CfP Old Conflicts & New Media (Bergen, 31.08-02.09.2011)

[Ellen Rutten]

The organizers welcome panel and paper proposals for the conference Old
Conflicts & New Media: Commemorating the Socialist Experience Online
(Solstrand/Bergen, Norway, 31.08-02.09.2011; confirmed keynote speaker: Adi
Kuntsman, University of Manchester).

Hosted by the research team of the HERA-funded project *Web Wars *(
www.web-wars.org), Old Conflicts & New Media takes the emerging field of
online memory studies to post-Soviet space. In the 2000s, former Soviet
states still face the challenge of constructing national identities,
producing national memories, and relating to the Soviet legacy. Their pasts
are principally intertwined: changing readings of history in one country
generate fierce reactions in others. In this transnational memory war,
digital media form a pivotal discursive space -- one which provides speakers
with radically new commemorative tools.

Old Conflicts & New Media unlocks the online vectors of post-Soviet memory
by uniting leading scholars and practitioners in the field. The organizers
welcome contributions from any relevant academic discipline, including
language, media, communication and cultural studies, technology studies,
sociology, anthropology, history, and political sciences.

For more details, research questions, deadlines, and practical information,
please visit our conference page:
http://www.web-wars.org/conference/call-for-papers.

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