MEMORIA Y NARRACIÓN. Influencias transnacionales y contextos locales

VI Simposio Internacional- Justicia, Memoria, Narración y Cultura y III Simposio Internacional La memoria novelada

11-13 de noviembre, 2013.

Sala Menéndez Pidal (0E18)

Centro de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas,CSIC

C/ Albasanz 26-28.Madrid

Organizan: Justicia: Memoria, Narración y cultura (JUSMENACU, CCHS)   Grupo de Investigación La memoria novelada Departamento de Español, Universidad de Aarhus (Dinamarca)  

Con el patrocinio del Consejo de Investigación para la Cultura y la Comunicación de Dinamarca

http://www.cchs.csic.es/es/content/justicia-memoria-narraci%C3%B3n-y-cultura

Nationalisms in Spain: Project Outline and Call for Proposals

Research project on ‘The Dynamics of Nationalist Evolution in Contemporary Spain’ based at the University of Liverpool and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK)

A first workshop on ‘Nationalisms in Spain’ will be held in late September 2014 and proposals for papers are welcome, deadline 4 October 2013.

Call for proposals Researchers interested in contributing to the project are asked to send a proposal to Richard Gillespie (richard.gillespie@liverpool.ac.uk) by 4 October 2013.

This should consist of

* a paragraph on your research profile

* a 200 – word provisional abstract of your proposed paper

* an indication of how you see the paper contributing to aims of the workshop and fitting within the framework outlined.

We are particularly keen to encourage papers that involve comparison between the Basque and Catalan cases, but individual case studies will also be considered for the workshop. Final decisions on the proposals will be made by late October 2013, based not only on consideration of individual contents but also issues of balance between papers and overall coverage of the research questions.

http://nationalismsinspain.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/nationalisms-in-spain-project-outline-and-call-for-proposals.pdf

http://nationalismsinspain.wordpress.com/

Call for Papers: Sound, Memory and the Senses

Call for Papers: Sound, Memory and the Senses, University of Melbourne will be held on 24-25 July 2014 in Melbourne.

The past 20 years has witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly
the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other
Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of
the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding
of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of
past experiences and their representation. The result has been a broadening
of our historical imagination which has previously taken the visual for
granted and ignored the other senses.

We propose a two day conference to debate some of the ongoing issues in
relation to the senses and chart the diversity of the field in Australia.
We encourage engagement with a rich array of sources and methods which
explore the possibilities and limits for the Senses as object of study.
Some of the topics might include:

–    The Sound of War

–    Sensory Urbanism

–    Heritage and locative media

–    The politics of the senses: eavesdropping, surveillance

–    Smell and the historical environment

–    Technology and the Senses

When: 24-25 July 2014

Where: University of Melbourne

Please submit a 200 word synopsis to Paula Hamilton@uts.edu.au by 31st
October 2013.

Dr Paula Hamilton

http://semp2013.kulturad.org/?lang=en

Call for Papers and Call for Panel Proposals

The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS)

The Balkan Network for Culture and Culture Studies (BNCCS)

Annual Conference 2013: «Cultural Memory»

September 5-6, 2013, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

The deadline for proposals is February 1st, 2013

The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) and The Balkan Network for Culture and Culture Studies (BNCCS) will organize the first of many to follow, annually-held conferences, under the overarching theme «Cultural Memory».

The interest in the past, and consequently, the interest in collective and individual memory, is quite pertinent to our overall present-day research interests. Finding a way to articulate and express individual and collective identities, which find themselves under the undeniable pressure of globalization, transition and consumer processes, is becoming increasingly important. On the one hand, in today’s contemporary, post-modern societies, the various ethnic groups call for recognition, which in turn demonstrates a need for the construction of their pasts, and thus, their cultural memories. On the other hand, if national, regional, religious and/or local cultural identities present today were portrayed as more or less stable entities, today they may be observed as nothing more than events, changes or conflicts usually associated with secularization, industrialization, globalization, migration, or many other political, economic, cultural and/or religious. From this stance, culture is seen as shaped under the influence of processes that stand in constant mutual tension. In other words, it is located in a state of constant negotiation with the newly present conditions, values, ideas and beliefs, set in circumstances whence the previously dominant segments are no longer present. In such processes, the term memory occupies a central role.

The objective of this first conference is twofold: namely, to contribute to the study of cultural memory by unlocking narratives about the past (and their canonization), and offer relevant critical observations on the manifestations of cultural memory that are not essentially ‘narratives’. This approach provides a kind of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary access to cultural memory taken from various perspectives.

