Schedule

Monday March 26th: "The Uses and Abuses of Gender" (Södertörn Lectures #8)

Time: 14-15.30

Venue: MB 416, Södertörn University. Arranged by the Center for Baltic and East European Studies and Time, Memory and Representation. Link to Södertörn Lectures.

Tuesday march 27th: "The contested relationship between equality and emancipation". Arranged by Tankeverket.

Time: 19-21

Venue: Tankeverket, Södra teatern. Tickets can be purchased at Södra teatern. Link.

For the inaugural seminar of Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies, a newly established international collaborative initiative for graduate education in memory studies, we invite paper proposals from graduate students on the relations between the aesthetics and ethics of memory.

Aesthetics and ethics often intersect in relation to the representation of collective memories, especially those of disturbing events or experiences. While decorum is naturally called for in addressing a traumatic past, it can also be argued, from an ethical standpoint, that traumatic memories must be represented in a compelling and unforgettable manner. Representational strategies thus have to find a balance between being ineffectual and irrelevant and being potentially offensive and provoking.

At the seminar a number of questions following from the main theme will be discussed:

• What are the limits of representation?
• How do certain forms and practices challenge these limits?
• How is this reflected in memory politics?
• Do the limits differ from medium to medium, e.g. from a public monument to a film or a text?
• Are there practices connected to memory that highlight relations between aesthetics and ethics?

We welcome case studies that reflect on the relation between memory and form, and papers that investigate how different media and cultural artifacts approach these aesthetic and ethical questions.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Sharon Macdonald, Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. Professor Macdonald is the author of Difficult Heritage: Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond (Routledge, 2009).

Ann Rigney, Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University. Professor Rigney is the author of The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (Oxford UP, 2012).

Practical Information

Where: Aarhus University, Denmark

When: 20-22 September 2012

Fee: 250 euros, payable upon acceptance of paper

What’s included: Attendance, accommodation in tourist-class hotel in the centre of Aarhus, all meals

What’s not included: Travel

Send: A 300-word abstract of your paper, a description of your graduate research project (one paragraph), and a short CV (max. one page) to memory@au.dk

Deadline for submission of proposals: 15 April 2012

Notification of acceptance: 1 May 2012

Number of places: 24, of which 18 are reserved for the partner institutions

Aarhus is easily accessible from both Billund (BLL) and Aarhus (AAR) airports.

Learn more about Aarhus University at http://www.au.dk/en/.

Link to Mnemonics homepage

Link to Swedish Memory Studies Network at Mnemonics

Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies is a collaborative initiative for graduate education in memory studies between the Danish Network for Cultural Memory Studies; the Swedish Memory Studies Network; and programmes at Ghent University (Belgium); Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany); Goldsmiths, University of London (UK); the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA); and Columbia University (USA, associate partner). The network was launched at a meeting at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts (VLAC) in Brussels on 14 October 2011.

Mnemonics will organize annual seminars around specific themes in memory studies, hosted by each of the partners in turn. The seminars, scheduled in or around the third week of September, will last three intensive days. Graduate students affiliated with the partner institutions and a number of students external to the network will have the opportunity to present and receive feedback on their research projects. Faculty from all of the partner institutions will participate in the discussions, and prominent invited speakers will bring their perspectives to the debates.

The seminars will serve as an interactive forum in which junior and senior memory scholars meet in an informal and convivial setting to discuss each other’s work and to reflect on new developments in the field. They are intended to be exciting and stimulating intellectual events which help students refine their research questions, strengthen the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of their projects, gain further insight into current trends in memory scholarship, and network with their peers and other academics with similar research interests.

The venues and themes for the next few years are the following:

• 2012: Aarhus – Aesthetics and Ethics of Memory
• 2013: Ghent – Memory Unbound: Transcultural, Transgenerational, Transmedial, and Transdisciplinary Dynamics of Memory (tbc)
• 2014: Stockholm
• 2015: London
• 2016: Urbana-Champaign

DEMONTAGE: THE ROLE OF DOCUMENTARY CINEMA IN THE FALL OF THE USSR

A seminar and film screenings dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union

Link to program and booklet

During the 1980s, film became an important medium in the development of critical thought in the Soviet Union, a movement that supported (and was supported by) Gorbachev’s glasnost’, and with time took over the initiative. A critical attitude revealed itself as the strongest in film, where dedication was most determined to use aesthetics means in a variety of artistic research investigating the USSR’s historical, social, and ethnic conflicts, which by that time were already tearing the empire apart.

In 1984, the new openness was signalled when Tengiz Abuladze’s Repentance, a strongly anti-Stalinist film, was recommended by Gorbachev to be shown at an all- Union screening campaign all over the country. In 1986, Juris Podnieks documentary Is It Easy to Be Young? broke all box-office records revealing the existence of a disturbingly contradictory and conflictual youth culture. With further weakening of censorship throughout the late 1980s, more films and documentaries came to contribute to an explosion of critical public discussion. In its attempt to use film in order to upgrade its legitimacy, power lost to the society’s will to openness and reform. In this process, documentaries played a special role, both aesthetically and ideologically.

This project is performed in collaboration with the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents (Krasnogorsk), the State Film Museum (Moscow) and its director, film historian and theorist Naum Kleiman, and the Juris Podnieks film studio (Riga). Previouly, the Krasnogorsk archive and the Moscow Film Museum worked with us in preparation of a film program for the VIII ICCEES World congress in Stockholm in 2010, under the title USSR as a Filmic Assemblage with Soviet documentaries from the 1920s-40s. As a continuation of this discussion about how the USSR was created in documentary film, Demontage seeks to explore how and why it collapsed. We are preparing a program of a dozen films and a roundtable discussion with film scholars, artists, and theorists. In the selection of films for screening, emphasis was made on regional film studios (Riga, Vilnius, Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Alma- Ata/Almaty), all of them outstanding centres of documentary filmmaking. The film program is represented by work of internationally renowned filmmakers (Šarūnas Bartas, Gerz Frank, Vladimir Eisner, Safarbek Saliev, Juris Podnieks, Bako Sadykov, Aleksandr Sokurov; and, as a comparative context, D’Est by Chantal Ackerman).

When?

Seminar and film screenings, 9-10 December;

extra lecture by Naum Kleiman, Director of the Russian Film Museum, 7 December

Where?

9-10 December at Södertörn University, room UB 524

Lecture 7 December at Stockholm University, room E 379

Language: English / lecture on 7 December in Russian

Contact: Irina Sandomirskaja, irina.sandomirskaja@sh.se

Please send an email before 2 December to Irina Sandomirskaja if you want to attend.

EVERYBODY WELCOME!

Release för Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schubacks Att tänka i skisser

Onsdagen den 7 december firar vi Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schubacks nya bok Att tänka i skisser.

Under kvällen samtalar författaren med Cecilia Sjöholm, professor i estetik vid Södertörns högskola, och konstnären Anders Widoff. Dessutom framför violinisten Helena Schuback ett stycke av Luciano Berio.

I sin uppmärksammade bok Lovtal till intet undersökte Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback hermeneutikens oanade möjligheter genom att öppna ett tolkningsrum mellan det egna och det främmande. I Att tänka i skisser vänds istället blicken mot det område som ligger förborgat mellan filosofin och konsten, begreppet och bilden. Genom en rad essäer vidgas utrymmet mellan bildens fiktioner och begreppets abstraktioner och skissen framträder som den reva där tänkandet uppstår på nytt.

Under kvällen finns förstås boken att köpa till ett extra förmånligt pris.

Tid: Onsdagen den 7 december kl 19

Plats: Galleri Index, Kungsbro strand 19, Stockholm

Fri entré

Välkommen!

Länk till Glänta.org

Länk till Galleri Index

Symposium: "Media and Its Messages"

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, December 3-4, 2011, 11-18 Venue: Auditoriet. In English. Free entrance. No registration. Limited number of seats.

In cooperation with Södertörn University, Stockholm. Co-organized by Time, Memory, Representation members Dan Karlholm and Staffan Ericson.

Speakers: Richard Cavell, Beatriz Colomina, Douglas Coupland, Thierry de Duve, Gabriele Guercio, Branden W. Joseph, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer.

Schedule

Saturday 3 December

11:00-11:10 Welcome

11:10-12:00 Thierry de Duve: Duchamp the Messenger of Art Unlimited

12:00-12:50 Gabriele Guercio: Picasso as a Post-Media Artist?

12:50-13:30 Micropanel

13:30-14:10 Lunch

14:10-15:00 Beatriz Colomina: Manifesto Architecture: From ZANG TUMB TUMB to Twitter.

15:00-15:50 Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer: Photography in the age of its digital reproduction

15:50-16:30 Micropanel

16:30-18:00 Bookrelease Another story. Bar.

Sunday 4 December

11:00-11:10 Welcome

11:10-12:00 Richard Cavell: Re-Mediating the Medium

12:00-12:50 Douglas Coupland: New Brains for the Twenty-First Century

12:50-13:30 Coffeebreak

13:30-14:00 Film: Picnic in Space by Marshall McLuhan

14:00-14:50 Branden W. Joseph: Muzak and Biomusic

14:50-16:00 Micropanel and conclusion

Link to Abstracts Biographies 

Link to Moderna museet

Playing on the title of the influential text of Frances Yates, The Art of Memory, (1966), where she traces the use of mnemonic techniques from the classical age to the age of the Enlightenment, the Fifth Annual NSSR Interdisciplinary Memory Conference will focus on discussions around contemporary arts of memory.

With this conference we seek to look at the arts and artifices of memory practices, both as they come to rest in forms, such as museums and memorials, as well as in the enactment of memory practices themselves, such as truth and reconciliation processes. Interdisciplinary in scope, this conference specifically reaches for new ways to conceptualize the arts of memory through the visual, tactile, textual, and synesthetic expressions of the past. In addition, portions of the conference will be dedicated to a reflexive examination of the arts of memory scholarship—the scholarship of arts of memory examined as an art in itself.

