CALL FOR PAPERS
Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums: Pasts, Presents and Futures
Sogndal, Norway, 6-7 September 2018
We invite proposals for an interdisciplinary conference, which will bring together leading scholars and practitioners in the field, featuring plenaries by literary scholar and expert on authors’ houses Professor Nicola Watson and ethnologist and previous director of the Strindberg Museum Stefan Bohman.
How might literary exhibitions give us a better understanding, not only of an author’s life, but also the creative process, the role of literature, and indeed the author’s writing? How do literary exhibitions interlink real and literary spaces, texts, objects and readers? How do they use new and innovative mediums of communication, and which “old-fashioned” mediums and display practices are still worth keeping? In an age of cultural diversity, how do literary exhibitions help create new kinds of cultural identity? How can they and how can literature help develop democracy today? Can established author museums learn from other biographical museums, art museums and other cultural history museums, and from their ways of making exhibitions in general? Can author museums challenge what is seen as part of an author's work and what is kept as part of their legacy and of cultural heritage?
The conference will bring together theoretical and hands-on expertise on literature, history, museums and tourism. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, virtual talks or other formats.
❧ Please send abstracts (ca. 200 words) to Ulrike Spring ([log in to unmask]) by 20 April 2018.
❧ For full call for papers and information about venue and registration see https://traum.hisf.no/index.php/conference-2018/.
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