CALL FOR PAPERS
Memory: 1500-1800
Friday, February 25, 2005, UCSB Early Modern Center
CFP Deadline: Monday, November 15th, 2004
The Early Modern Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara and its affiliates invite paper proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on the Center’s 2004-2005 theme, “Memory: 1500-1800.” This one-day conference will explore the many functions and meanings of memory throughout the early modern period.
The program will include nine panelists representing a variety of disciplines, as well as talks by the following invited speakers:
- Marvin Carlson, Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York
- Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Professor of History at Stanford University
- Richard Helgerson, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara
PROPOSALS
We invite proposals from all disciplines, as well as proposals for interdisciplinary papers that use a variety of approaches. Proposals are encouraged to define memory creatively, whether historically, psychologically, culturally, aesthetically, empirically, etc. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- The Palimpsestic
- Construction of Collective or National Memory
- Construction of Individual Memory
- Memorializing
- Ruins, Fragments
- Forgetting
- Sense of a Past and Future
- Adaptations
- Archiving (including Archiving Technologies)
- Remembering/ Dismembering/ Dysmembering
Proposals for 15 minute papers are due by November 15, 2004, and should take the form of a 250-word abstract. Please submit your abstract online at:
http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2004-2005/online_submission.asp
If necessary, you may also email your proposal to the e-mail address given below.
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