We seek paper submissions from across the academic disciplines, as well as from memory practitioners; empirical, theoretical, and methodological papers are all encouraged.

Some of the questions this conference will address include:

How are different memory practices oriented around different senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell?

How are events associated with one set of senses or practices remembered through another set of senses or practices?

How are spaces and material objects, such as sites, documents, photographs, and bodies, transformed through memory practices?

How are different methods of memory disrupted, altered, or remapped over time?

What is the relationship between destruction and creation in memory practices?

What happens when events that seem insignificant as they unfold in the present become imbued with new significance in memory form?

What methods do we use as scholars to conduct research on memory practice? How do we study memory on an individual and a socio-historical scale?

What theoretical perspectives can shed light on methodologies of memory?

Themes the conference will examine include:

Methods of social remembering

Memory and the body

Memory and the senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell

Memory and space/place

Virtual museums, digital archives, and online memory projects

Mapping memory

Evidentiary practices

Memory and visual culture/cultural production

Loss and aging of memories on a social scale

Memory and transformation, confusion, destruction, fragmentation

Synesthetic memory

Theoretical approaches to the analysis of methods of memory

Research methods in memory studies

Please send an email to NSSRMemoryConference@gmail.com by December 15, 2011, with "2012 ABSTRACT" in the subject line that includes the following: an abstract of no longer than 250 words with a tentative paper title and a short bio (max. approx. 200 words) that includes institutional affiliation. Decisions will be made by late January 2012. For more information on the 2012 conference, past conferences, and our other activities, visit www.nssrmemoryconference.com.

Note: This conference is timed to coincide with the celebration of the career of Professor Vera Zolberg on Saturday, March 31, 2012. The two events, while maintaining their own events and agendas, will compliment each other and participants are encouraged to attend both.

Link to Conference homepage

The Academia Europaea is a functioning European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences, composed of individual members. Membership is by invitation.

Invitations are made only after peer group nomination, scrutiny and confirmation as to the scholarship and eminence of the individual in their chosen field. Election is confirmed by the Council of the Academia.

Members are drawn from across the whole European continent, not only western Europe. Members also include European scholars who are resident in other regions of the world. Current membership stands at around 2300. Amongst them are thirty-eight Nobel Laureates, several of whom were elected to the Academia before they received the prize.

Link to Academia Europaea

David Gaunt at histcon.se

Johan Hegardt has together with Dr Anna Källén recived a three year grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Donation) for the project ”Olov Janse - archaeologist and museum expert between Indochina and the Cold War.”

Link to Riksbankens Jubilieumsfond

Johan Hegardt at histcon.se

"Spectral phenomenology - History and the Dead Other in Derrida and Heidegger"

Hans Ruin (STINT Fellow, Amherst College)

Thursday, December 1, 2011, 4:30pm, The Babbott Room, Octagon

"Spectral phenomenology - history and the dead other in Derrida and Heidegger"

Link

Unstable Narratives of the Sovereign Body from the Age of the Enlightenment to World War I

The mid- to late eighteenth century saw transformations in our conception of history, social and political systems, economic modes and cultural forms. In the West as well as in the wider world, developments in civil and commercial society were accompanied by - and propelled – intellectual conceptualisations of the self amongst familiar groups, of the individual within the state, of humans within nature, and of states in relation to one another. At the centre of these multi-fold transformations was the desire to control this change by creating a narrative which explained the past and the present and helped forecast the future. Nascent political and economic theories, budding philosophies of history, new religious forms and fresh social and legal systems were devised with the purpose of narrating progress and change and accounting for continuity in geographical and chronological spaces. The French Revolution and, perhaps more importantly, its aftermath, challenged the optimism of eighteenth-century systems by pointing to their flaws and instabilities. Major social, political and economic systems were created in the nineteenth century, all accompanied by strict philosophical – and often religious - understandings of human history.

Attempting to counteract the instability of what became described as a “metaphysical Enlightenment project", nineteenth-century systems attempted to tie all the loose ends left by the previous century thinkers by creating grand narratives which could compellingly direct individual, group and state action. The new projects offered solutions for revolution and violence, political representation and liberty, social equality and harmony, as they promised peace as the end-result of their systematic endeavours. With the outbreak of World War I, the flaws of nineteenth-century projects became only too clear, and they too became historically dated and their contribution to the sovereign bodies came into question.

This colloquium aims to investigate the creation and development of unstable narratives of social, political, economic and intellectual history from 1740 to 1914. The objective is to examine how individual thinkers or groups of thinkers which can be aligned together conceived of their systems and tried to cater for variations in the course of human history through the creation of stable narratives. Papers are expected to address one or more of the following issues (the list is not exclusive):

• Are these “unstable narratives” primarily concerned with the state? Which other focus did they take? • Who or what constituted a “sovereign body” in specific narratives?

• Are 18th-19th century narratives particularly different from previous attempts to explain human development?

• What role did religion and revelation play in the construction of narratives? To what extent did science add a new dimension to the creation of historical accounts?

• Are there any pivotal moments in the construction of narratives in the time period examined in the colloquium? To what extend did they change or confirm suspicions about the courses of human history?

• Did any of these narratives depend on static dichotomies? • How did the ideas of continuity and discontinuity become conceptualised in the period?

• Did 19th century grand narratives successfully combine all the elements which they wanted to account for in their discourse?

• Are narratives in the wider world substantially different from those in the European context? What are the similarities and differences?

• Is culture often a presence in these narratives? How does it appear in intellectual constructions?

• Did the change in the structure of the state system in the mid to late 19th century impact the development of narratives?

• To what extent was imperialism a corroboration of 18th and 19th century narratives?

• What challenges did World War I pose to the existing social, political and economic systems?

Abstract proposals of 300-word maximum for a 20-minute presentation are welcome, accompanied by a 2-page CV. Advanced PhD students (3rd year onwards) are welcome to propose papers. Paper proposals for wider-world case studies as well as European studies are very welcome. The intention is to publish select papers after the colloquium, so presentations are especially welcome if they are for original, unpublished work.

Informal enquiries and abstracts/CVs can be sent to Dr Isabel DiVanna (id239@cam.ac.uk), Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL.

The deadline for submission of paper proposals is December 1st, 2011.

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Mats Burström will give a talk titled ‘Artifactual Memories in Exile: Family Belongings Hidden in the Ground in Estonia during the Second World War’.

Link to conference homepage.

WALLENBERG ACADEMY FELLOWS represents assured long-term resources for the country’s most promising young researchers in all disciplines. The programme will be the Foundation’s largest initiative ever. The plan is to provide funding of SEK 1.2 billion, over five years, for a total of 125 young researchers.

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Berghahn Journals is pleased announce the relaunch of Contributions to the History of Concepts with the publication of Volume 6, Issue 1. Contributions to the History of Concepts serves as a platform for theoretical and methodological articles as well as empirical studies on the history of concepts and their social, political, and cultural contexts. It aims to promote the dialogue between the history of concepts and other disciplines, such as intellectual history, history of knowledge and science, linguistics, translation studies, history of political thought and discourse analysis.

Volume 6, Issue 1 features a translation by Michaela Richter of the introduction and prefaces to Reinhart Koselleck’s Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe, the first English translation of this important work. Articles address an array of topics in conceptual history, beginning with Nicholay Koposov’s proposal of a semantic theory of collective singulars such as “history” and “state” that came into being during the Enlightenment. Next Jan Ifversen explores the object and the methodology of conceptual history by elaborating on the idea of “key concepts” and proposes studying them according to two different aspects of meaning. Justinas Dementavičius then examines the conceptualization of “state” in twentieth century Lithuanian political thought and it’s reflection in the Lithuanian independence movement during the years 1988-1990. The issue concludes with the Mission Statement of the European Conceptual History Project.

Volume 6, Issue 1

Summer 2011

Editorial Note

pp. v-v(1)

Introduction and Prefaces to the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe

pp. 1-37(37)

Author: Koselleck, Reinhart

Collective Singulars: A Reinterpretation

pp. 39-64(26)

Author: Koposov, Nikolay

About Key Concepts and How to Study Them

pp. 65-88(24)

Author: Ifversen, Jan

Lithuanian Political Thought in the Twentieth Century and its Reflections in Sąjūdis: What Kind of State Have Lithuanians Been Fighting For?

pp. 89-110(22)

Authors: Dementavičius, Justinas

The European Conceptual History Project (ECHP): Mission Statement

pp. 111-116(6)

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This conference aims to take a transnational and comparative perspective on the conflicts that national museums have dealt with as holders of contested objects and as places where disputed or difficult pasts are displayed.

Objects of contested possession

How have European discourses of ownership developed in national museums over the last century in relation to the possession of artefacts that are subject to restitution claims? Cases of contested objects in Europe can be related to contexts of colonial appropriations of material culture and post-colonial claims, to processes of secularisation of church property, to situations of war and plunder, to archaeological finds in territories where national frontiers have changed or are disputed. From a methodological point of view case studies will be privileged that go beyond legal aspects to examine the historical significance of using objects from the past as expressions of national identity.

Difficult pasts

What role do national museums play in handling historical issues that are socially and politically sensitive and liable to give rise to contestation? Particular attention will be given to individual or comparative cases related to the construction of national territories and to conflicting representations of “natural” and ethnic communities, which have become the subject of specific revisions in light of political and intellectual developments.

Furthermore, national museums are increasingly being called upon to provide forums for dealing with highly sensitive issues of traumatic past events – particularly those related to situations of political criminality. In light of the increasing importance of memory studies, this conference will examine how museums attempt to represent the “unspeakable” elements of the past.

Please send proposals of no more than 500 words, for 20 minute presentations to eunamus@gmail.com or Felicity.Bodenstein@univ-Paris1.fr by 14 November.

