Dear All,
please find below a call for papers for January's postgraduate symposium at The Nottingham Trent University.
Best wishes
Bill Niven
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Call for Papers
"Remembering by Dissolving? Memory Work and the Blurring of Genre Boundaries"
The Nottingham Trent University invites proposals for papers to be given at a 2-day postgraduate and postdoctoral symposium, planned for the 25th and 26th of January 2007.
The idea for this symposium - which we hope will have a strong workshop dimension to enable postgraduates to exchange ideas - arose from the realisation that more and more postgraduates across the disciplines are working in an area loosely defined as "memory studies". PhD projects exploring the topos of remembering in literature, art, public history, public art, museums, exhibitions, photography, historiography, autobiography and biography abound, with postgraduates working within History, Heritage, Modern Languages, English, Geography and Art History departments (to name but a few). Often, however, postgraduates find themselves crossing discipline boundaries in their research. The hypothesis behind the symposium is that the interdisciplinarity of memory studies is the inevitable result of the increasing dissolution of boundaries between forms (such as historiography, literature, biography/autobiography and public art), a dissolution particularly noticeable when the focus is on the processes and character of memory. Thus historiography with a particular focus on how we remember, or at least on areas of "contested memories", can often be literary in character. Biography and autobiography in their reconstruction of the past often use means more commonly associated with literature or history-writing. Public memorials are becoming increasingly "texted", or else so abstract as to resemble modern or post-modern art. Novels with an interest in the theme of the (re)construction of the past often use photographs, documents or pseudo-historiographical approaches.
The organisers of the symposium would welcome papers which examine the overlapping of genres in relation to ANY memory theme. What is the significance of such overlapping for the way memory-related issues are represented? What are the broader implications?
Please submit your proposal to Professor Bill Niven BY EMAIL at [log in to unmask] no later than the 10th of November 2006. We are hoping that limited funding will be available to help with travel costs, but we cannot promise this at present, and would ask interested postgraduates to secure financial support from their host institution. Certainly we will be seeking to keep costs down to a minimum!
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