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I am seeking additional submissions for a developing session entitled "The politics of memory and the state in East and Southeast Asia" for the upcoming Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) conference to be held July 2-5, 2009 in Taipei (http://www.aaanet.org/sections/seaa/index.html). SEAA is a section of the American Anthropological Association.
My paper “New narratives of the national past: remembering the dark night before reform in the subsidy era exhibit at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology” describes the creation of an exhibit which pushed the boundaries of censorship and social criticism and posed “ordinary citizens” as active agents in the push for economic and political reforms. Based on ethnographic research, exhibit analysis and considerations of visitor and staff experiences, I offer glimpses into the context and content of this blockbuster exhibit.
Papers about the politics of memory and the state, in either East or Southeast Asia are welcome. What have anthropologists discovered regarding memory and culture under state socialism and other state formations? How are we dealing with the concept of “the state” in examining cases in different places? How are alternative or even, oppositional memories enacted, and by whom?
Please contact me at bodemer@hawaii.edu if you are interested in submitting an abstract, by Feb. 26, 2009. Please forward to anyone who may be interested.
Thank you,
Margaret B. Bodemer
PhD Candidate, ABD
Department of Anthropology
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
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