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Culture and its institutions have been casted as key forces for integration and social cohesion in old nation-states as well as in more recent political entities such as the European Union. One of Europe’s most enduring institutions is the museum and today there is an increased interest among social elites as well as citizens to create new museums, especially history museums. At the same time existing museums struggle with how to approach contemporary cultural diversity, claims for restitutions, and economic restraints.

This event brings together researchers, museum professionals and policy makers to discuss findings from two research areas in the project EuNaMus – European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen. The aim is to discuss the challenges and negotiations in terms of collections, communities and citizenship that arise when polities create new museums. All over Europe, the making of new history museums brings to the fore questions as to which stories and which objects should be put on display, for what audiences and with what results and future possibilities.

13.00-13.30: Opening: Professor Michel Draguet, General Director a.i. of the Royal Museums of Art and History

13.30-15.00 Launch of EuNaMus 1st Policy Brief: The museum as a cultural constitution, great narratives and conflicts in museum spaces

Professor Peter Aronsson and Dr. Gabriella Elgenius present key findings: Mapping and framing institutions 1750-2010: national museums interacting with nation-making

Professor Dominique Poulot presents key findings: Uses of the Past: narrating the nation and negotiating conflicts

Launch of EuNaMus’ wiki on heritage wars

Comments from invited stakeholders

Refreshments

 15.30-17.30: Panel: Entering the mine-fields – the creation of new history museums in Europe

In recent decades, new museums of national history have been initiated in several European nation-states and even on a European level. Usually these initiatives are surrounded by populist debates of the pros and cons of using public funding for such large scale cultural projects or objections from intellectuals to the ideological nature of the projects. This panel brings together representatives from four initiatives to discuss how they handle the debates in the course of the projects as they develop and how they balance political and intellectual concerns.

Participants: Dr. Taja Vovk-van Gaal, Academic Project Leader, House of European History (European Parliament, Brussels); Professor Dr. Rosmarie Beier-de Haan, Head of Collection and Curator, Deutsches Historisches Museum (Berlin); Dr. Robert Kostro, Director of the National Museum for Polish History (Warsaw); Dr. Charles Personnaz, Director of the Maison de l'Histoire de France (Paris).

Moderator: Dr. Chantal Kesteloot, Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Brussels)

17.30-18.00: Summary discussion:

the integrative forces of conflicts and sharing

Please announce your attendance to contact@eunamus.eu no later than 15 January 2012

The event is organised by EuNaMus and the House of European History.

Launched in 2007 by Dr. H.-G. Pöttering, then President of the European Parliament, the House of European History will host a modern exhibition and centre of resources on European history, offering permanent, temporary and travelling exhibitions, a collection of objects related to Europe, publications, a variety of different events and educational programmes for a large audience. The House will present different viewpoints on and interpretations of history and will be a forum for reflection and debate.

EuNaMus explores the creation and power of the heritage created and presented by European national museums to the world, Europe and its states, as an unsurpassable institution in contemporary society. National museums are defined and explored as processes of institutionalized negotiations where material collections and displays make claims and are recognized as articulating and representing national values and realities. Questions asked in the project are why, by whom, when, with what material, with what result and future possibilities are this museums shaped.

This Open Access publication gives a comparative overview of the historical roles of national museums in state-making processes. It has been created to stimulate discussion and debate among academics, policy-makers, museum professionals and citizens. The individual author is responsible for the content of each report and if you have any comments please do not hesitate to contact the author who would welcome these. Further publications from EuNaMus are in process. Please consult http://www.eunamus.eufor updated information.

Link to online publication

Time, Memory, Representation members Staffan Ericson, Victoria Fareld, Dan Karlholm and Irina Sandomirskaja will lead a panel entitled "Time, Memory, Representation" at the Comparative Humanities conference, October 27-28 2011.

Comparative Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Conference:

Stockholm University / Södertörn University, 27-28 October 2011

Organisers

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University

Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University

Anna-Pya Sjödin, Södertörn University

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Barbara Cassin, CNRS, Paris

On translation as paradigm: in praise of a consistent relativism

Andre Gingrich, University of Vienna

A new pluralism in comparative methods and their relevance for critical research today

Naoki Sakai, Cornell University

The locale of comparison and the microphysics of power

Link

December 9, 9–18.

We are pleased to announce that “TECHNOLOGIES OF MEMORY”, the

inaugural conference of the research project _The Archive in Motion_

(AiM), will be held at the National Library of Norway on FRIDAY 9

DECEMBER, 9:00–18:00. The conference will include lectures by invited

scholars as well as members of the project group: WENDY HUI KYONG CHUN,

JUSSI PARIKKA, WOLFGANG ERNST, TROND LUNDEMO, YNGVIL BEYER AND INA BLOM.

Full details on program and registration will be posted shortly on our

web site here

Technologies of Memory

Society is memory, Émile Durkheim stated. And in his groundbreaking

work, _Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire_ (1925), Maurice Halbwachs

described social memory as enacted through ritual, language, art,

architecture and institutions. What characterized these instances of

shared memory was persistence over time – a stability and capacity for

storage that was contrasted with the fleeting character of individual

memory. However, today’s new time technologies make us question not

just the classic description of social memory, but the social ontology

that it presupposes. In the age of digital computing, interconnection

through real time flows give unprecedented priority to the present and

the future, and the distinction between internalized and externalized

memory functions have been challenged from a number of different

perspectives. For the inaugural conference of _The Archive in Motion_

project, we take a look at the new technologies of memory and the

questions of social life that they open onto.

The Archive in Motion

The three-year research project (2011-2013) is a collaboration between

the National Library of Norway, IFIKK – Department of Philosophy,

Classics, and History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, IMK

– Department of Media Studies at the University of Oslo, and

Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University.

Contact

Ellef Prestsæter

Conference coordinator

ellef.prestsater@ifikk.uio.no

+47 99 27 84 11

"Rethinking Time: Essays on History, Memory and Representation" is the first joint publication, with contributions from all members of the Time, Memory, Representation program.

Order from:

publications@sh.se

Södertörn University, University Library, S-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden

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Great historical narratives in Europe’s national museums

25-26 November 2011

Deadline: call for papers September 23, 2011.

Paris, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (to be confirmed)

Conference organised by Pr. Dominique Poulot, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in collaboration with Eunamus – European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen.

To what extent can national museums be considered as authors of great historical narratives? National museums have since their inception been key to establishing narratives of the political, military, territorial, social and economic construction of the nation. In disciplinary terms, the archaeological museum is central to forging national origins in a more or less far off past. The nation’s genius, may be read in the different narratives that art history constructs, whilst folk and rural culture, as considered by ethnology construct notions of authenticity of the people.

This conference aims to consider the major ideological programmes implemented by museums and how these are visualized and translated into museographical terms – from explicative texts to the disposition of objects, scenographic installations, multimedia presentations etc. Can one identify a « national tale » (roman national), as the idea of a stereotypical version of the nation’s past, in the ambiguous relationship between narrative and the complex and not necessarily coherent range of objects that can make up a museum’s collections. Looking at traditional as well as revised versions of national narratives, particular attention will be given to the representation of conflict, to shared and opposing tales – but also to silences and absence. Issues of provenance related to repatriation claims may also be considered.

Why are certain themes and types of collections preponderant at different moments throughout the nation’s history? The interdependence of narratives, in relation to past versions or to those established by other nations should also be stressed. In order to address these questions, approaches that take into account the social, political, religious and cultural issues that subtend the elaboration of national scenarios will be privileged.

Please send proposals of no more than 500 words, for 20 min presentations to eunamus3@gmail.com, or Felicity.Bodenstein@univ-paris1.fr by the 23rd of September.

Link to conference homepage

"From Censorship to Control: 100 years of Statens biografbyrå and the future of censorship"

The Conference is organized by the Department of Cinema Studies, Stockholm University in association with the Modern Museum, Stockholm.

Link to program

Contact:

Trond Lundemo

Department of Cinema Studies

Stockholm University

Box 27062, 102 51 Stockholm

Phone: +46 8 674 76 20

Fax: +46 8 665 11 23

E-mail: lundemo@mail.film.su.se

The full program is available at:link

The following day, September 15th, Mats Burström will give a lecture, “Artefactual Memories. Family Belongings Hidden in the Ground in Estonia during World War II”, at the University of Tartu.

"History - the past transformed into words or paint or dance or play - is always a performance" (Greg Dening, "Performing on the Beaches of the Mind: An Essay").

In the context of Paul Ricoeur's work on the conjunctions of history, memory, and the production of narrative (La Mémoire, l'histoire, l'oubli, 2000), and heeding the invitation of Hayden White (and others) to re-think traditional understandings of historical writing and interpretation, historians such as Greg Dening have argued that historical representation, in whatever form it takes, is a performative act. At the same time, theatre scholars such as Freddie Rokem have explored the relationship between theatrical energies and performing history on stage. At the intersection of such work is the idea that theatre itself becomes a witness to history being made, a notion present in the concept of memory and the processes of remembering and forgetting. This international, interdisciplinary conference explores themes relating to history, memory and performance. We hope it will generate discussions about how historical meaning is created in the theatre and how theatrical performances shape our understanding of the past, including:

Museums, museality, and performance

Staging historical events and cataclysms

Theatre of (auto)biography and testimony

History plays, history, and historiography

Original practices, heritage, and innovation

The canon, the archive, and the repertoire

The body and space as sites of memory

History, new media, and performance

(Post)memory and (post)trauma

Memory theatre and resonant spaces

Theatre as / and memorial

Storytelling, memory, and performance

This three-day conference will feature keynote speakers including Professor Freddie Rokem (Tel-Aviv University), plenary paper sessions, working groups (theory-based), workshops (practice-based), and performance events.

To register, please select one of the following options and complete the attached registration form.

1. Papers: Please submit a 300-word abstract for a 20-minute paper relating to one or more conference themes. Graduate students are encouraged to self-identify in order to be considered for one of the student-curated paper sessions.

