Dear list members,
The 14th Nordic TAG conference will take place in Stockholm on April 22.-26. 2014, and the general conference theme is 'Archaeology as a source of theory'.
This is a call for papers for the conference session 'Archaeology and Memory' where focus will be on the relations between matter and memory and on how archaeology and an archaeological insight may contribute to understandings of memory and alternative notions of memory.
Abstracts (max 150 words) should be sent to Þóra Pétursdóttir, [log in to unmask], before December 15th.
You can read the full session abstract below, and find more information on the 14th Nordic TAG here:
http://www.archaeology.su.se/english/about-us/events/conferences/xiv-nordic-tag-2014
Best regards,
Þóra Pétursdóttir (PhD in Archaeology) and Bjørnar Olsen (Professor in Archaeology), University of Tromsø Norway
Archaeology and memory
Þóra Pétursdóttir and Bjørnar Olsen, University of Tromsø.
Memory has for the last decades been a central theme of study in the humanities and social sciences. Grounding most of these studies is the conception of memory as in essence a conscious and willful human process of recalling the past. Despite that objects, sites or places may be included and also considered important for projecting, inscribing or objectifying memory, such as in Pierre Nora’s much referred to notion of lieux de mémoire, they are themselves not considered decisive for the act of remembering. The crucial issue is rather the past event (real or invented), and the will to remember it through subsequent site embodiments (the selection, appropriation, and/or construction of sites, monuments, memorials etc.). This also characterizes how memory, as a fear of forgetting, largely is conceived and articulated within the heritage sphere today.
In this session we invite papers that discuss alternative and more genuinely material approaches to memory, approaches that explicitly explore the role of things in remembering and in upholding the past. This, of course, not the least includes archaeological things, and how the stranded, redundant and ruined can actualize or bring about different, spontaneous and involuntary memories. We also invite papers that more generally scrutinize the relationship between archaeology and memory, and thus also the dominant historization of the past. Considering the number of isomorphic features between memory and the archaeological record (as being incomplete, fragmented, topological, non-linear, etc.), could we not claim that archaeology is in fact more akin to memory than to history? And accordingly, how can an archaeological perspective and sense of things contribute to new and more tangible conceptions of memory?
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