In this context, we are faced the following questions: how do we recall, remember and forget? What stories are ‘permitted’ and which are ‘forbidden’? How does the past determine the present and shape the future? How do the various discourses of the past determine the social and personal identities? How are our deepest emotions, desires and fantasies articulated in the present through the discursive space of memory? What are the relations between memory and monuments, archives and museums? How can we understand the dual nature of monuments: as tools of ideologically driven memory (fixed memory) and/or as constant sources of creative construction and opening up of memory? Does technological development influence the process of remembering the past? What are the implications of a digitalization of memory? What kind of history is created by the massive use of digital technologies (i.e., online archives that are encoding/decoding their users’ memories in virtual space)? How do the systems used for production affect the ways that use, protect and work with memory? In what ways is cultural tourism associated with memory? How does it reflect the local and global histories in terms of which narratives are being produced and consumed?

On that note, individual and collective memory within the processes of creating identities provides for the contemporary researcher indispensable links to the myriad present-day realities that are at the same time quite problematic. This duality manifests itself in the creative and conceptual forms of expression. Hence, the aim of the conference is to bring closer the various aspects applied in studying cultural memory. The conference aims at fostering a critical dialogue beyond the boundaries set by various disciplines, thus papers from various disciplines and fields are most welcomed, including art history, literature, anthropology, architecture, philosophy, political science, sociology, cultural geography, cultural studies, media and film studies, ethnology and folklore, economics, history, heritage studies, museum studies, landscape studies, leisure studies, tourism studies, transport studies and urban/spatial planning.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Cultural Memory and Identity: family memory; biographical and autobiographical memory; the ‘homå’; immigration; the migrant; borders; nationalism; ethnicity; history and changing historical narratives; tradition; violence; trauma and terror; forgiveness; memories of transitions: important personal and national events.

Cultural Memory and Politics: the use of propaganda; the use of cultural memory; the politics of cultural memory; authority; resistance; creating cultural memory; collective remembering and forgetting.

Cultural Memory and Space/Place: architecture; geography (cartography); the city and urbanization; the use of nature in the collective memory; transformed places; monuments, archives, museums.

Cultural Memory and Social Institutions/Cultural Products: myth; religion; art/literature presentation; language; clashing memories, popular culture.

Cultural Memory and Everyday Life: rituals; bodily practices; nostalgia.

Mediated Memories: cultural representations; mass media/digitalized memories; virtual memories.

Cultural Memory and Tourism: ‘imagined routes’ (mythic highways and meta-narratives); crossing boundaries; war itineraries; violence and displacement; consumerism.

Papers, creative projects, and other non-traditional presentations exploring the aforementioned topics are also welcomed.

The Conference will be held on September 5-6, 2013 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Please submit your proposals to conference@cultcenter.net by February 1st, 2013.

Submissions should include a 250-300 word abstract, keywords and a brief bio, as well as a contact address.

The paper proposals should be prepared filling in a paper form.

Please feel free to contact Loreta Georgievska-Jakovleva (lgeorgievska@yahoo.com) or Mishel Pavlovski (mpavlovski@iml.ukim.edu.mk) with any interim questions.

Notifications of acceptance would come no later than February 15th, 2013.

Abstracts will be published and made available with the conference materials. Full papers will be published in the peer-rewieved journal «Култура/Culture».

We are seeking proposals for panels within the scope of the Conference

Panels are organized by internationally recognized experts aiming to bring together researchers on focused topics for an interactive discussion among the panel members and the participants. Panels are an important component of Annual Conference 2013. Panel members are researchers who have done well-known or controversial work related to the theme of the panel. Researchers interested in organizing a special session are invited to submit a formal proposal to conference@cultcenter.net by February 1st, 2013.

Before submitting a panel proposal, the organizer of a panel is expected to contact all the proposed panel members and get their agreement to serve as a panel member. A list of questions to be discussed in the panel should be made available to all the panel members well ahead of time for them to prepare their response. Each panel typically allows a certain amount of time for each panel member to present their response before an open discussion is opened.

The panel proposals should be prepared filling in a panel form.

Fees:

Early registration (till April 1st, 2013): € 40 (for members of The Balkan Network for Culture and Cultural Studies – € 20)

Late registration (till August 15th, 2013): € 60 (for members of The Balkan Network for Culture and Cultural Studies – € 40)

On-site registration (or after August 15th, 2013): € 80 (for members of The Balkan Network for Culture and Cultural Studies – € 60)

The registration fee includes the conference materials, the publication of the abstract and the papers, refreshment breaks, a welcome dinner for all participants of the Conference.

