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I thought this may be of interest to some of you.
George
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George Ferzoco
Director of Italian Studies
School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester,
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The Future of Memory:
An International Holocaust and Trauma
Studies Conference
Confirmed Plenary Speaker: Professor Cathy Caruth, Emory
University
Organised by:
Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University;
The Institute for Social, Cultural and Policy Research,
University of Salford
Department of French Studies, University of Manchester
10 - 12 November 2005
During the 1980s and 1990s, Holocaust and trauma studies
emerged at the forefront of interdisciplinary academic debate as
scholars sought to articulate and analyse the diverse inscriptions
of traumatic memory in cultural, social, psychic and political life.
As a distinctly interdisciplinary dynamic project, the study of the
Holocaust and trauma more generally has established critical
agendas that focus on the ethical parameters of representing
horrific events; the modes of transmission and lived experience
of traumatic history; the centrality of secondary, proxy or
vicarious witnessing; the generic diversity of survivor testimony;
the material cultures and landscapes of memory; the creative
disorders of memory; the dialectical relationship of remembering
and forgetting; the affective realms of memory and the politics of
melancholy and mourning. In the light of these diverse debates,
the aim of this conference is to reflect critically upon the
memorial legacies and possible memorial futures of Holocaust
and traumatic experience.
The organizers are keen for the conference to address the ways
in which the traumatic memories of the 20th and 21st centuries
and their interdisciplinary conceptualisation will change and exist
beyond their/this time. Key questions might include: which
experiences and events can be remembered and which will be
forgotten? what kinds of memory might be transmitted in the
future? what form will memory take in the near and distant
future? Can memory ever secure a future for the past?
The organisers invite 300-word abstracts on topics broadly
related to the above questions from the fields of Architecture,
Comparative and Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, European
Studies, Film and Media Studies, Geography, History,
Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Visual Arts, Women's and
Gender Studies. Submission deadline for abstracts: 1st March
2005.
Organisers: Rick Crownshaw (Manchester Metropolitan
University), Jane Kilby (University of Salford), Antony Rowland
(University of Salford) and Ursula Tidd (The University of
Manchester).
For further information, please contact Debbie Hughes,
University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK, M5 4WT;
email: [log in to unmask]
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