2. Working groups (theory-based): Please submit a short (200 words or less) description of your research topic and its connection to the working group that you have selected. Participation in a working group will involve assigned reading and e-mail discussion prior the meeting of the conference. During the conference, the group will meet for a three-hour conversation arising from this preparation. Graduate students are welcome. Please indicate your first and second choices among the following:

· Museums, objects and performance (in English)

· Memory, autobiography, and testimony (in English)

· Original performance practices and innovation (in English)

· Representing history's villains (in French)

· Staging the historical Other (in French)

· Archives and theatre historiography (in French)

· Québécois theatre, yesterday and today (in French)

3. Workshops (practice-based): Please submit a short (200 words or less) description of your current theatre project or research topic and its connection to the workshop that you have selected. The workshops are open to performers and non-performers alike, and graduate students are welcome. Participation in a workshop might involve some prior preparation (for example, memorizing a short script or watching video footage) and a three-hour activity during the conference. Please, indicate your first and second choices among the following:

· Body as memory (Bilingual)

· Old stories, new media (in English)

· Storytelling (in English)

· Space as history and memory (in French)

· Assaulting the canon (in French)

DEADLINE FOR ALL ABSTRACTS AND INQUIRIES IS OCTOBER 1, 2011

All applicants will be notified of the selection committee's decision by November 1, 2011. Delegates planning to participate in working groups and workshops will be expected to register for the conference by November 15, 2011.

The registration fee of 80$ (40$ for students and theatre practitioners) includes the opening reception, closing cocktail, and daily lunches and breaks. The optional conference dinner is $50, including a three-course meal and wine.

For more information, please contact the organizing committee at hmp.hmr@uottawa.ca.

Please save the dates, plan to join us, and share this announcement with your colleagues and contacts.

Organizing committee:

Joël Beddows (jbeddows@uOttawa.ca)

David Dean (david_dean@carleton.ca)

Louise Frappier (lfrappi2@uOttawa.ca)

Yana Meerzon (ymeerzon@uOttawa.ca)

Kathryn Prince (kprince@uOttawa.ca)

Comparative Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Conference at Stockholm University / Södertörn University, 27-28 October 2011

Practical info Full Programme Participants

Organisers

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Södertörn University

Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University

Anna-Pya Sjödin, Södertörn University

Participants and titles

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Barbara Cassin, CNRS, Paris

On translation as paradigm: in praise of a consistent relativism

Andre Gingrich, University of Vienna

A new pluralism in comparative methods and their relevance for critical research today

Naoki Sakai, Cornell University

The locale of comparison and the microphysics of power

CONFERENCE DELEGATES (in alphabetical order)

Cecilia Alvstad, Stockholm University

Translating voice: voice as a travelling concept in the humanities

Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Uppsala University

Social science and social policy, India, Europe, and the empire, 20th century

David Attwell, University of York

Stilted conversations: postcolonial mimesis and postcolonial theory

Gunnel Cederlöf, Uppsala University

International mercantile commerce, law and nature; Bengal, Burma, Yunnan: reframing regions, early 19th century

Bret W. Davis, Loyola University Maryland

The unavoidable dilemma of (comparative) philosophy:

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toward a middle path with the Kyoto School

Bo G. Ekelund, Stockholm University

The production of ambivalent space in anglophone Caribbean fiction

Staffan Ericsson, Södertörn University

Why compare media?

Victoria Fareld, University of Gothenburg

History compared

Heather Goodall, University of Technology, Sydney

Intercolonial interactions: comparative strategies for understanding decolonisation in Australia, India and Indonesia in the eastern Indian Ocean

Paulo Lemos Horta, NYU Abu Dhabi

(title to be announced)

Dan Karlholm, Södertörn University

Levels of comparability: art history as a comparative discipline

Christina Kullberg, Uppsala University

Caribbean ethnographic poetics

Joseph Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross

In search of the strangely familiar

Maria Olaussen, Linnaeus University

Finding the future in the archive: South African expressions of slave memory

Martin Owens

Interpreting Śamkara: creativity and scepticism in comparative philosophy

Mahesh Rangarajan, Delhi University and NMML

(title to be announced)

Sharon Rider, Uppsala University

Comparison, crisis and critique

Irina Sandomirskaja, Södertörn University

Comparativity: illuminating or imperialising

Madhucchanda Sen, Department of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati University

Kolkata

The Self and the Other and the Inner and the Outer: dissolving binaries

Sverker Sörlin, KTH, Stockholm

Literature for global change

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University

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Cultural intimacy and global dominance: the troubles of finding new grounds for comparison in literature studies

Hubert Timmermanns, Maastricht University

Karl-Otto Apel and his “Transformation der Philosophie”: why comparative philosophy is intercultural communication

Jason Wirth, Seattle University

What is comparative philosophy?

Why is there no Happiness in the East? The Making of European Gender Studies

A conference at the Department of Gender Studies and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies,

Södertörn University, Stockholm, 8-10 September, 2011

Thursday September 8th: Bio Rio Hornstulls Strand 3 (6 pm)

Friday September 9th: Södertörn University, Room MB 503 (8.30 am)

Saturday September 10th: Södertörn University, Room ME 552 (9 am)

Link to Conference Program

Link to Conference Homepage

More than two decades after the dismantling of the Iron Curtain the space referred to as the Second World is carved in a cartography of absences. As political entities the countries are usually classified in terms of the past or the future: post-socialist or transition democracies. As Eastern Europe the site represents the ´second Other` of Europe, lesser European, contaminated by an open border towards Asia. The boundary-work within the West-East topography involves a variety of narratives and processes of mirroring. The Eastern frontier refers simultaneously to images of threat and inferiority. The Eastern subaltern position alternates between self-othering and hypostatization as the "better Europe".

From a global perspective the territory is added to the Global North where it in turn is positioned as a semi-periphery. The other part of Europe is thereby caught in a paradoxical condition of being different, but when compared to the core "not different enough", while in relation to the periphery - "not similar enough". In addition: The area brings in turmoil the boundary between colonizers and colonized. The Second World comprised states of both kinds. In other words: the location of Central and Eastern Europe seems difficult to conceive.

The feminist perspective offers an own West-East map of paradoxes. In the 1970s when (West)European feminist studies formulated their analytical concepts in analogy to the Marxist-materialist tradition, the West-East distinction was quite undetermined. Women in state-socialism were in some respects considered as more emancipated than their sisters in capitalist patriarchy. West European feminists were more critical towards the liberal than the socialist tradition. Alexandra Kollontai and Simone de Beauvoir were rediscovered as feminist classics alike.

The situation changed profoundly with the fall of the Berlin Wall, which coincided with the "cultural turn" in feminist theorizing. The opening of the borders reorganized the political and epistemic topography and turned the post-socialist space into a feminist frontier. The transnational moment of 1989 generated asymmetrical relations that seem difficult to undo. It is a deep historical irony that the cleavage was set at the very moment when feminist theory purged itself from master categories and radicalized its epistemology towards the relationality of gender and the situatedness of knowledge.

For two decades there has been an ongoing West-East debate in feminist studies carried out in telling terminological nuances. Scholars situated in the West emphasize refer to traveling ideas and opt for transculturation. Scholars rooted in the East prefer a harder parlance about imposed ideas and mimicry, stressing the hierarchy between Western producers and Eastern transmitters or users of gender knowledge. The unequal relationship replicates a pattern that resembles the familiar male-female order between the theoretical and the empirical: the West figures as the generalizable, the East as the concrete Other. This generates what critics call an "epistemic void". It constantly produces absences, lacks and deficits rather then enables to see and name what IS. The aim of the conference is to make the absent present.

Feminist scholarship has constantly struggled to move beyond dichotomies. To acknowledge differences without reifying them remains a challenging task. Feminists have learned that the strategy to let women and other Others articulate their different experiences is not a very promising path, it reinforces dichotomies rather than dismantles them. The focus of the conference lies on concepts and their in/adequacy to analyze gender relations in the European space that appears as the second Other. Its ambition is to disrupt hegemonic feminist theorizing. Power works through oblivion - oblivion naturalizes what becomes excluded and marginalized. A precondition of disobedience is then to constantly reconstruct what has been silenced and/or forgotten - memory work as foundation for a disobedient feminist knowledge production.

The conference panels are organized around the following concepts:

1. "Conceiving Bodies"

2. "Citizenship and the Others"

3. "Masculinity and Nationhood"

4. "Experiences and Subaltern Voices"

5. "Queer Sexualities"

6. "Intersectionality and Social Politics"

Confirmed keynote speakers

Agnieszka Graff, Warsaw University, Poland

Gail Lewis, Open University, UK

Research Committee

Teresa Kulawik, Professor of Gender Studies, Södertörn University

Yulia Gradskova, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University

Renata Ingbrant, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stockholm University

For more information, contact the co-ordinator:

Renata Ingbrant renata.ingbrant@sh.se

About Keynotes:

Agnieszka Graff is lecturer in American Studies and Gender Studies at Warsaw University, a graduate of Amherst College (Massechusetts, US), Oxford University and School of Social Sciences at Polish Academy of Sciences. She completed her PhD in English literature in 1999. Graff is also a translator, journalist, commentator, feminist and women's and human rights activist; In 2001 she published World without women, a book that was hugely debated in Poland. She is a co-founder of women's organisation Porozumienie Kobiet 8 Marca (8 March Women's Coalition), with which she organises the annual Manifa (Warsaw women's march). Graff is a member of the Precedent Cases Programme's Programme Board at the International Helsinki Federation For Human Rights.

Gail Lewis is Reader in Identities and Psychological Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University, and a former Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Co-editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies. She has researched the making of gendered and racialised subject positions in welfare discourses and practices. The author of 'Race', Gender, Social Welfare: Encounters in a postcolonial society (2000). Her current preoccupations focus on the intersecting psychic, social and cultural processes through which subjectivity is constituted, in relation to racialised and gendered experience.

