pshenychnykh
Memory as a battlefield for identities: monument wars in Ukraine

1530-1545 – Closing and announcement of the 2025 conference