Dear Colleagues,
An invitation and friendly reminder to propose a paper for the POEM Opening Conference "Participatory Memory Practices: Connectivities, Empowerment, and Recognition of Cultural Heritages in Mediatized Memory Ecologies" at the Museum der Arbeit in Hamburg 13-14 December 2018. The call for papers will close 15th September 2018: https://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de/en/opening-conference.html
The conference addresses a multidisciplinary and international group of scholars and experts from memory institutions, civil society, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, the coding community, and creative industries.
To submit a proposal, please send a title, abstract of max. 600 words and a short bio of max. 200 words by 15th September 2018 to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Samantha Lutz
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Call for Papers: https://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de/en/opening-conference.html
Proposal Deadline: 15.09.2018
Diverging forces across European societies - most visible in both the contemporary nationalist movements and Islamist radicalization - place particular relevance on social and cultural inclusion. Culture may cultivate both integrative and disruptive forces; in this light heritage experts, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and other facilitators are seeking to establish inclusive memory politics for envisioning possible futures of how we should remember our past in Europe. The recognition of "difficult" and dissonant traditions and the contestation of public memory in respect to the representation of colonial traditions and immigration, multiculturalism and transnational history, non-Christian religious heritages in European societies, female heritages, or the inclusion of deprived groups are important issues in this debate. Being part of the public memory is crucial for envisioning positive futures, acknowledging people's and groups' history, identity, belonging, and membership. Furthermore, questions of eligibility play an important role in relation to public support or redemption, for partaking in economic outcomes, or in relation to questions on ownership of cultural heritage resources
However, the participatory turn in memory work, essential for a socially inclusive public memory, turns out to be not as easy to implement in practice. Aside from the established memory institutions, people and groups explore Internet platforms for commemoration and sharing personal texts, photos, or videos and collaboratively contribute to an emergence of open access "archives" of everyday life. The diverse platforms, e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc., broadly attract people and groups for contributing cultural materials, articulating their views of history/histories and enfolding personal and group-related memory practices. Even though they are public, these Internet "archives" are beyond the scope of public memory politics and institutions; they are run for economic purposes in private ownership. The accessibility of these "archives" is regulated by business models and remains unclear towards the future. Connecting personal and group-related memory work in the public to participatory memory politics is thus confronted with legal and economic obstacles, ethical issues, as well as with discontinuities and gaps of individual and institutional social practices of memory work. This highlights the changed technical, organizational, and legal modalities of doing participatory memory work for social inclusive memory politics [...].
Samantha Lutz, M.A. | POEM Project Manager
University of Hamburg
Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 | 20146 Hamburg | Germany
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