TERRY SMITH is Andrew W Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Terry Smith: ”Contemporary Art: World Currents”

September 8, 15-17, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Terry Smith, seminar: ”Defining Contemporaneity: Imagining Planetarity”

September 9, 13-16, Primus, PC249, Södertörn University, Stockholm

For more information, see: Terry Smith's Homepage

CALL FOR PAPERS

Arkitekturfilosofisk konferens vid Åbo Akademi, 22-24 november 2011

Plats, Minne, Tidsdjup

Vad innebär det att förstå platser, inte bara som rumsliga företeelser utan som tidsligt formade entiteter? Hur kan en medvetenhet om det historiska tidsdjupet prägla erfarenheten av en stad eller ett enskilt byggnadsverk? Hur kommer tidsdjupet in när det gäller att se hur platsen samspelar med sin geografiska och kulturella omgivning? Vad innebär det att med hjälp av bilder åskådliggöra det historiska tidsdjupet? Och vad riskerar att gå förlorat om medvetenheten om detta tidsdjup förytligas eller försvinner?

Filosofiämnet vid Åbo Akademi anordnar den 22-24 november 2011 en svenskspråkig konferens kring dessa frågor, ”Plats, Minne, Tidsdjup”. Konferensen äger rum i anslutning till en stor arkitekturhistorisk utställning i Akademibyggnaden Arkens aula, anordnad under ledning av professor emeritus i arkitekturhistoria vid Tammerfors tekniska universitet, Tore Tallqvist.

Skicka in abstract

En väsentlig del av konferensen kommer att utgöras av workshop-sessioner, där forskare ger halvtimmeslånga presentationer som berör konferensens tema. Forskare från finska och svenska universitet inbjuds därför att senast den 25 augusti skicka in abstracts på 250-300 ord till Martin Gustafsson (martgust@abo.fi). Besked om vilka abstracts som accepterats skickas ut senast den 15 september. Observera att samtliga presentationer ska göras på svenska.

Huvudföreläsare

Erik Adlercreutz, arkitekt, A-konsultit, Helsingfors

Lars Berggren, professor i konstvetenskap, Åbo Akademi

Pauline von Bonsdorff, professor i estetik, Jyväskylä universitet

Ola Keijer, arkitekt, Svensk Standard, Stockholm

Lars Mikael Raattamaa, arkitekt och författare, Stockholm

Åsa Ringbom, docent i konstvetenskap, Åbo Akademi

Ullica Segerstråle, professor i sociologi, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Tore Tallqvist, professor emeritus i arkitekturhistoria, Tammerfors tekniska universitet

Sven-Olov Wallenstein, högskolelektor i filosofi, Södertörns högskola

Konferensen organiseras av Martin Gustafsson, Sonja Vanto, Ylva Gustafsson och Yrsa Neuman från Åbo Akademi, samt Tore Tallqvist från Tammerfors Tekniska Universitet. Den finansieras av Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi och svenska Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. För information, kontakta Martin Gustafsson (martgust@abo.fi).

Arne Melberg, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oslo, mentions Time, Memory, Representation in two articles on time and memory in Svenska Dagbladet, July 6-7 2011.

Link to article I: "Insikten om nuets före och efter"

Link to article II: "Fiktionen nödvändig för minnesarbetet"

CONFLICT IN MEMORY: INTERPERSONAL AND INTERGENERATIONAL REMEMBERING OF WAR, CONFLICT AND TRANSITION

An interdisciplinary conference

10 - 12 May 2012, Aarhus University, Denmark

War, conflicts and transitions have always played a significant role in

defining communal identity, often with reference to events that happened

centuries ago. The role of passing on collective memories of these types

of events has become even more complex in a globalizing world, where new

configurations of cosmopolitan memories challenge more locally and

nationally based memories. The many aspects of societies' remembering

and forgetting call for interdisciplinary cooperation. This conference

brings together the fields of history, psychology, literature, and

cultural studies and presents new research on how memories of war,

conflict and transition are passed on from generation to generation and

how these processes transform and shape identities.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Balthazar Garzon (investigative judge, Madrid)

Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Melbourne)

Andreas Huyssen (Columbia University)

James Wertsch (Washington University, St. Louis)

Dorthe Berntsen (Aarhus University)

Daniel Levy (Stony Brook University)

Anna Bull (University of Bath)

Luisa Passserini (University of Torino)

Tom Dunne (University College Cork)

Willliam Hirst (New School of Social Sciences, New York)

_WORKSHOP THEMES:_

- Negotiating National and Cosmopolitan Memories

- Psychological Approaches to Interpersonal and Intergenerational

Remembering

- Narrative Templates in Representations of Conflict and Civil Warfare

- Memory, Identity and Social Cohesion: Commemoration and

Intergenerational Memory of War, Conflict and

PURPOSES AND IDEAS OF THE WORKSHOPS:

NEGOTIATING NATIONAL AND COSMOPOLITAN MEMORIES

_Organised by Stefan Iversen and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen _(contact: Mads

Rosendahl Thomsen litmrt@hum.au.dk [1])

This section explores how cosmopolitanism has become an important topic

in the study of identity formation and the changes of memories in an

increasingly globalized world. The keynotes will address the Holocaust

as a transnational object of memory that has had a profound influence on

memory politics in terms of lawmaking, commemorative gestures and in

educating new generations. The section consists of the following three

sessions:

* Transformed places

* Politics of memory

* Clashing memories

PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO INTERPERSONAL AND INTERGENERATIONAL

REMEMBERING

_Organised by Annette Bohn, Celia Harris, and Jonathan Koppel _(contact:

Annette Bohn - anetboh@psy.au.dk [2])

This workshop will cover a broad range of topics concerned with social

and cultural issues in memory, from collaborative memories in couples to

national survey studies on memories for important public events,_ _to

the way that memories of traumatic events (personal and public) inform,

and are informed by, one's personal and social identity. The workshop

will be organised in three sessions addressing the following topics:

* Collective remembering and forgetting in small groups

* Memories of transitions: important personal and national events

* Trauma, identity and memory

NARRATIVE TEMPLATES IN REPRESENTATIONS OF CONFLICT AND CIVIL WARFARE

_Organised by Hans Lauge Hansen, Francesco Caviglia, Leonardo Cecchini

_(contact: Leonardo Cecchini - leonardo.c@hum.au.dk [3])

This workshop explores the role of narrative discourse in the

intergenerational memory processes of conflict and civil warfare. The

concept of narrative discourse is to be understood in its broadest sense

as fictional and non-fictional representations and all the hybrid genres

in between, based on linguistic, visual and corporal/physical

expressions. "Conflict and civil warfare" refers to a broad range of

historical events which affected individuals and groups within the same

national community, like the Nazi suppression of the German opposition

in the thirties, the Spanish Civil, War, Stalinism in USSR, political

violence in the '60s and '70s, etc. What kind of social processes are

required to convert communicative memory into cultural memory, what is

the role of narrative in these processes, which are the generic

templates employed and what is the social impact of these

representations?

MEMORY, IDENTITY AND SOCIAL COHESION: COMMEMORATION AND

INTERGENERATIONAL MEMORY OF WAR, CONFLICT AND CRISIS

_Organised by Michael Böss _(contact: Michael Böss - engmb@hum.au.dk

[4])

In _Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity (_1994), the

American historian John Gillis suggested a typology of commemorations

based on three periods: a pre-national, a national and a post-national

period. During the pre-national period, commemorations were either local

or universal, and the elites and the masses tended not to share

commemorative rites. The subsequent 'national' cult of commemoration

served to unite people within territorial nation-states. This implied a

degree of democratisation of official commemorative events and

monuments. In the third period, there would not be a total demise, but a

weakening of national commemoration. Gillis also predicted that we might

be returning to the medieval pattern: Commemorations would become more

local and more universal ('global'). He also believed, however, that in

order for societies to cohere, there would be a need for public

commemoration. Without the identifications that commemorations help

create, citizens would find it difficult to interact and cooperate. -

This workshops invites papers that address both empirical cases and

theoretical cases these issues with special reference to commemorations

and memories of war, conflict and crisis.

ORGANISER: Prof Michael Böss, Director of MatchPoints Seminar -

engmb@hum.au.dk [5]

ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Annette Bohn, Hans Lauge Hansen, Francesco

Caviglia, Leonardo Cecchini, Stefan Iversen and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

DEADLINES FOR PROPOSALS: January 15, 2012

CONFERENCE FEE: 150 EUR

For FURTHER INFORMATION, see

CONFERENCE VENUE: Aarhus University, Søauditorierne, Bartholins Allé

3, 8000 Aarhus.

_ABOUT MATCHPOINTS SEMINAR:_

_The purpose of a MatchPoints Seminar is to create dialogue between

Aarhus University and the surrounding society concerning subjects of

wider societal interest. Therefore the seminars will be open to the

public. Moreover, it is characteristic of a MatchPoints seminar that the

speakers at these seminars rank among the most highly esteemed national

and international figures in the field and subject that the seminar is

focused on._

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Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, PhD

Department of Aesthetics and Communication

Aarhus University

Langelandsgade 139

DK - 8000 Aarhus C

E-mail: litmrt@hum.au.dk [6]

Phone: +45 8942 1838 / +45 3114 1419 (mobile)

Personal web-page: http://person.au.dk/en/litmrt@hum.au.dk [7]

Network for Cultural Memory Studies: memory.au.dk/en/

Links:

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[1] mailto:litmrt@hum.au.dk

[2] mailto:anetboh@psy.au.dk

[3] mailto:leonardo.c@hum.au.dk

[4] mailto:engmb@hum.au.dk

[5] mailto:engmb@hum.au.dk

[6] mailto:litmrt@hum.au.dk

[7] http://person.au.dk/en/litmrt@hum.au.dk

La Trobe University, Melbourne

John Scott Meeting House, Bundoora

‘The Time(s) of Our Lives', December 12-15th, 2011

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Elizabeth Grosz (Rutgers University), “Deleuze and Ruyer”

Professor John McCumber (UCLA), “Making Time Intelligible”

Professor James Williams (University of Dundee), “The Time of Teaching”

Special Mini-conference:

“Time and Creation: Castoriadis in the Antipodes” (15th and 16th)

The initial deadline for the submission of conference abstracts is Friday 26 August 2011, and confirmation of selection will be forwarded within 2 weeks of this date.

