The Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Navarra is pleased to announce our upcoming conference "Empires: Experience, Memory and Idea" to be held in Pamplona, Spain on October 1-3, 2025. We are honored to welcome distinguished keynote speakers:
Julian Go (University of Chicago)
Karl Gustafsson (Stockholm University)
Peter Heather (King's College London)
Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study)
Maria Mälksoo (University of Copenhagen)
This conference seeks to create a space for dialogue across disciplinary boundaries, examining how the force of imperial pasts and the force of present interpretations interact to shape contemporary global politics. It aims to develop new conceptual frameworks for understanding how societies remember and forget their imperial experiences, and how these processes of remembrance and forgetting continue to shape international relations, domestic politics, and cultural production in our post-imperial present.
We welcome submissions from scholars in Anthropology, Aesthetics, Art History, Comparative Literature, History, Economics, International Relations, Memory Studies, Political Theory, Political Theology, Sociology, and related fields. We particularly encourage approaches that examine the complex interplay between historical legacies and contemporary memory politics in shaping our understanding of empires and that interrogate the experiences, memories, and ideas of imperial and post-imperial spaces.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2025
Conference Dates: October 1-3, 2025
Please send your submissions to icsevents@unav.es.
For more detailed information, please see the attached 'Call for Papers' document or visit our website: https://www.unav.edu/web/instituto-cultura-y-sociedad/reto-2024-2025/international-conference/