Memory as Medium: Experience, Exchange, Representation
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
March 13 & 14, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marita Sturken (NYU Steinhardt)
We invite both graduate students and faculty members to submit papers which explore the relationship between memory and culture. The goal of this conference is to question the paradigms and practices associated with the study of memory. Our exploration is guided by, but not limited to the following questions: What does it mean to remember and/or to forget? What is the relationship between personal and collective memory? How do we remember as a culture? In what way(s) is memory a political concept? How does memory allow us to examine issues of exclusion and inclusion? Why it is important to study memory?
We invite papers from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives to explore and contest the following themes:
Collective remembrance
Memory and media: preservation and recirculation
Citizenship, nationality, globalization
Questions of identity and resistance
The role of the senses in collecting and constructing memories
Artistic and/or technological practices of making, capturing and preserving memories
Facing the ghosts of the past: the memory of traumatic events
Inventions of colonialism and decolonization
Representations of history through nostalgia and kitsch
Please also inform us of any audio-visual requirements you will have. Please attach a short bio (approx. 100 words) including the following: name, title of your presentation, name of your department and institution, research interests and contact information. Abstracts will be reviewed by a committee comprised of faculty and graduate students.
CGC Conference Co-Chairs:
Irina Mihalache & Emily Truman
School of Journalism and Communication
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON Canada K1S 5B6
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