Dear Colleagues,
Below is the call for papers for the Royal Irish Academy's next
annual modern languages symposium, to be held in November 2000.
The themes alternate between literature-based and language-based,
and this year's are literary.
Offers of papers should be sent to Claudine Devereux at the
Academy in Dublin (address below), NOT to me!
Dr Pol O Dochartaigh,
Secretary, Modern Languages Committee,
Royal Irish Academy.
Royal Irish Academy
National Committee for Modern Language Studies
27TH ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Cultural Memory"
After its successful Symposium in Maynooth in 1999, the Royal
Irish
Academy's National Committee for Modern Language Studies will
hold its
twenty-seventh annual research Symposium on the theme of "Cultural
Memory" at the National University of Ireland, Dublin, on 10th and
11th November 2000.
In recent years, cultural memory has aroused considerable academic
interest in such diverse disciplines as Cultural Studies, Psychology,
the traditional Humanities, Technology, Philosophy and the
Sciences.
This ongoing fascination with cultural memory needs to be explored in
the context of the transition towards an information society. While
the age of the internet has made the instantaneous transfer of data
across the globe a reality, it appears, however, that the durability
and authenticity of such data is simultaneously being undermined.
This
raises the question as to how society's cultural memory and sense of
identity is affected by this dramatic change. Wider issues for
investigation include the historical functions and changes in cultural
memory. How is cultural memory negotiated and communicated?
How is it
mediated (for instance through rituals, archives, the fine arts,
memorials, texts etc.)? The conference seeks to address these and
related issues by inviting papers on any aspect of the following five
areas: (i) Remembering the Holocaust; (ii) Historiography and
Memory;
(iii) Sites of Memory; (iv) Points of Crisis and New Beginnings; (v)
Biography and Autobiography.
Papers should be twenty minutes in length, allowing ten minutes for
discussion. Abstracts of approximately 300 words should be sent by
Friday, 12th May 2000 to: Claudine Devereux, Administrative
Officer,
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2
Telephone: +353- 1- 676 2570 Fax: +353- 1- 676 2346 Email:
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