This event will be held on *February 11, 2019 *at the Victoria and
Albert Museum, London, UK.
/*Call for participants*/
Borders, their effect and their history, have become a recurring theme
of global politics today; Brexit and the border between Northern Ireland
and the Republic of Ireland, diplomatic negotiations between North and
South Korea and the history of the Berlin wall are examples of stories
that have occupied discourse on the concept of borders. While nations
may be a modern geopolitical category, their physical demarcations have
had significant influence on the formation of memory and identity. Thus,
to what extent are our shared or individual memories shaped or limited
by borders? How do geopolitical boundaries influence a sense of national
identity? What is the legacy of a national ‘border’?
This is a call for participants to engage in a workshop discussing
memory and borders. Its purpose is to encourage cross-disciplinary
discourse on the theme of memory and borders. Students, academics,
designers, artists, philosophers, writers, journalists, filmmakers,
thinkers and creators will come together to foster a conversation
concerning the idea of the ‘border’ as a material or ideological barrier
or impasse and the impact that these borders have on individual and
collective memory. We will discuss ideas around the theme of “Memory and
Borders” through material cultures, in a discursive format that includes
work and research (-in progress) presentations, and round-table
discussions. Abstracts of work, and work in progress can be based on,
but not limited to, the following themes:
• National identity and memory
• Conflict and memory
• Violence and trauma in memory
• Material culture and memory
• Materiality of borders
• Nationalism, fracture, independence, identity and divisions through
objects
• Gerrymandering and democracy
Please send a (maximum) 150-word abstract to [log in to unmask]
by 17:00 on December 15, 2018.
Participants that will be selected to present will be compensated for
travel (from within London).
This event will be made possible with the generous help of the Design
History Society Outreach & Events Grant.
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