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Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage
| Location: | Turkey |
| Conference Date: | 2011-05-26 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-05-24 |
| Announcement ID: |
185476 |
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This conference is organized around the broad theme of the contemporary uses of the past. Papers of the conference explore how the past is continuously shaped, recreated, possessed, dispossessed, re-lived, experienced, remembered, and forgotten. At the global scale, we are witnessing the de-and-re-contextualization and de-and re-territotialization of ancient objects, monuments and sites of different material life worlds in contemporary practices and cosmologies. These include global heritage preservation efforts, the spectacle and entertainment industry, neoliberal notions of development and tourism, capitalism, consumerism and new media. They are part of the current “flow” across time and space. At the local scale, we see the deployment and also destruction of materials of the past by nationalisms, the processes of hegemonic or alternative collective memory production, conflict and post-conflict situations, place-making activities and identity construction processes. Objects and monuments of the past are re-appropriated and imbued with new meanings and senses and/or intentions to evoke the ancient potent meanings. In this process they become objects of new materialities and also containers and producers of new immaterialites.
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