CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference: The Cultural Politics of Memory

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference:

The Cultural Politics of Memory

Date: 14-16 May 2014

Place: Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference:

The Cultural Politics of Memory

Date: 14-16 May 2014

Place: Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University

Deadline: 31 January 2014

The politics of remembering and forgetting are important social and cultural issues. The authority, power and resources with which to create hegemonic versions of the past – to give authoritative accounts that are available in the public domain – are largely the property of institutions. Questions of power, voice, representation and identity are central to Cultural and Collective Memory.

This interdisciplinary conference will address how hegemonic narratives of the past are reproduced or challenged. It will examine

the role of Cultural and Collective Memory in shaping meanings, values and identities. Papers are encouraged to address the relationship between past and present in Cultural and Collective Memory and how this relates to social power relations.

Papers are welcome in areas such as:

Cultural memory and the archive

Curating memory

Globalised memory

Marginalised histories

Memory and affect

Memory and anti-colonial struggle

Memory and class

Memory as gender/sexual politics

New technologies and memory

Public history

Racialised memory

Religion and cultural memory

Space, place and memory

Theoretical approaches to cultural and collective memory

Please send a 300 word extract and a short CV to: cpm@cardiff.ac.uk .

Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: 31 January 2014.