CALL FOR PAPERS
Where: Lund, Sweden
When: May 14-16, 2012
Deadline for submission: March 1, 2012
Since the 1980s Memory Studies
have developed intensively as a creative, interdisciplinary and well-established field of
research. Yet the field remains fragmented: national research environments tend to focus on representations
of cultural memory within specific national contexts, and researchers coming
from different disciplines are frequently holding on to their own theoretical
and methodological approaches. We hope that the conference will generate
discussions about the state of the art in Memory Studies as well as the future
of the research in the field. How can we
consolidate Memory Studies? What kind of new directions within the field we can
identify today? We would also like to
involve you in the discussion on the idea of ‘European Memory’, what it is and how it relates to the memories
of nations, regions, migrant communities and the world outside Europe. Drawing
on recent theoretical insights pointing to the importance of memory migration
and mediation, the influence of new media, changing cultural contexts, and
memory as a source of transcultural ethics, the conference will explore how
memory works as a transcultural and transnational force, mainly but not solely
in Europe.
We welcome papers that aim to
explore the tension between attempts by European cultural and political elites to create some
form of common European memory or at least a unitary memory ethos on one hand
and numerous ‘memory conflicts’, caused by divided and contested memories of oppression
and violence on the other. Understanding the conflict-provoking potential of
this memory legacy and exploring how it may be managed in a reconciliatory
fashion constitute an acute challenge to interdisciplinary Memory Studies. We are convinced that the future
of Memory Studies lies in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary cooperation, however difficult
such an endeavor might be. Hence we warmly welcome to our conference scholars
from different disciplines – the humanities, political and social sciences (including
psychology and communication studies), history, etc.
© Lucas Bietti
2008
Keynote speakers for this
three-day conference include
Claus Leggewie – Professor of
Political Science at Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Daniel Levy – Associate Professor
of Sociology at Stony Brook University
Leyla Neyzi, Professor of Social Anthropology, Sabanci University in Istanbul
Leyla Neyzi, Professor of Social Anthropology, Sabanci University in Istanbul
Jeffrey Olick, Professor of
Sociology at University of Virginia
James E. Young, Professor of
English and Judaic Studies at University of Massachusetts
The papers at the conference will
be presented and discussed in thematic workshops. If you are interested in participating in one
or more of the following workshops please contact the chair of the workshop
directly (see the contact details below).
If you are not sure which workshop is most suitable for your paper
please send a short abstract to the coordinator niklas.bernsand@slav.lu.se for suggestions.
A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be subsequently
published.
WORKSHOPS
1) Remembering forced migrations and ethnic
cleansings in Europe (Chair: Barbara.TornquistPlewa@slav.lu.se)
2) Memory and Place in European Cities (Chair:
Bo.Larsson@cfe.lu.se
3) Memory, Emotions and Politics
(Chair: Tea.Sindbaek@cfe.lu.se)
4) Asymmetric memories in Europe
(chair: Conny.Mithander@kau.se)
5) Transnational cultural memory
(chair: John.Sundholm@kau.se)
6) Remediating memory (chair:
Maria.Holmgren.Troy@kau.se)
7) Memory and Literary
Representation (Chair: Alexandre.dessingue@uis.no)
8) Nordic realms of memory
(Chair: Peter.Stadius@helsinki.fi)
9) Memory in News Media (Chair:
Niklas.Bernsand@slav.lu.se)
Deadline
The deadline for submitting your
abstract to a Workshop Chair (with a copy to the conference coordinator
niklas.bernsand@slav.lu.se is March 1, 2012.
We look forward to seeing you in
Lund in 2012. Please notice that no conference fee is required.
Conference Chair: Barbara
Törnquist-Plewa (e-mail: Barbara.Tornquist-Plewa@slav.lu.se)
Conference
Coordinator: Niklas Bernsand (e-mail :
Niklas.Bernsand@slav.lu.se)
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