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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. We hope to explore and challenge existing discourses by opening up new areas of inquiry. Possible themes include:

o Collective remembrance
o Memory and media: preservation and recirculation
o Citizenship, nationality, globalization
o Questions of identity and resistance
o The role of the senses in collecting and constructing memories
o Artistic and/or technological practices of making, capturing and preserving memories
o Facing the ghosts of the past: the memory of traumatic events
o Inventions of colonialism and decolonization
o Representations of history through nostalgia and kitsch

Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to Emily Truman (ejtruman@connect.carleton.ca), by Tuesday, January 15, 2008. Please see website for more information.