[Commlist] ACS Institute 2026 call for participants

We are happy to announce that the *CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS 
<https://mempop.eu/acsi-2026/ >* for the *ACS Institute 2026* is open!

*ACS Institute 2026: “Decolonization strategies and memory work in 
popular culture”*
Dates: *April 20-25, 2026*
Institution: *University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia*
Format: *In-person*
For *more information*, please visit the website: 
https://mempop.eu/acsi-2026/ <https://mempop.eu/acsi-2026/>
*Apply to participate by November 15, 2025*: 
https://mempop.eu/application-form/ <https://mempop.eu/application-form/>
*For any queries*, please email: (info /at/ mempop.eu) <mailto:(info /at/ mempop.eu)>

Hosted by the *Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies at the Faculty 
of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia*, the 2026 
Institute is designed to offer a platform for developing new 
perspectives on the impact of *contemporary popular culture as a 
generator of transmedia imaginaries* that are entangled with different – 
and often competing – positionalities, inequalities, struggles, and 
perceptions of time, space, and place. More specifically, the Institute 
addresses popular culture as a vibrant site of decolonial practices, 
many of which are inextricably linked to memory work – conscious, but 
non-essentializing engagement with collective and individual memory as 
an impactful dimension of individual and collective identification and 
agency.

*The ACS Institute 2026 will feature, but is not limited to, the 
following three interconnected dimensions:*
(1) Remembering as Resistance
(2) Decolonization Strategies and Research Methodologies
(3) Inter- and Transmedia Memory Work

The Institute is planned as a *5-day event, comprising a 2-day 
symposium, 3 days of intensive thematic and methodology-focused 
workshops*, and a rich accompanying *cultural program* designed in 
collaboration with the Slovenian Cinematheque and benefitting from 
Ljubljana’s vibrant and dynamic public graffitiscape. The event will 
provide an intense and rewarding pedagogical experience and a space for 
participants to critically reflect on the above thematic issues and 
relevant sociopolitical phenomena and to spend the week learning from 
one another.

*We welcome postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and 
advanced scholars worldwide to share their ongoing projects with various 
disciplinary backgrounds*: cultural studies, media and communication 
studies, cultural sociology, literary studies, film studies, visual 
cultural studies, cultural anthropology, political philosophy, and 
related disciplines are all encouraged to apply.


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