Centre for the Study of South Eastern Europe, University of Wales,
Lampeter
More information about our forthcoming conference, "INTERSECTING TIMES:
THE WORK OF MEMORY IN SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE" is now available on our
website. It will take place from 25-28 June 2000 at Clyne Castle,
Swansea, Wales, UK.
With 36 speakers, it promises to be a lively event; we have had many
excellent absracts. Here is the original call for papers:
|In the second symposium of the Centre for South-East Europe Studies at
theUniversity of Wales, practioners of all disciplines are invited to
consider how social memory is generated, maintained/consumed and
reproduced, through texts, images, embodied experience, monuments,
sites, landscapes or other forms.In keeping with the inter- and
cross-disciplinary emphasis of the Centre,we are keen
not to reproduce stereotypical views of disciplinary concerns,in which
historians and archaeologists are said to deal with the general and long
term, and anthropologists to lack ahistorical sense. Rather, the
organisers are concerned to highlight thedifferent time-depths involved
in studies of the area, and how these intersect within the lives of
people, communities and objects. What might be the relationships
between tradition, histories (textual, oral or otherwise)and
memory? How are senses of the past more generally reconciled with
present-day and future political and cultural strategies?We are also
concerned to devote part of the workshop to non-textual strategies of
remembering, telling and persuading, and the rhetoric ofvision and
experience. Such visual projection includes narratives
created through monuments, the role of images and films in constructing
biographies of individuals, places, communities and nations, and the
role of material culture in shaping past and present-day realities.
The Programme, booking form and general information are now available on
our website, <http://www.swan.ac.uk/cssee/cssee.htm>.
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