Where:
Ghent
When:
9-11 September 2013
Deadline
for submissions: 1 April 2013
For the
second edition of the annual summer school organized by the Mnemonics network,
an international collaborative initiative for graduate education in memory
studies, we invite paper proposals from graduate students that address the
transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and/or transdisciplinary
dynamics of memory.
What
unites much of the most exciting research going on in the field of memory
studies today is a tendency to regard memory not as fixed but as fluid, not as
static but as dynamic, not as bound but as unbound. Memory is increasingly
being seen as something that does not stay put but circulates, migrates,
travels. The 2013 Mnemonics summer school will explore this trend as it
manifests itself on various levels. It will examine how memory crosses
cultural, generational, medial, and disciplinary boundaries, and how memory
studies has responded, or can respond, to these mnemonic dynamics.
Whereas
early work in memory studies focused on the ways in which memories are shared
within particular communities and constitute or reinforce group identity, in
recent years the transcultural, transnational, and even global circulation of
memories has moved to the centre of attention. At the same time, there has been
a marked increase of interest in how memory travels between different media,
and specifically in the role of digital media in the production, preservation,
and dissemination of memories. As the Holocaust begins to pass out of living
memory, the question of how memories of survivors of historical traumas are
transmitted to, and inherited by, members of later generations has become
another area of intense inquiry. Furthermore, memory studies appears to be
moving towards greater interdisciplinarity, or, at least, enhanced awareness of
the necessity or desirability of cross-fertilization between memory research in
the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
We
welcome proposals for papers that put the “trans” into memory studies, in the
sense of exploring the manifold ways in which memory, and the study of memory,
is on the move.
For more information:
http://www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/cfp-ghent/
Confirmed
Keynote Speakers
Astrid
Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University
Frankfurt am Main. She has worked on memories of the First World War, the
Spanish Civil War, British colonialism in India, and the Vietnam war. She is
general editor of the book series Media and Cultural Memory (de Gruyter, since
2004), co-editor of A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies (with Ansgar
Nünning, 2010), Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
(with Ann Rigney, 2009), and author of Memory in Culture (2011) / Kollektives Gedächtnis
und Erinnerungskulturen (2005, 2nd ed. 2011), an introduction to memory
studies. She is part of the editorial board of the journal Memory Studies
(SAGE) and the book series Memory Studies (Palgrave).
Susannah
Radstone is Professor of Cultural Theory in the School of Arts and Digital
Industries at the University of East London. She is the author of The Sexual
Politics of Time: Confession, Nostalgia, Memory (Routledge, 2007) and has
edited numerous books, including Memory and Methodology (Berg, 2000); Memory,
History, Nation: The Politics of Memory (with Katharine Hodgkin; Transaction,
2005); Memory Cultures: Memory, Subjectivity, and Recognition (with Katharine
Hodgkin; Transaction, 2005); and Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates (with
Bill Schwarz; Fordham UP, 2010). She is currently working on a monograph to be
titled Getting Over Trauma and developing a research project on the locatedness
and mobility of remembering and theorizing memory.
Michael
Rothberg is Professor of English and Conrad Humanities Scholar at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Director of the
Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Initiative. Affiliated with the Unit
for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures, and the Programs in Comparative Literature and Jewish Culture and
Society, Rothberg works in the fields of critical theory and cultural studies,
Holocaust studies, postcolonial studies, and contemporary literatures. His
latest book is Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of
Decolonization (2009), published by Stanford University Press in its “Cultural
Memory in the Present” series. He is also the author of Traumatic Realism: The
Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000) and co-editor with Neil Levi of The
Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003).
Format
The
Mnemonics summer school serves as an interactive forum in which junior and
senior memory scholars meet in an informal and convivial setting to discuss
each other’s work and to reflect on new developments in the field of memory
studies. The objective is to help graduate students refine their research
questions, strengthen the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of their
projects, and gain further insight into current trends in memory scholarship.
Each of
the three days of the summer school will start with a scene-setting keynote
lecture, followed by sessions consisting of three graduate student papers,
responses, and Q&A.
In order
to foster incisive and targeted feedback, all accepted papers will be
precirculated among the participants and each presentation session will be
chaired by a senior scholar (one of the keynote speakers or a faculty member
from one of the partner institutions) who will also act as respondent.
Additionally,
a short reader will be compiled in consultation with the keynote speakers and
made available in advance, so as to provide participants with a shared
background for the research and discussions before and during the summer
school.
Practical
Information
Where: Ghent
University, Belgium. Listed among Lonely Planet’s top 10 cities for 2011, Ghent
is an enchanting and vibrant city in the heart of Flanders, easily accessible
by train from Brussels Airport (BRU) and by shuttle coach and train from
Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL). The summer school will be held at Het
Pand, Ghent University’s conference facility, which is housed in a beautifully
preserved medieval monastery located in the historical centre of the city.
When: 9-11
September 2013 (arrival on the 8th; departure on the 12th)
Fee: 250
euros, payable upon acceptance of paper proposal
What is
included: Attendance;
good-quality student accommodation in the city centre (4 nights); all
breakfasts, lunches, refreshments, and one dinner
What is
not included:
Travel;
optional museum visit on final day
Send:
A
300-word abstract for a 15-minute paper (including title, presenter’s name,
institutional affiliation, and any technology requests), a description of your
graduate research project (one paragraph), and a short CV (max. one page) as a
single Word document to mnemonics@ugent.be
Deadline
for submission of abstracts: 1 April
2013
Notification
of acceptance: 1 May
2013
Deadline
for submission of paper drafts: 15 August
2013
Number of
places: 24, of
which 18 are reserved for the partner institutions
Learn
more about Ghent University and its Centre for Literature and Trauma, the institutional
home of the organizing committee members (prof. dr. Stef Craps, prof. dr.
Philippe Codde, dr. Stijn Vervaet, dr. Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand, Toby
Smethurst, and Sean Bex), at http://www.ugent.be/en and http://www.litra.ugent.be/.
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