medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
Collective memory and the uses of the past:
An interdisciplinary conference
School of History
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
7-9 July 2006
Organizers: Andy Wood and Nicola Whyte
Proposals for papers and panels are invited for this interdisciplinary conference, which forms part of an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project into the uses of the past. The conference will focus on the social, cultural and political uses of the past; the representation of the past; and the meanings and uses of memory. Scholars working in the fields of history, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, politics, literature and cultural studies are encouraged to submit proposals. Proposals from graduate students would be particularly welcome. It is hoped to offer postgraduates a reduced fee for registration, meals and accommodation.
Papers or panels dealing with one or some of the following themes would be welcome:
· Literacy, oral culture and memory
· Contending representations of the past
· Landscape, material culture and memory
· Social memory and class identities
· Memory and gender
· Individuality, subjectivity and memory
· Customary law
· Tradition, custom and myth
· The invention of tradition
· Nationalism and history
· War and memory
· Trauma and memory
· Remembrance and commemoration
· Memory and the construction of space
· Oral history and memory
· Myth, folklore and legend
· Memory and political identities
· The politics of history teaching
· Ethnicity, race and memory
· Memory, work and labour identities
· Peasant memory
· Memory, rebellion and popular politics
· Drama, film and historical representation
· Story-telling, narrative and memory
· Antiquarianism and the sense of the past
Proposals for individual papers or for panels are both welcome. Panel proposals should consist of two or three papers, organized into a 90-minute session, leaving half an hour for discussion (hence, three twenty-minute papers or two thirty-minute papers are envisaged).
For further information contact Andy Wood ([log in to unmask]) or Nicola Whyte ([log in to unmask]), or write to us at: School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ.
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