The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies web site: http://www.cultcenter.net/

Conference web site: http://www.cultcenter.net/conf2013.php

Reunión del Proyecto de Investigación «Comunidad y violencia: espacios públicos para la construcción

Viernes, 14 Diciembre 2012

10:15 hrs. Sala José Gaos 3C
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28

Programa:

-10:15h., «Madrid, la ciudad desplazada», por Julio Díaz Galán (Universidad Europea de Madrid)

-12:30h., «Los límites de la memoria y los límites de la historia. El caso de la represión franquista», por Pedro Piedras Monroy (Escritor y Traductor)

Organiza: Proyecto de Investigación «Comunidad y violencia: espacios públicos para la construcción de memoria y ciudadanía». Investigador Principal: José M. González García (IFS-CCHS, CSIC)

Cartel

Call for paper:

«Violencia política y social en la Europa de la segunda posguerra: balances y nuevas lineas de investigación»

Fecha tope: 10 de enero de 2013

The research group of: “Political and Social Violence in Postwar Europe. Outcomes and Research Perspectives” is organizing four workshops in spring 2013, autumn 2013, spring 2014 and autumn 2014. The workshops will be held at the Istituto storico della Resistenza in Toscana di Firenze (Isrt), at the Istituto per la Storia della Resistenza e della Società contemporanea in provincia di Reggio Emilia (Istoreco) and at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo).

We are interested in political and social violence in Europe after 1945, particularly in Italy, Spain and Germany from a comparative perspective. These three countries experienced similar episodes of political violence just after the Second World War, despite juridical, economic and political differences. The violence occurred both from above (“institutional violence”) and from below (“popular violence”). Examples of “institutional violence” include the preventive detention or administrative detention with no due process for suspected former Nazis in Germany after 1945; or some exceptional Italian laws for special courts with reduced guarantees for the accused to punish fascist crimes. Examples of “popular violence” include operations of former partisans in Italy or the anti-Franco guerrilla resistance in Spain. At the same time, due to conditions of poverty and hunger, social violence unconnected to political claims emerged. Since the border between political and social violence was often undefined it can be difficult to distinguish these two categories.

Forms of violence, occurring in the three countries until the end of the 1940’s, were strictly connected to World War II, but some historical continuities can be observed both in the period before World War II and the post-war decades.

The workshops will be on the following fields of study:

1. Introduction to the issue of the political and social violence in the immediate aftermath of WWII through historiographic questions, debates on the topic, new interpretive approaches and methodological hypothesis.

2. Political and social violence after 1945 in Western Europe: national case studies.

3. The Politics of Punishment: judicial and private uses of violence.

4. Continuities during the second half of the 20th Century in Italy and Europe: management of the public order, practices, language and symbolism of the political and social conflicts.


We seek to develop a team of scholars that can report on the studies about violence after the Second World War in Western Europe (we will also accept proposal about other national case in addition to the three considered). Each scholar will be required to discuss a paper within a workshop and is encouraged to attend the other three. To maximize time for discussion, papers will be circulated in advance to the participants (presenters and discussants).

We particularly welcome the involvement of both established and junior scholars, Post-Doc students and PhD students. We encourage papers on national/local studies and on new interpretative and methodological hypotheses in a comparative perspective.

To be considered for the workshops, please submit a 300-word abstract of your proposed paper, in English or Italian, as well as a brief CV by 10 January 2013 to seminarioviolenza@gmail.com

Successful applicants will be notified by the end of January.

We may be able to assist presenters by partly covering the cost of travel and accommodation.

Scientific Committee: Enrico Acciai (coordinator), Guido Panvini, Camilla Poesio (coordinator), Toni Rovatti.

Conferencia Internacional «Arqueología de los crímenes contra la humanidad y el genocidio»

VI Jornades de Debat de l’Institut Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens i Vives

Barcelona, 13 y 14 de diciembre de 2012

Más información

Clausura de la Exposición «Tiempos de exilio y solidaridad. La Maternidad Suiza de Elna»

Expo_Elna_Cartel28 de noviembre, 2012 a las 18:30 en la Biblioteca María Zambrano de la Universidad  Complutense de Madrid.

Contaremos con la asistencia de la Vicerrectora de Atención a la Comunidad Universitaria, Dña. Cristina Velázquez; el Alcalde de Elna D. Nicolás García; y la Consejera de la Embajada de Suiza Dña. Nathalie Bösch.

The Violence of War: Experiences and Images of Conflict

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Violence of War: Experiences and Images of Conflict

Date: Thursday 19 and Friday 20 June 2014

Place: University College London

Deadline: January 31, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Violence of War: Experiences and Images of Conflict

Date: Thursday 19 and Friday 20 June 2014

Place: University College London

Deadline: January 31, 2014

Although historians dealing with war will inevitably be called to concentrate their attention on violence, often the understanding of how violence itself was perceived, understood, imagined and experienced by combatants and civilians is neglected. Much still needs to be said about how war was shaped by and, in turn, influenced, modern perceptions of violence. Considering war, as John Keegan has put it, first and foremost as ‘a cultural act’, this conference calls attention to the ways in which warfare violence was imagined and understood during the modern era, focusing on the distance between expectations and experiences of war; on the distance between – or coincidence of – ‘imagined’ and the ‘real’ wars. The period considered ranges from the Crimean War to the Second World War and its aftermath.

