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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">Promiscuous Signs: Place-Making and Social Memory in Post-Colonial/Post-Conflict Cities</span></b><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">Organizers:</span></b><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">Kristin Gee Hickman, Croft Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">Stephanie V. Love, Ph.D. Candidate, City University of New York (CUNY), The Graduate Center</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">Panel Abstract:</span></b><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">Literature on the relationship between place-making and social memory in post-colonial, post-conflict urban spaces tends to home in on one particular event
or moment of violence, which seeps into and animates social relations, spatial formations, and identity in the present. Certain events of originary violence—whether the dispossession of land, a massacre, a revolutionary or civil war, etc.—become tropes or
prisms through which anthropologists and local informants alike process and interpret everyday life and social relations (Huyssen 2003). </span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">Yet recent work in both urban anthropology and archaeology have focused on how urban imaginaries come to be shaped by paradoxical and competing memory work,
in which complex temporal layerings and composite overlapping pasts become materially embedded in urban landscapes (Munn 2013). Social actors, in turn, must creatively (albeit unpredictably) draw on material and palimpsestic signs of various pasts to negotiate
fraught presents and potential futures, including fears over the inevitable ‘return to violence’ (Nucho 2016). This urban memory work can play out in contested place-naming and cartography (Azaryahu 1996; Massad 2006); archaeology that excavates alternative
pasts to justify present and future territorial control (Abu El-Haj 2001); public photo exhibitions of <i>desaparesidos </i>in South America<i> </i>that get framed in terms of the Holocaust<i> </i>(Huyssen 2003); urban politics of despair and senses of loss
that reach beyond a single event (Oushakine 2009); among other contested urban place-making and memory practices. </span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">In this panel, we seek to re-examine how post-colonial, post-conflict place-making and interpersonal identity formation draw on and unevenly pull together
a multiplicity of signs of violence and pasts. By doing so, we hope to open up the possibility of seeing signs in and of the present not only as indexical of one originary moment, but rather consider the way that urban space “excessively gathers stories, memories,
and feelings” and “releases them with a promiscuous indexicality” (Gray 2011).</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">We particularly encourage papers from a variety of regional focuses that cover topics such as: </span></u><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:inherit,serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">Various semiotic processes which engender complex temporalities in urban spaces </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:black">
<span style="font-family:inherit,serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">Complex and/or paradoxical signs of violence that recruit people into particular and paradoxical urban imaginaries</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:black">
<span style="font-family:inherit,serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">The materiality of urban landscapes which do specific types of memory work</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; color:black">
<span style="font-family:inherit,serif; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Memories of violence or other problematic pasts which (dis)orient people in and
mitigate how people move through urban landscapes</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in">We welcome papers with diverse regional foci that speak broadly to these themes. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words, together with your name,
title, institutional affiliation, and email address to <span style="background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Stephanie Love (slove@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Kristin Hickman (kghickma@olemiss.edu) by <b>Monday,
March 23rd</b>.</span></span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Works Cited:</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Abu El-Haj, Nadia. <i>Facts on the Ground: Archaeological
Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society</i>. Chicago: IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001.</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Azaryahu, Maoz. “The Power of Commemorative
Street Names.” <i>Enivornment and Planning D: Society and Space</i>14 (1996): 311–30.</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Gray, Lila Ellen. "Fado's City." <i>Anthropology
and Humanism</i>36, no. 2 (2011): 141-163.</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Huyssen, Andreas. <i>Present Past: Cultural Memory in the
Present</i>. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Massad, Joseph A. “The ‘Post-Colonial’ Colony: Time, Space,
and Bodies in Palestine/Israel.” In<i>The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians</i>, 13–40. New York: Routledge, 2006.</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Munn, Nancy D. “The ‘Becoming-Past’ of Places:
Spacetime and Memory in Nineteenth-Century, Pre-Civil War New York.” <i>HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory</i> 3, no. 2 (2013): 359–80.</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Nucho, J. R. “All That Endures from Past
to Present.” In <i>Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power</i>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black; border:1pt none windowtext; padding:0in; background-color:white; background-position:initial initial; background-repeat:initial initial">Oushakine, S. A. <i>The Patriotism of Despair:
Nation, War, and Loss in Russia</i>. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.</span><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>
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