Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) International Conference 2024

                                             In association with Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) IIT Madras

                                              Memory, Narrative Designs, and Strategies of Preservation

                                                                  27-29 October 2025 IIT Madras

  This conference aims to examine the interface of narrativity and heritage through the lenses of memory studies. It plans to produce a platform that is dialogic with complex modes of narration and strategies of preservation apropos of heritage, identity, and how the same may be imagined and instrumentalised through material markers, affective apparatus, and discursive designs. Relevant also for the conference are the ecological and sustainable qualities of heritage and how those may be preserved, curated, and calibrated using contemporary discourses from memory studies, fiction, aesthetics, policies, and technology. Drawing on research in cultural studies, heritage studies, security and sustainability studies, science and technology studies, and neuroscience, the 5th memory studies conference organized by INMS, in association with CMS, and hosted at IIT Madras features the following plenary speakers on each of the three days 

• Professor Andrew Hoskins (University of Edinburgh)
• Professor Alex Easton (Durham University)
• Professor Benedikt Hjartarson (University of Iceland)

We invite abstracts (<300 words) on topics including but not limited to Memory, narrative modes, and identity-iterationMemory, preservation, and forms of forgettingMemory, affect, and fictions on collective reconstructionMemory, media, and reception of heritage markersMemory, psychological states, and experiential contextsMemory, monuments, and digitalityMemory, history, and teaching heritage in classrooms  Send in your abstracts by completing a google form here: https://forms.gle/9QpPUX6N4Nfo6p1Z7 Please note that we cannot accept abstracts in email. Accepted candidates will be notified by 31 July 2025. All accepted candidates need to register by 20 August 2025 using a link that will be shared subsequently. Please note that due to the volume of submissions received in INMS conferences earlier, we are unfortunately unable to offer individual feedback for rejected abstracts. Selected presentations may be invited to contribute subsequently with full articles for a special issue of the Memory, Mind, Media journal published by Cambridge University Press.  There are three categories of registration for candidates whose abstracts are accepted  1. Delegates with in-campus accommodation (limited to 50 participants on a first-register basis).Registration fee INR 9000 or USD 100. This will include accommodation on a sharing basis at the IITM guesthouse for three nights, conference kits, coffee and snacks twice each day at the conference venue, conference lunch each day.  2. Delegates without in-campus accommodation. Registration fee INR 5000 or USD 60. This will include conference kits, coffee and snacks twice each day at the conference venue, conference lunch each day.  3. Delegates presenting onlineRegistration fee INR 3000 or USD 30. Online delegates will have access to all plenary speakers’ lectures.  All certificates will be digitally created and emailed to delegates. Due to the high volume of abstract submissions and registrations in previous editions, INMS 2025 will only be able to accommodate delegates who are selected to present.   Important Dates: Deadline for Submission of Abstracts 16 June 2025Intimation of acceptance 31 July 2025Deadline for registration 20 August 2025 Conference Dates 27-29 October 2025