NOSTALGIA AND THE SHAPES OF HISTORY
FRIDAY 13th - SATURDAY 14th JUNE 2008
www.english.qmul.ac.uk/nostalgia.html
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A Postgraduate Conference at Queen Mary, University of London
In association with Memory Studies
Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Mile End, London E1
Registration open now and until Friday May 23rd: £35 (inc. lunches,
refreshments, and conference dinner) / £15 (inc. lunches and refreshments)
Keynote speakers:
Professor Mary Jacobus (Cambridge)
Professor Patrick Wright (Nottingham Trent)
Plenary roundtable chaired by Dr Andrew Hoskins (Director, Warwick Centre
for Memory Studies)
Live performance art by Perrier Award winner Stuart Silver
Video art by Ron Hagell
32 papers in parallel panel sessions: new work on nostalgia and nostalgic
thinking from Sumerian tablets to the new Iranian cinema, via Rousseau and
Proust, Haitian dissident politics and IRA mythology... see
www.english.qmul.ac.uk/nostalgia.html for full details
With thanks to the AHRC, the Queen Mary Humanities and Social Sciences
Graduate School, and Queen Mary Department of English
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