We will continue to consider abstracts until 1 November 2011 subject to the availability of space on our program.

Abstract proposals of less than 500 words should be emailed to: thetimesofourlives1@gmail.com

Further information on the conference (including the Castoriadis conference) can be found at the ASCP website:

http://www.ascp.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=180&Itemid=53

Information about conference registration fees and accommodation will also be posted by August 26th.

The conference organising committee

Jack Reynolds, Toula Nicolacopoulos, George Vassilacopoulos, Miriam Bankovsky, Sean Bowden, Richard Sebold

Conference Languages: English, Castilian, German, French and Nahuatl

The primary focus for the 7th edition of this inclusive and interdisciplinary annual conference organized by Enkidu Magazine and the International Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS) in Mexico City with the support of the National Human Rights Comission of Mexico, is to interrogate storytelling, memories and identity constructions from a wide range of perspectives, and in their manifold cultural and social manifestations.

We welcome submissions from all branches of the social sciences, humanities, as well as the arts.

Interpretations of the conference themes ranging from the predictable to the surprising are encouraged.

Among the themes of interest are the following:

- Cultural texts

- Narrative and Linguistics

- Linguistic borders and translation

- Narrative and Myth

- Storytelling in rituals, customs, and fetishism.

- Storytelling and Visual/Performing Arts and Music

- Oral Tradition and Contemporary Chronicle

- Postmodernity and its narratives

- Voice and reflexivity in oral and written texts

- Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives

- Conquest and Political Memory

- Globalization and indigenous cultures

- Migrations and Diasporas

- Story, Dialogue and Discourse

- Memory and truth-telling

- Testimonial Narratives

- Memory and Written Record

- Imaginary Homelands

- Displacement Heritage

- Global Spaces and Cultural Memories

- Text, Context and Intertext in Storytelling and Performance

- Children’s Stories- Language, Authority and Silence

Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome since all these topics in themselves stretch across several disciplines: history, literary studies, linguistics, psychology, political sciences, educational sciences, ethnology, queer studies, anthropology, sociology...

Graduate students are encouraged to participate.

The conference has developed into a unique international academic forum for interpretative approaches in the humanities and social sciences. The conference has traditionally also been a forum for discussing creative historical and political memory, remembering and forgetting of the past, as well as translations between cultures and re-negotiations and re-constructions of cultural identities in one one way or another.

The conference is organised into a large number of thematic sessions and sub-conferences addressing a highly diverse series of themes. The conference has an exceptional multilingual and multi-cultural approach, typically bringing together participants from all over the world to share and exchange their research, experiences and ideas in a truly multicultural, multilingual and interdisciplinary academic environment.

The conference sessions are conducted in Castillian and English. Occasionally, the conference also has sessions conducted in German and French. Some sessions will be bilingual and conducted in both languages with interpreters (on request). Other sessions will be conducted in one of the two conference languages, and the session moderator will give summaries of the paper in the other language. Many sessions are being conducted with interpreters for sign language (on request).

Papers are welcomed on virtually all related topics and themes, independently of time period and space. Also papers of comparative phenomena will be considered. Interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged. The conference aims at bringing together academics working in all relevant disciplines as well as activists, artists and other professionals, and promoting innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and dialogue.

CHICS' academic conferences are characterized by traditional paper presentations in panel sessions with three speakers each, followed by lively exchange, dialogue and interaction between speakers and audience in many small groups, workshops and seminars rather than by formal plenary sessions. Our conferences provide a forum for diverse voices from all over the world, to come together and make connections across linguistic, cultural and academic barriers.

* Paper and panel proposals

The conference languages for presentation will be English and Castilian.

500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organising committee in English, Castilian, German or French.

Final papers should be of approximately 20 - 30 minutes duration (circa 8 - 10 pages). Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel debates and poster sessions will be considered on request.

* Proposals for individual papers

Abstracts are to be submitted along with the presenter’s name, short bio, address, telephone, email, and institutional affiliation.

It is recommended to use this form when submitting a paper proposal: http://enkidumagazine.com/chics/huc/registration.htm However, abstracts will also be accepted as e-mail attachments to huc@enkidumagazine.com All correspondence for this conference will be conducted via email. You will be notified by 15. July whether your proposal has been accepted or rejected.

* Proposals for panel sessions

Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3 (maximum 4) speakers and 1 moderator (session chair). Each session will last for 2 hours allowing for 30 minutes for each speaker and a further 30 minutes for questions and discussion. Proposers should submit:

(1) Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words),

(2) Paper titles,

(3) Abstracts for each paper (500 words),

(4) Short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100-150 words),

(5) Institutional affiliation and address for each participant,

(6) Audio-visual and other technical requirements.

If you would like to propose a panel session, and want assistance in finding speakers and/or a session chair, we can publish a call for papers for your panel session on the conference web site and distribute it in our newsletter. If you have an idea for a thematic panel session and would like us to publish a call for papers on the conference website, please send us a proposal by e-mail to huc@enkidumagazine.com

We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted within few days. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to resend your abstract and resubmit your registration form, and if possible, suggest an alternative e-mail address. In particular delegates using hotmail or yahoo accounts to receive conference related e-mails often experience problems receiving conference information by e-mail.

E-mails from the conference organisers are often delivered to your spam folder and not to your inbox, unless you remember to add the following e-mail addresses: huc@enkidumagazine.com and liowlb@enkidumagazine.com to your safe-list. The first address is the general e-mail address of the conference and will be used to send conference newsletters and general information. The second, is the e-mail address of the academic coordinator of the conference and will be used for individual communication with delegates.

* EXHIBITORS, PUBLISHERS AND ARTISTS:

Artists are welcome to suggest exhibitions and displays of art during the conference.

Organisations, universities and publishers are welcome to sign up for information stands at the conference center. Commercial exhibitors pay a modest daily fee.

The following information is required by artists, publishers and other exhibitors during the conference:

1) Technical Description of the information stand or artwork with indications of technical requirements for their presentation, the size and extension of the individual artworks to be presented.

2) Estimated Insurance value of the artworks

3) One image of a representative sample of artistic work from the exhibitions can be sent by e-mail to the conference organizers in the format tiff or jpg.

4) Curriculum Vitae of artist (or organisation).

5) Description of Exhibition (300 - 500 words).

6) Short bio of artist (or organisation).

* CULTURAL AND SOCIAL PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

The academic sessions with formal paper presentations will take place between 4 November and 9. November 2011. Before the conference, we will organise a number of cultural and social activities for conference delegates and we hope that many international delegates will consider arriving in Mexico City some days before the conference and participate in these activities.

In addition conference delegates with name badges will be given discounts and sometimes free access to various theatre plays, concerts, film screenings and other events before and during the conference. The final program for the cultural and social pre-conference activities will be published on the conference web site and will be announced also in the conference newsletter, which will be distributed by e-mail in the months before the conference.

* Disabled Participants

We are pleased to announce that printed conference materials that will be distributed during the conference, also will be available in large print or Braille on request. If you require sign language interpretation during your session, or you would like to distribute handouts or other materials in Braille during your presentation, please indicate this in the registration form.

Participants with disabilities are recommended to indicate this in the form if they require any special support or assistance during the event or during social and cultural activities before or during the conference.

* REGISTRATION FEE for "Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions":

- Waged delegates (speakers): 200 USD

- Students and unwaged delegates (speakers): 150 USD

Payment received via PayPal or bank transfer in advance (Payments completed before 15 July. A suplement of 50 USD applies after this day and for payments on location). We recommend everyone to arrange their payment of the registration fee before the conference. On location, we have no possibility to process credit cards, nor issue official receipts and the registration desk will generally be staffed with volunteer students who are not entitled to receive payments in cash. If you for any reason prefer to pay on location in Mexico, please inform the organizers in advance, and we will find a solution for you.

Enkidu and the participating organisations will not be able to provide travel support for conference delegates. It is therefore strongly recommended to apply for a scholarship or a grant from other sources. Delegates from non-OECD countries and students and unwaged delegates from any country who do not receive financial support to attend the conference, can apply for a reduced registration fee.

A selection of papers will be considered for publication in an edited collection. Enquiries about the conference should be sent to huc@enkidumagazine.com .

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Indivisibility has long been among the defining characteristics of sovereignty. As Hans J. Morgenthau once stated this point, “sovereignty over the same territory cannot reside simultaneously in two different authorities, that is, sovereignty is indivisible.” Sovereignty cannot be divided without ceasing to be sovereignty proper, and precisely this quality of being indivisible distinguishes sovereign authority from other forms of political power. Dividing sovereignty between two or more authorities within a given state would therefore be to dissolve that state into parts. The indivisibility of sovereignty is thus a necessary condition of the unity of the state.

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Fareld will give a presentation on "Disordered Time as Moral Imperative: Jean Amery’s Melancholic Historical Consciousness", Friday, June 10 9:00-10:30.

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Call for papers

International seminar

Aarhus University, 8-9 December 2011

The study of (social or cultural) memory often take the form of analyses of more or less "finished" expressions and works of art, architecture, literature etc. and on the creativity or intentionality imbued in them. As important as such expressions are, in this seminar we seek to shift the focus from the works of art itself, or from their representation, to the processes, practices and performances that surround, shape and derive from them. Focusing less on the finished piece and more on the acts and assemblages of meaning and potential connected to them – whether in the form of unintended uses of sites, heritage tourism, art reception, ritual performance or something else – we want to highlight not only the social dimensions of "memory" but also the circumstances and processes under which the site or expression itself is invariably produced; the work-in-progress of memorisation, so to speak.

