International workshop “Moral Emotions and the Memory of Industrial Transformations”

We invite you to submit presentation proposals for the international workshop “Moral Emotions and the Memory of Industrial Transformations”, taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania, at the IIRPS VU on 5-6 November 2026!

How is the transformation of industry remembered, and what emotions does that memory carry? Join us for an international workshop hosted by the MEPOST project, bringing together scholars to explore the moral emotions embedded in memories of (de)industrialization. Moving beyond ruination and nostalgia, the workshop aims at examining the wide spectrum of moral emotions associated with the transformation of industry – and how these memories challenge, contest, or exist on the margins of national narratives. We welcome contributions from diverse national, transnational and institutional contexts and comparative perspectives on how mnemonic emotion narratives (MENs) attached to (de)industrialization play out differently across communicative and cultural memory.

Deadline to submit proposals: 10 June 2026

Find more information about the call and the link to submit proposals here.

This workshop is part of the MEPOST project that has received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT), agreement No S-LL-25-5, and the National Science Center (NCN) Poland, agreement No 2024/52/L/HS2/00283 in the framework of bilateral cooperation program DAINA.

The MEPOST project is co-hosted at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University and at the Center for Research on Social Memory, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw.