CALL FOR PAPERS
EXPLORATION AND MEMORY
Conference at the National Maritime Museum
Thursday to Saturday, 13-15 September 2018
To mark the opening of its new exploration wing in September 2018, the
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, invites proposals for papers centred
on the role and significance of memory in histories of exploration. Over
the last few decades maritime exploration in its broadest sense has become
one of the most exciting fields of study, with researchers from many
different disciplinary backgrounds enriching, questioning and
reinterpreting the subject for contemporary audiences. Increasingly,
indigenous voices are challenging long-held assumptions and introducing a
greater complexity to histories of encounter, exchange and the legacies of
exploration. At the same time contemporary artists and writers are
re-imagining exploration for new audiences. This conference is intended to
consider exploration from the equally vibrant perspective of memory
studies. Presentations will focus on the history, poetics, and material and
visual culture of exploration, exploring how these have changed over the
years and what their legacies have been, and continue to be.
Suggested themes for the conference to explore include: interactions
between historical accounts and cultural representations of exploration;
remembering first encounters; exploration, public history and
memorialization; exploration, art and culture; material culture and the
collection of objects and their competing meanings; the poetics of
exploration: literature, photography, film and drama; narrating 'difficult'
histories.
Proposals of no more than one side of A4 and a brief biography should be
sent to:
Lizelle de Jager, Research Executive, National Maritime Museum, London SE10
9NF
E-mail [log in to unmask]; telephone 0208 312 6716
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2018
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