We are proud to present as keynote speakers two major international figures in the field: Professor Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam) and Professor Kevin Hetherington (Open University, UK).

In addition to the two keynotes, we invite papers that deal with various aspects of the doing, shaping or performing of social or cultural memory. Some subthemes that may be addressed include (but are not limited to):

• The materiality of memory: the role of relics, objects, materiality, or what Daniel Miller has termed "stuff" in the stagings and collaboration of memory
• The mediation and remediation of memory: the role of various media in practices of remembering
• Memory and place, aura and hauntedness: the role, affordances and restrictions, symbolic as well as tactile, of specific locations and sites in which memorialization "takes place"
• The concept of re-enactment and the manifold processes, performances and collaborations through which past events are re-staged and re-presenced
• Memory and history: the erasure of memory and the "need" and practices of selective memory and forgetting, including the history politics of such processes
• Memorialization and affect: the staging, production and strategic uses of affect and emotionality in memory practices
• The temporalities of memory: how acts of memory often reconfigure the role (and experience) of time, attempting to somehow break, stop or even symbolically reverse time
• Memory practices and/as transformation: how aspects of learning, healing, reconciliation or other (intended or unintended) transformational outcomes for the future are related to processes of remembering
• Memory performances and the body: the embodied dimensions of memory work and perception, as theorized by such notions as (for example) "the repertoire" and "the archive" (Diana Taylor), "kinetic empathy" (Thrift) and/or "attunement" (Massumi).

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted to memory@au.dk no later than October 1, 2011.

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The project is located at AHO, the Oslo Centre for Critical Studies in Architecture (OCCAS) and will run 2011 - 2014.

"Place and Displacement" investigates practices of displaying architecture in both historical and contemporary contexts, with cases drawn from full scale exhibits of architecture in open-air museums, through the trade in architectural oeuvres, to the construction of imaginary architectural museums. A central aspect of these cases is that they allow us to review mechanisms of displacement that condition the exhibition of the architectural object in various ways. The overall aim of the project is to establish a productive review of the medium of the architectural exhibition. A crucial aspect therefore is to establish an open and productive cross-disciplinary environment, in which this project can be developed.

The project will fund for two full-time PhD positions and four three-month guest-professorships (Dr. Ola Storsletten, Norsk institutt for kulturminne-forskning, NIKU, Dr. Victor Plahte Tschudi, Norwegian Institute in Rome, Oslo University, Dr. Wallis Miller, University of Kentucky and Dr. Jorge Otero-Pailos, Columbia University, NY)

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I mötet med sentida ruiner krackelerar vår bild av moderniteten som ny och framtidsinriktad. Det ger oss anledning att reflektera över den kronologiska tidens betydelse för vår historieförståelse.

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Mats Burström will give a talk about “Creative Confusion. The

Potential of Late Modern Ruin”.

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The lecture is arranged by the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) and Time, Memory and Representation – A Multidisciplinary Program on transformation in Historical Consciousness.

Aleida Assmann is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at University of Konstanz, and a member of the Time, Memory, Representation Advisory Board.

Professor Aleida Assmann

Assmann's research is chiefly concerned with the questions of cultural memory, remembering, and forgetting. Notably, she has examined the tensions between personal experience and official remembrance in the history of memory in Germany after the Second World War. In a recent work, Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit - Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik (2006), Assmann points out a number of possible paths from an individual to a collective construction of the past.

Assmann has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities and institutes, including the Getty Center in Santa Monica, California (1995), Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (1998-99), and Princeton University (2001).

Södertörn Lectures

Södertörn Lectures is a series of interdisciplinary lectures arranged under the auspices of Principal Moira von Wright. Prominent visiting scholars at the University addressing the public, students and staff give lectures, which are subsequently published in a special publication series.

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When? Wednesday, May 18th, 14.00-15.30

Where? Room MB 503, on the third floor in the B-wing, Main building, Södertörn University, Campus Flemingsberg

Language? English

Afterwards? Wine and snacks

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Additional information:

Apostolis Papakostas

apostolis.papakostas@sh.se

Lisa Kings

lisa.kings@sh.se

Andrus Ers

andrus.ers@sh.se

DEUTSCH-FRANZÖSISCH-TÜRKISCHE SOMMERSCHULE

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Das Netzwerk Migration in Europa (www.network-migration.org) organisiert in Zusammenarbeit mit Partnern aus Köln (Universität Köln, Museumsdienst der Stadt Köln), Frankreich (Génériques, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Universität Toulouse, Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée) und der Türkei (Bosporus Universität, History Foundation) eine deutsch- französisch-türkische Sommerschule zum Thema Migration, kulturelle Vielfalt und Museum.

Le Netzwerk Migration in Europa (www.network-migration.org) organise, en collaboration avec des partenaires de Cologne (Université de Cologne, Service des Musées de la Ville de Cologne), de France (Génériques, Institut Historique Allemand, l'Université de Toulouse II et le Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée) et de Turquie (l'Université du Bosphore, History Foundation) une Université d'été franco-germano-turque sur le thème « Migrations, Diversité Culturelle et Musées ».

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The Turku Historical Association and the Controlling History network will organize a two-day symposium for researchers and post-graduate students. The seminar will study the interactions between historical knowledge, memory and politics in the Baltic Sea Region. It will take place on the 28-29 September, in Turku, the European Capital of Culture 2011.

The organizers have the pleasure to welcome both experts and doctoral students working within the fields of history, humanities, political and social sciences, We will convene in Turku to study the various cultural and political functions of historical knowledge, arguments, myths and narratives.

The organizers welcome proposals for

1. Individual presentations gathered in 90 minutes long workshops comprising a maximum of 4 presentations.

2. Full panels. A full panel organized around a special theme should consist of 3-4 panelists.

Please bear in mind both in panels and individual presentations that the maximum length for each presentation should be 15 minutes.

Due to time constraints and to ensure the homogeneity of the seminar, we have to limit the amount of presentations to a maximum of 50. Therefore we will give priority to topics that meet both the geographic focus of the seminar (the Baltic Sea Region including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland) and the overall theme.

We welcome presentations relating especially to the following themes

Writing of history in the past and the present

Conflicting narratives on the past Historians' and other scholars' role in memory conflicts Ethical questions of remembering and forgetting Political uses of historical knowledge Histories and historical myths as cultural tools Problems of teaching of history Media and arts in creating and mediating historical culture

All proposals for panels (600 words) and individual presentations (300 words) should be emailed as MS Word or pdf attachments to the chair of the organizing committee, Pertti Grönholm (shared.past.symposium(at)gmail.com) by the deadline of 21 April 2011.

Proposals must include all relevant contact information, a title, and the main questions to be addressed during the presentation. Panel proposals should contain the abstracts of all the presentations involved, the contact information of all panelists, and a title for the panel. They should also identify clearly the panel’s chair, who will act as contact person for organizational purpose.

The abstracts will be evaluated by the organizing committee and a decision announced on each of them by 31 May 2011.

Shared Past – Conflicting Histories Symposium will include six keynote lectures, plenary discussions, workshops, and an informal social programme. Central to the organization of this symposium is a will to deepen the discussion on the common themes and broaden the contacts and networks of individual researchers and post-graduate students.

The keynote lectures in plenary sessions will be given by

Professor Klas-Göran Karlsson (University of Lund) Professor Nikolay Koposov (University of St. Petersburg) Professor Henrik Meinander (University of Helsinki) Professor Alfonsas Eidintas (University of Vilnius) Dr. Irene Sneidere (University of Latvia) Dr. Marek Tamm (University of Tallinn)

The final programme of the symposium will be published on this website by early August.

This symposium has no participation fee, but the participants should organize their accommodation in Turku. The town has been elected as European Capital of Culture 2011, and we thus advise our guests to organize their accommodation (hotels, etc) at the earliest possible opportunity. This website will provide links to hotels and hostels.

The members of the organizing committee are happy to give further information and advice in all practical matters.

The organizing committee

Dr. (docent) Pertti Grönholm, dept. of General History, University of Turku Dr. Louis Clerc, dept. of Contemporary History, University of Turku M.A. Heli Rantala, dept. of Cultural History, University of Turku

Contact and information

Email: shared.past.symposium(at)gmail.com WWW: http://sharedpastsymposium.blogspot.com/

The main organizers are supported by

School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, University of Turku Department of Political Science and Contemporary History, University of Turku Department of History, Åbo Akademi University The Graduate School on Integration and Interaction in the Baltic Sea Region, University of Turku Baltic Sea Region Studies Master's Programme, University of Turku

Change of Location! New: FRIAS-House, Albertstr. 19

Organizers: Chris Lorenz, External Senior Fellow and Berber Bevernage (University of Ghent)

Since the birth of modernity history has presupposed the existence of ‘the past’ as its object, yet the concept of ‘the past’ and the distinction between the categories of ‘the past’, ‘the present’ and ‘the future’ have seldom been reflected upon within the boundaries of the discipline. Indeed the question of time has largely been omitted from the agenda of history. We feel that it is about time for historians and philosophers of history to start to analyze how cultures in general and historians in particular actually distinguish ‘the past’ from ‘the present’ and ‘the future’, and how their interrelationships are constructed: is distinguishing between past, present and future simply a matter of passively ‘recognizing’ or ‘observing’, what is ‘natural’ and ‘undeniable’, or does it involve a more active stance in which social actors create and recreate these divisions? Can we claim to know precisely how ‘present’ social and cultural phenomena turn into (or come to be perceived/recognized as) past phenomena? It seems worthwhile to make a connection between the historical and the philosophical debates about the temporal distinctions between ‘past’, ‘present’ and ‘future’. What have so far been lacking are comparative analyses of the variety of ways in which historians and historical actors have been breaking up time in practice. Both historians and philosophers have emphasized the role played by catastrophic political ruptures, for example revolutions and major wars, in ‘breaking up time’. However, the effects of these ‘transformative events’ on notions of temporality have hardly been studied in a comparative perspective and as ‘performative’ events. ‘Year 1’ in the French Revolution and ‘Stunde Null’ in post-1945 Germany probably are two of the most well known examples of this type of event in ‘the past’, but the end of the Cold War in 1990 may be considered as the most ‘epoch making’ event in ‘the present’.

