Call for Papers: The Cultural Politics of Memory

[Alon Lischinsky]

(With apologies for cross-posting)

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CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF MEMORY

14-16 MAY 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

The politics of remembering and forgetting are important social and
cultural issues. The authority, power and resources with which to
create hegemonic versions of the past – to give authoritative accounts
that are available in the public domain – are largely the property of
institutions. Questions of power, voice, representation and identity
are central to Cultural and Collective Memory.

This interdisciplinary conference will address how hegemonic
narratives of the past are reproduced or challenged. It will examine
the role of Cultural and Collective Memory in shaping meanings, values
and identities. Papers are encouraged to address the relationship
between past and present in Cultural and Collective Memory and how
this relates to social power relations.

Papers are welcome in areas such as:

·      Cultural memory and the archive
·      Curating memory
·      Globalised memory
·      Marginalised histories
·      Memory and affect
·      Memory and anti-colonial struggle
·      Memory and class
·      Memory as gender/sexual politics
·      New technologies and memory
·      Public history
·      Racialised memory
·      Religion and cultural memory
·      Space, place and memory
·      Theoretical approaches to cultural and collective memory

Please send a 300 word extract and a short CV to: cpm at cardiff.ac.uk

Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: 31 January 2014
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