International Society for Cultural History annual conference
History – memory – myth: Re-presenting the past.
When: August 3-6, 2011
Where: University of Oslo
Deadline for submission: February 15, 2011
The conference theme "re-presenting the past" communicates with the international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory, which has grown considerably during the last decades. Studies of commemorations and festivals, monuments, exhibitions and museums, historical films and narratives are now numerous. Terms such as social memory, collective or collected memory, kulturelle Gedächtnis, lieux de mémoire, the presence of the past and the use of history all illustrate the scholarly interest in how the past – or images of it – is constructed, composed, negotiated and built up, but also demolished, dismantled and rejected. This constructional work has been investigated on the individual level, concerning personal memories and private history. Studies in this field have also focused on processes of nation building, the construction of ethnical or other group identities, and heritage care and preservation.
Second call for papers is now open! Dead-line is 15th of february 2011.
Call for papers
The conference theme "re-presenting the past" communicates with the international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory, which has grown considerably during the last decades. Studies of commemorations and festivals, monuments, exhibitions and museums, historical films and narratives are now numerous. Terms such as social memory, collective or collected memory, kulturelle Gedächtnis, lieux de mémoire, the presence of the past and the use of history all illustrate the scholarly interest in how the past – or images of it – is constructed, composed, negotiated and built up, but also demolished, dismantled and rejected. This constructional work has been investigated on the individual level, concerning personal memories and private history. Studies in this field have also focused on processes of nation building, the construction of ethnical or other group identities, and heritage care and preservation.
We hope that the proposed theme will inspire papers and panels on a number of topics within this large field and may, for example, be chosen from the following list:
Heritage and museums
Monuments and historic sites
Historical rituals and celebrations
Material memories
Artifacts as expressions of memory
History and conflict
Memory and trauma
Collective memory and nation building
Migration and memory
Museums as creators of myths
History as myth
New age and the mythical past
Audible memories – recording life stories
History in the mass media
History and popular culture
Another set of themes that participants also are invited to address, concerns the epistemology of cultural history. Does cultural history imply a specific way of representing the past? Do cultural historians investigate the past in other ways and with other methods than other historians? Are there certain kinds of research practises that characterize cultural history?
The conference welcomes papers and panels discussing questions specific to cultural history as a field of study, concerning how cultural historians work and the methods they use. Do they explore other kinds of sources or are they just interested in other themes and topics? Close readings and qualitative sources are fundamental to many cultural historians' representations of the past, but what is the epistemological basis for such a choice? Papers and panels reflecting on theoretical and methodological questions concerning how cultural historians present and represent the past, are indeed welcome.
Please note that to give a paper, you will have to be a member of ISCH.
The conference is also proud to present a selection of keynote speakers: Tony Bennett, François Hartog, Lotten Gustafsson Reinius, Yael Zerubavel and James E. Young.
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