15/09/2025
👋 We are thrilled to announce that the IV Cracovian Congress of History Students is going to take place between the 16th and 18th of April 2026! 🏫
⏳ “Collective Memory Throughout the Ages” - this year’s conference title resonates across the fields of public history, memory studies, and both local and global historical narratives. It invites reflection on memory across all eras. 💡
🧑🎓 We warmly invite undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students of history and related disciplines to submit paper proposals that explore the different ways in which collective memory has been shaped since antiquity and is still shaping societies, communities and entire nations. 📜
❗ The most important details:
Date: 16th - 18th of April 2026
Place: Collegium Novum, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland; 14 Gołębia Street
Fee: 70 € (4 nights accommodation, meals, cultural program)
Travel costs are not included!
📚 Submission detail:
Deadline: 11th of January 2026, 23:59 CEST
8th of February 2026 - date of an official response to your application (we ask for your patience, everyone is going to receive it at the same time)
📓 Abstract:
Title: bold, Times New Roman, size 12 (centered).
Font: Times New Roman, size 12, line spacing 1.5.
Length: around 450 words.
Content: The abstract should briefly present the research problem, methodology, and main conclusions.
The Congress will be held in English, therefore the abstract and bibliography must be in this language. 📄
📕 Bibliography:
A bibliography must be attached to the abstract (for example on the next page).
It should include at least 9 items:
❗ 3 primary sources
❗ 6 scholarly studies (Only peer-reviewed or academically recognized works will be accepted).
💡 We have prepared a list of topics that can be used, but of course, feel free to explore the idea of collective memory in your own way! 🌳
🔹 social reception of historical events (interpretation of events - uprisings, wars, peace treaties, social changes and transformations)
🔹 memory about events connecting societies (places, rituals, holidays)
🔹 trauma, repression, denial and forgetting (genocides, colonial violence, crimes)
🔹 politics of memory (memory as a tool of conflict; who decides what we remember; politics of historical memory)
🔹 mechanisms of memory and oblivion (commemoration and omission)
🔹 founding myths (legends justifying the existence of communities, mythologization of figures and processes)
🔹 popular culture and collective memory (Schindler’s List, Call of Duty: WW2, Troy)
🔹 difficult memory (the breakup of Yugoslavia, Middle East)
🔹 culture of memory (symbolism – flags, gestures, colours)
🔹 collective memory in historical education (museums, monuments, intangible historical/cultural heritage)
🔹 historical reenactment
You can submit your application here! ⬇️
https://forms.gle/iaezZ5KGuSmLRPVv5
If any questions arise, feel free to contact us via e-mail: [email protected]! We'll be happy to help. 📩
See you in April in Kraków! 🤗🇵🇱
