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*With apologies for cross posting*
The Centre for Archive and Information Studies is pleased to announce its next conference on the theme of ‘Memory, Identity and Trust’. The Call for Papers is below and we welcome proposals by Friday 15 December.
Memory, Identity and Trust
School of Humanities, University of Dundee
25-27 April 2018, Dundee
Call for Papers
The conference will be preceded, on the evening of 24 April, by the inaugural lecture of the Centre
for Scottish Culture, School of Humanities, in collaboration with History Scotland
www.historyscotland.com. Professor Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow and Professor Chris
Whatley, University of Dundee, will discuss opposing aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Jacobite rebellion and how it has been remembered.
The Lecture will be followed by a wine reception.
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There will be a special screening of ‘The Destruction of Memory’ http://destructionofmemoryfilm.com/. This presentation
of the acclaimed film about cultural destruction during conflict is supported by the Centre for Scottish Culture and the Centre for Global History at the University of Dundee and will be followed by a panel discussion.
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The Centre for Archive & Information Studies (CAIS), in association with the Centre for Scottish Culture and the Centre for Comic Studies, invites proposals for the fifth multi-disciplinary
international conference, Memory, Identity and Trust.
The conference is part of the CAIS Investigating the Archive: Memory & Identity programme and will be held over three days on 25-27 April 2018. The Organising Committee welcomes proposals for
papers and panels (3 speakers - 20 minute papers) dealing with aspect of the conference theme, Memory, Identity and Trust. Areas of particular interest are:
Proposals should be emailed to Dr. Patricia Whatley ([log in to unmask])
and Caroline Brown ([log in to unmask]) no later than Friday 15 December, 2017.
A small number of student bursaries to contribute to travel and accommodation costs will be available.
All proposals must contain:
a) Title of paper or panel. Panel proposals should contain titles for each paper within the panel
b) Name of speaker(s)
c) Affiliation of speaker(s) [as it will appear on delegate badge]
d) Address(es) of speakers(s)
e) E-mail address(es) of speaker(s)
g) Abstract for each paper proposed (max 300 words per paper)
h) Short biography containing employment (if appropriate), research interests, publications (max 200 words)
i) Audio-visual equipment required
All abstracts should be submitted in English. All submissions will be reviewed by the Conference Committee and those which are accepted will be notified within three weeks of the submission date.
This conference will be relevant to theorists, archivists, philosophers, historians, literary critics and other discipline specific scholars, postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers, with the aim
of encouraging debate and developing a critical understanding of these issues. In particular, we see the Investigating the Archive project as breaking down barriers between academic disciplines and challenging the insularity that sometimes characterises those
working with archives.
All speakers are required to register for the conference. Please note, the conference organisers cannot support travel and accommodation costs.
Investigating the Archive: Memory & Identity project
The 'Investigating the Archive' project, initially funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, has, since 2008, held five international conferences on the overarching themes of Memory & Identity. The events
have been inter- and cross-disciplinary in nature and have been enhanced by different methodological outlooks on the archive, demonstrating the benefits of scholars and practitioners working together in a productive dialogue or tension.
Previous conferences:
2008 The Philosophy of the Archive
2010 Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm
2012 Democratising or Privileging: the future of access to archives
2014 Memories, Communities and Identities
2016 Activation and Impact (in collaboration with the Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Research (FARMER)
The School of Humanities, University of Dundee:
www.dundee.ac.uk/humanities/
The Centre for Archive & Information Studies:
www.dundee.ac.uk/cais
Centre for Scottish Culture:
https://dundeescottishculture.org/
Scottish Centre for Comic studies:
https://scottishcomicstudies.com/
Centre for Global History:
https://globalhistory.org.uk/
Accommodation and travel:
A limited number of rooms will be available at the Apex Hotel for conference delegates at the conference rate. Early booking is advised. The Apex Hotel is close to the new V&A Museum of Design Dundee
https://www.vandadundee.org/building-vanda-dundee which will open during 2018. In addition, a wide range of accommodation is available in Dundee close to the Apex Hotel. More information will be
available on the conference web site when registration opens in December.
Dundee is on the main east coast rail line from London. Regular tram and bus links from Edinburgh Airport to Edinburgh Waverley and Haymarket stations link to Dundee. Direct daily flights between Dundee and
London Stansted are also available.
Dr Patricia Whatley
Senior Lecturer in History and Archival Studies
Director, Centre for Archive & Information Studies
School of Humanities
University of Dundee
Tower Building, Nethergate
Dundee DD1 4HN
m: +44 (0) 7841 368799
t: +44 (0) 1382 385587
tw: @patwh