Topics relevant to this conference may include, but are by no means limited to, the following issues:

1. How have different disciplines examined and explained acts of violence?

2. Is it possible to identify specific cultures of violence in the pre-war era as well as during the war itself? 3. What was the impact of situational and intentional factors on killing and brutalisation? 4. To discuss how we can explain atrocities – as actions motivated by belief, as an unexpectedly horrifying consequence of obeying orders or as matter-of-fact acts of killing. 5. To compare the traumatising effect of violence with pleasure, excitement or gratification in carrying out acts of violence.

We welcome submissions from cultural, social, military, intellectual and other historians and from scholars from neighbouring disciplines (history of art, literary criticism, international relations, war studies, historical sociology, political science and philosophy, amongst others). We encourage a variety of methodological approaches and we particularly welcome the submission of theoretical papers, particularly from sociologists, philosophers, political scientists and anthropologists who have an interest in history.

If you are interested in presenting a 15 minute paper, please send a title, an abstract of no more than 400 words and a short CV to Dr. Matthew D’Auria (m.d’auria@ucl.ac.uk)

Deadline for submission is Friday 31 January 2014.

We plan to publish an edited volume based on a selection of the papers presented at the conference. Please indicate therefore whether you would be interested in further developing your paper for publication after the event.

Limited funding is available. However, we ask participants to apply for funding from their own.

New Poetics of Disappearance. Narrative, Violence and Memory

CALL FOR PAPERS

New Poetics of Disappearance. Narrative, Violence and Memory

Deadline: January 10, 2014.

Date: 16 and 17 June, 2014

Place: Senate House, London

Organisers: Institute of Modern Languages Research, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (University of London), ERC – Narratives of Terror and Disappearance (Universität Konstanz)

CALL FOR PAPERS

New Poetics of Disappearance. Narrative, Violence and Memory

Deadline: January 10, 2014.

Date: 16 and 17 June, 2014

Place: Senate House, London

Organisers: Institute of Modern Languages Research, Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (University of London), ERC – Narratives of Terror and Disappearance (Universität Konstanz)

This conference gathers together academics and writers living and working on memory issues in Latin America, the United States and Europe. We aim to discuss the way in which literature has addressed the complicated neither-dead-nor-alive figure of the disappeared from the 1970s and 1980s to the present. The term disappeared was popularized in Latin America to account for the crimes perpetrated by the dictatorships of the last century, whereby citizens were detained, held and often murdered without trace. Not only ‘standardized’ and ‘transnationalized’ by Human Rights laws, the term was also translated worldwide to describe similar or analogous cases of uncertain death at the hands of a terror State.

The intention of this event is to identify and explore new poetics in the representation of the disappeared. Allegorical narratives, testimonies and memoirs have been predominant forms of addressing this figure in the aftermath of collective traumas. More recently, however, we are witnessing adventurous and experimental writings of the past and of the self. New generations in particular are exploring original ways of narrating this figure in accounts presented as science fictions and hard-boiled memories, fantasy tales and horror stories, autofictions and online diaries.

Some questions that drive this conference are: what are the common formal strategies, motives, and procedures in the literary representation of the disappeared by the postdictatorship/postconflict second generations? What makes this literature different, in its form and concerns, from both the literature of the so-called ‘1.5 generation’ and from the emerging literary production of the third generation? Are there essential differences between the works by children of the disappeared and works by authors who have no disappeared relatives? Is literature always a progressive discourse when it comes to narrating the collective traumas of the past? Or can it also contribute to constructing social stereotypes such as that of the ‘innocent victim’ or the ‘hero’ and stigmas such as that of the ‘traitor’?

Although the conference is centred on literary approaches to the figure of the disappeared, the interdisciplinary nature of many of these contemporary works means that we can no longer stick to formerly rigid genre borders. We thus welcome papers that cross disciplines (literature, theatre, cinema, photography, performance) and draw on non-conventional formats (including comics, social networks and blogs).

We invite colleagues to send an abstract (max. 250 words) for a 20-minute paper, and a brief biographical note by 10 January 2014 to:

Jordana Blejmar (jordana.blejmar@sas.ac.uk

Mariana Eva Perez (mariana.perez@uni-konstanz.de),

and/or Silvana Mandolessi (silvana.mandolessi@uni-konstanz.de)

Papers can be given in English or Spanish.