Where: Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore
When: October 5-6, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow, UK)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow, UK)
Memory studies has emerged as
a growing field of research in recent years, attracting scholars from various
countries in diverse disciplines. The introduction of the new media has
augmented the zeal for memory-making practices in different societies around
the world. The Internet and participatory tools of Web 2.0 has contributed to
the upsurge in user-generated content. Much of these contents are
generated through narratives, stories, pictures and even videos, which also
provide a remarkable possibility in fostering and facilitating the production
of memories and histories. Furthermore, the Internet’s capability for
information storage and sharing has afforded people platforms to impart their
recollections of the past. As such, the intersections involving new media,
memory and history are attracting academic interest from scholars in Sociology,
Geography, History, Communication, Cultural Studies and Information Studies,
who are drawing upon various theoretical and methodological approaches in
examining the juxtaposition between new media, memories and histories.
This conference aims to gather
scholars from different disciplines to deliberate and reflect on key issues,
paradigms and research trajectories, as well as to identify possible
collaboration opportunities for further investigation on memories and
production of historical knowledge in a new media age. We invite papers
in English that are relevant (but not limited) to the following suggested
themes:
New media, memory and popular
culture
Digitization of memories on
wars, trauma and disaster
New media and the production
of historical knowledge
Virtual museums and memory
Digital storytelling and
memory
Social networking sites and
their impact on memories
Memories and nation-building
in the digital age
Digital memories and cultural
heritage
Primarily, the conference will
allow scholars to reflect upon the reciprocal relations of new media, memories
and histories, and to probe the distinctions between new media and traditional
media environments in enabling remembering and/or forgetting. Through the
conference, academics will also interrogate the power dynamics and tensions of
the different social actors that construct memory-texts and memory discourses
via new media. It is hoped that the conference will serve as a platform in the
development and formation of new approaches, methodologies and directions in
the study of the interface between new media, memories and histories.
Please send an abstract of not
more than 300 words to Dr Brenda Chan [brendachan@ntu.edu.sg] by 16
April 2012. Abstracts should be in Word format and should include name of
author(s), institutional affiliation and email address. Notification of
acceptance will be sent out on 30th April 2012. If the abstract is accepted, a
full paper of 6000-8000 words will have to be submitted by 17 September
2012. The conference organizers plan to publish selected conference papers
in an edited book, or in a special issue of a relevant journal.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts due: 16 April 2012
Full papers due: 17 September 2012
Conference dates: 5-6 October 2012
Conference venue: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE, 31 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637718
Abstracts due: 16 April 2012
Full papers due: 17 September 2012
Conference dates: 5-6 October 2012
Conference venue: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE, 31 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637718
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