10th "Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia" International Interdisciplinary Conference

The 10th "Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia" International Interdisciplinary Conference explores memory, melancholy, and nostalgia across individual, social, cultural, and artistic dimensions, examining how these phenomena shape human experience and expression.

Key Topics

• Unwanted memory
• Nostalgia and longing
• Nostalgia as an illness
• Nostalgia, melancholy and old age
• Return to childhood
• Nostalgia and gender
• Nostalgia and religion
• Nostalgia and nationalism
• Nostalgic literature
• Nostalgic cinema
• Literature and the arts as a vehicle of memory
• Nostalgia and political movements
• Nostalgia, melancholy and memorials
• Nostalgia, melancholy and community development
• Nostalgia and post-memory
• Nostalgic dreams
• Healing power of nostalgia
• Nostalgia, melancholy and mourning
• Nostalgia, melancholy and love
• Nostalgia and language
• Nostalgia and climate changing
• Nostalgia, melancholy and migration
• Nostalgic phantasms
• Nostalgia, melancholy and totalitarianisms
• Nostalgia for something indefinite
• Nostalgia and the myth of eternal return
• Non-melancholic nostalgia
• Nostalgia, melancholy and drive to change
• Melancholic artists

Who should Attend

• Experienced scholars and researchers from diverse academic disciplines
• Young academics and PhD students
• Students interested in interdisciplinary studies
• Listeners interested in memory, nostalgia, and melancholy
• Professionals from anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, philosophy, literature, theatre, film studies, migration studies, cognitive sciences, and related fields