[Commlist] ACS Institute 2026 - call for applications

The deadline for the *ACS Institute 2026* applications has been extended 
to *30 November 2025*. Please feel free to share the information with 
your networks!


*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*
*Call for participants:*https://mempop.eu/acsi-2026/ 
<https://mempop.eu/acsi-2026/>
*Apply to participate by 30 November, 2025 *(deadline 
extended):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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