Hi -

I am organising a couple of seminar panels at a conference in Santiago, Chile, in January 2014.

I am short of two speakers to give twenty minute papers on the theme of 'The Uses of Memory in in Migration History'. You would need to find your own funding. 

Here is what we have so far. Please contact me (Peter Leese: [log in to unmask]) if you would like to submit a proposal & I can give you further details.
I have until 30 March to fill the two places. We would also like to run a parallel (rehearsal) event in Copenhagen at the end of this year.

Panel chair: Peter Leese,
Associate Professor, Department of English
ENGEROM, University of Copenhagen

CfP:
In her 1990 essay on ‘Metaphors of Self in History’ Virginia Yans-McLaughlin argues that migration history methodology should be reconsidered. Moreover, she recommends a textual analysis of migrant lives as expressed in ‘personal documents’ (letters, interviews, diaries etc). Since Yans-McLaughlin’s statement narrative interpretation techniques have quickly developed across the human sciences, for example in oral history, which increasingly incorporates thematic, structural and performance analysis. Similarly, histories of collective memory have begun to describe through detailed case studies of war, for instance, the procedures by which social memory emerges and evolves across generations. Yet these new methods are less often applied to migration history, which concerns itself often with the movement and settlement of national or regional communities, with diasporic dispersals, or with transnational systems. This panel considers the methodologies of 'memory work', and the ways in which it might allow us to supplement, personalise and enrich more established approaches to create new cultural histories of migration.

Paper 1: THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COLLECTIVE IN MEMORIES OF CHILEAN REFUGEES IN DENMARK. 
Anne Marie Ejdesgaard Jeppesen, Associate professor, ph.d., Centre for Latin American Studies, ENGEROM, University of Copenhagen

Paper 2: MIGRATION, UTOPIA AND MEMORY: LETTERS FROM CUBAN BALSEROS.
Jan Gustafsson, Associate Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, ENGEROM, University of Copenhagen.

Paper 3: IN TRANSIT: VISUALISING MIGRATION IN CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND JONAS MEKAS
Peter Leese, Associate Professor, Department of English, ENGEROM, University of Copenhagen

Paper 4: SANDHYA SURI’S I FOR INDIA : REDISCOVERING THE MIGRANT’S VOICE
Robert Cross, Professor, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University Kyoto, Japan

Peter
  
Dr Peter Leese
Associate Professor of British History and Contemporary Britain
Institute of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Faculty of Humanities
University of Copenhagen
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Subject: job at Cambridge University Library (Medieval Manuscripts Specialist)

The following post might be of interest to some on this list:

Medieval Manuscripts Specialist (Special Collections Division)
see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Vacancies/#665

The successful candidate will lead the development of high quality
reader-focussed services to support scholarship on the manuscripts,
promoting them to the research community at local, national and
international level. He/she with deal with all aspects of the care and
administration of medieval manuscripts and will be outward-looking in
developing innovative digital services alongside traditional methods to
support the University in its teaching, learning and research and to
make the medieval manuscripts accessible to the widest possible
audience. He/she will have the necessary skills and enthusiasm to
exploit the opportunities created by the Cambridge Digital Library
(http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk) and to take a leading part in planning and
implementing a new online catalogue of medieval manuscripts.

Applications close 18 March.


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Head of Content Programme,
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Cambridge University Library,
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