Subject: CFP: ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY OF EMPIRE AND OF NATION (Ab Imperio)
From: "Igor S.Martynyuk" <[log in to unmask]>
Subj.: Call for papers, Ab Imperio 2004 theme
Editors of "Ab Imperio", an international interdisciplinary
bilingual Russian-English academic quarterly specializing
in theory of nationalism and history of nationalities and empire
in the post-Soviet space,
have a pleasure to announce the journal's annual theme of 2004,
which is
ARCHEOLOGY OF MEMORY OF EMPIRE AND OF NATION:
CONFLICTING VISIONS OF THE IMPERIAL,
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL PAST
As one of the major goals of "Ab Imperio" is to stimulate the field of
nationalism and empire studies in the post Soviet region and to foster
international dialogue between western and post soviet academic
communities, editors of the journal are happy to invite scholars
in the humantites and social sciences worldwide to contribute
to the forthcoming thematical issues of the journal in 2004,
which are:
No. 1/2004 HETEROGENEITY OF IMPERIAL AND NATIONAL MEMORY,
with a focus on the following topics:
* Conflicting and Alternative Images of National Pasts
* Nationalism as a Daily Exercise of Historical Memory
* Constructing the Polyphony of Visions of the Imperial Past:
the Dynasty, State, Church, and Society on the Origins and Unity of the
Russian Empire
* Imperial Palimpsest: Kievan Rus’, Muscovy, the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania in Modern Russian (Re)production of the Past
* The Memory of Imperial Growth and the Memory of Conquest:
Interpretations of Imperial Expansions
* Memory of Loss: Nostalgia as an Imperial Mnemotechnique
* Empire of Violence: The Silencing and Remembering of Troubling Past
* Wars as Imperial and National Mnemo-projects
* Empire of Affirmative Memory: Remembering National and Imperial Past in
the Soviet Union
* Imperial Sites of Memory
* Beyond Empire and Nation: Local Memories and Places of Memory
* Constructing a Region: Regional Memory
* National Memory in the Service of Empire
* Cities in Empire: Whose memory?
* Revolutions as an Amnesia Technique
* Virtual Empires and Nations: Post Modern Techniques in the Service of
the Past.
No. 2/2004 MEMORY REPRESSED, SILENCED AND LOST,
with topics:
* Imperial Memory: Forgetting the Nation
* Conquest of the Past: Imperial Expansion and Its Mnemo-Techniques
* National Memory: Forgetting the Empire
* Civil Wars in Multiethnic Regions: Uneasy Pasts and Heroic Visions
* Remembering the Holocaust in Eastern Europe
* Assimilation as Memory Loss
* Memory in Diaspora and Emigration: Struggling against the Repression
and Loss of the Past
* Revolutionary Ruptures and Memorial Discontinuities
* Memory Divided: Multiethnic Cities and Regions
* National Minorities and Historical Memory: Homogenizing National
Histories
* Memory of the Modern: Forgetting Diversity * The Forgotten Past in
Political Debates During Perestroika
* Soviet-Era Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe.
No. 3/2004 “NATION-BUILDING AS MEMORY BUILDING”,
with topics:
* Memory and National Revivals
* Constructions of National Histories: Practices of Remembrance
* Imperial History as a Common Past: Shared Memory in a Multinational
State
* Nationalizing Memory: Repossession of the Past
* National Heroes and their Representation in the National memory
* Victims of Empire: The Project of Positive National Memory through
Victimization of Empire
* National Memories through Soviet Mnemotechniques: Construction of the
Past in the Post-Soviet Political and Cultural Spaces.
No. 4/2004 RECONCILIATION THROUGH PAST: PAN-EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE,
with topics:
* Soviet Memory: The Friendship of Peoples Project
* Russian-German Historical Encounters
* Russian-Ukrainian Historical Encounters
* Russia and the Baltic States: Memory Divided?
* Russian-Polish Historical Encounters
* National Histories in Today’s Russia: Uneasy Memory
* Western, Central and Southeastern European Projects in Reconciliation
Through History.
For proposals and papers, or other valuable academic contributions,
please contact one of the regional editors of "Ab Imperio" (AI).
The detailed contacting information can be found at: http://abimperio.net
Propositons concerning book reviewing in relation to AI 2004 annual topics
will be gladly considered by AI book review editor.
Visit the journal's web-site: http://abimperio.net,
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On behalf the team of editors of "Ab Imperio",
Igor S.Martynyuk
AI Editor, Reviews and Bibliography
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