The workshop solicits papers which focus on (preferably two) ‘transformative events’ and compare the ways in which they have recalibrated thinking about the relationship between the ‘past’, ‘present’ and ‘future’. The temporal framework of the workshop covers classical and high modernity, that is: from 1789 until today. As to the spatial framework the workshop is subdivided in three clusters: 1. Europe; 2. Europe and its colonies; 3. Europe and non-colonial ‘outer-Europe’. > more

contact: Chris Lorenz (chris.lorenz@frias.uni-freiburg.de) and Berber Bevernage (berber.bevernage@ugent.be).

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Climate change is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is reshaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity’s place on Earth. This symposium presents the research findings of the Australian Research Council international Linkage project, Hot Science, Global Citizens: the agency of the museum sector in climate change interventions along with other leading research to develop new knowledge about what constitutes effective action around climate change, the critical roles that institutions can play and visions for the future of museums and science centres. The second day will feature an ‘unconference’ session to tease out innovative programming ideas and engage.

Registration now open and draft program is available:

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Enquiries: Laurence.GOURIEVIDIS@univ-bpclermont.fr

The Turku Historical Association and the Controlling History network welcome proposals from researchers and doctorial students working within the fields of history, humanities, political and social sciences.

The deadline for panel proposals (600 words) and individual presentations (300 words) is 3 April 2011.To learn more about the conference

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This international European Science Foundation funded conference seeks to provide a platform for exchange, reflecting on the new EU-wide interest in museums as spaces of cultural encounter that occupy a unique position at the junction between 'the local', 'the national' and 'the global'.

Chair: Sharon MacDonald, University of Manchester, UK

This conference invites early career practitioners in museum studies, anthropology, art history, sociology, architecture, design, archaeology, and all related fields, as well as junior practitioners in museums, galleries, and archives, to submit papers or poster papers. Read more.

Museum 2011 International conference

Tapei, Taiwan 16-8 November

Papers for this conference are solicited on history and theory, empirical research, or reflections on museums in practice as related to national museums and identity politics from academics in a variety of fields. The conference organisers are inviting proposals from delegates wishing to present 30-minute papers, or 90-minute colloquium sessions. Those interested are welcome to submit related papers.

Themes:

1.Museums, nationalism and national identity

2.Museum history and historiography

3.Architecture and the construction of place and identity

4.The re-making of National Museums

5.Museum management and marketing

6.Audience research and the roles of national museums

Enquiries may be sent to: Dr Yung-Neng Lin, National Taipei University of Education

Email: museum2011.tw@gmail.com

The session Museums beyond the nation? invites researchers to deal with museums and their exhibition narratives in a global, postcolonial and cosmopolitan context. Please observe that this call has a very short deadline.

Between History and Politics: The Second World War in Museums in Western and Eastern Europe

Historisches Kolleg / Collegium Carolinum, München 29 June – 1 July, 2011

This international conference, held in German and English, focuses on strategies of representations of World War II and aims for a comparative perspective. The intention is to go beyond the analysis of different national cultures of remembrance and examine their trans-national entanglements.

Historians and scholars from related fields such as cultural studies are invited to send a 500 word abstract and a brief CV (5 publications max.). Deadline April 1, 2011

Date and meeting venue 30/31 March - 1 April 2011 Aula Prodi, Complesso San Giovanni in Monte Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2 Bologna

30 March 2011 - Public event

Registration closed on the 21st March.

31 March/1 April 2011- Reserved to project partners, young researchers and experts only.

Registration closed

The building of national museums enables nations and states to claim, negotiate, articulate and represent dominant national narratives with regard to politics, culture, science, and their internal and external boundaries. The creation of national museums should therefore be explored as an integral part of the historical and contemporary processes that drive the dynamic foundation of nations and states.

This conference draws on a comprehensive set of national reports exploring the museum-making process in European states to pose a set of comparative questions. The main comparative themes will be the role of the active agents, the challenges that they faced and face, the visions manifest in their strategies, the integrative thrust of the museum structure (centre-periphery, state-nation), and the consequences of museum-making in relation to the of states and national identities.

The first evening of the conference is open to the public with welcome addresses and keynote speeches from Professor Peter Aronsson Linköping University and Professor Ilaria Porciani University of Bologna.

The conference’s second day is comprised of a series of thematic sessions with a row a prominent discussants such as Professors Tony Bennett, Stefan Berger, Dominique Poulot and Peter Apor. The event has a workshop character. Scholars and students with special interests in museum history are invited to apply for participation.

The event ends with summary discussions on the following day.

Building national museums in Europe 1750-2010 is the first in a series of conferences organized by the three-year research project Eunamus: European national museums: Identity politics, the uses of the past and the European citizen. This EU funded projects gathers researchers from eight leading universities.

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Burström is invited by the research group "Places - Regions - Identities".

Link to research group homepage:

http://www.uib.no/fg/steder-regioner (in Norwegian)

Places, people, stories an interdisciplinary & international conference. Linnaeus University, Kalmar 28-30 September 2011

The museum beyond the nation?

In today’s global, postcolonial and cosmopolitan context right-wing groups, religious extremists and extreme political parties are appropriating heritage and criticizing museum displays. Indigenous people, local groups and organizations are claiming rights to the past. The nation-state is at the same time deeply questioned. This session wants to explore the role of the museum in the future through references to the present and the past. The deliberately general and vague questions are based on the theme of the conference: places, people and stories. In a global, postcolonial and cosmopolitan context, contrary to a colonial and nation-based context, museums have to rethink their stories, the place as such and the people to whom they aim: What stories are told and why? Who is the audience? How is the museum as a physical space structured? These questions are related to questions such as: What stories were told in the past? Who was the audience? How was the museum as a physical space structured? Lastly: Is there a future for the museum as we know it?

Contact: Johan Hegardt johan.hegardt@bredband.net

Link to Hegardt's"The museum beyond the nation?" session

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Special Issue – Call for Papers –Journal of Literary Studies

Mending Wounds: Healing, Working Through, or Staying in Trauma?

Guest Editors: Dr Liz Kella, Södertörn University and the University of Uppsala, Sweden;

Dr David Watson, University of Uppsala, Sweden; and

Professor Merle Williams, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Trauma has often been theorized as unrepresentable, as severely challenging the representational capacities of both language and visual media. Yet it has also been suggested that literary and other aesthetic modes have a unique potential for expressing the experience of trauma. Yet again, there may be aesthetic and/or political investments in keeping trauma alive, in denying or refusing closure.

This volume seeks to bring together critical explorations of the aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions of trauma in Southern African and North American/Caribbean art and culture. Our focus falls on the material, corporeal embodiment of trauma in wounds and scars (as well as on its psycho-somatic analogues). Can wounds and scars be said to make the psychological or cultural dimensions of traumatic experience representable? What role do they play in imagining – or, on the contrary, refusing – the healing and mending of lived traumas? What mnemonic function does the scar have in relation to the original trauma? What are the ethics of remembering and forgetting? How do such opposed responses come to represent closure or continuation?

Drawing on diverse academic fields, this volume will explore different approaches to the ways in which wounds and scars may challenge notions of the unrepresentability of trauma, thus aiming to contribute to the conceptualization of a therapeutic temporality that moves beyond current European ethico-political perspectives. Envisaged articles should not exceed 5,000 words. Please submit a proposal of no more than 500 words, together with a short CV, by the deadline of 28 February to David Watson (david.watson@engelska.uu.se).

THE GLOBAL DIMENSIONS OF EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE, 1450-1700

Birkbeck, University of London, 24-5 June, 2011

The conference programme, abstracts and speakers' biographies are now

online at:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/news/global-dimensions-of-knowledge

Registration details will be mounted here in due course.

If you wish to be added to the conference mailing-list, please contact the

conference organizer, Dr Surekha Davies, at

s.davies@bbk.ac.uk<ats.davies@bbk.ac.uk>

This conference is sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust, the Society for

Renaissance Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, the Royal Historical

Society and the Journal of Early Modern History.

Global Dimensions of European Knowledge, 24-5 June, 2011

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/news/global-dimensions-of-knowledge

Dr Surekha Davies

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2009-2012) Department of History, Classics

and Archaeology Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HX

United Kingdom

From Ancient to Modern

1-4 August 2011, Athens, Greece

9th Annual International Conference on History:

From Ancient to Modern

1-4 August 2011, Athens, Greece

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

The History Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and

Research (ATINER) will organize its 9th Annual International Conference

on History in Athens, Greece on 1-4 August 2011. The conference will be

held in downtown Athens, within walking distance of the Acropolis

(Parthenon) and other historical sites of Athens.

Papers (in English) from all areas of history are welcome. Special

sessions will be organized in the following areas: Ancient Greek and

Roman History, Cultural History, History of Religion, Arts History,

Economic History, Political and Social History, Sports History (History

of Olympic Games), History of Sciences, History of Philosophy,

Intellectual History, Modern American History, Latin American History,

African History, Asian History, European History, Personalities in

Philosophy and History, Interactions of Civilizations (East-West &amp;

North-South), Historiography, Historic Preservation and the Future of

Historical Studies. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of

one paper, chair a session or observer. The conference website is

http://www.atiner.gr/history.htm. Selected papers will be published in a

Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. The previous conferences

produced a number of books. Visit our site

http://www.atiner.gr/docs/HISTORY_PUBLICATIONS.htm for titles, table of

contents and order form.

The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions,

conference material and 2 lunches. Special arrangements will be made

with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference

rate. In addition, planned tours to historical sites and nearby islands

will be organized. A special evening is organized with live Greek music

and dinner. During the tour, we will visit, among other sites: Hadrian’s

Arch, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Panathenaic Stadium where the

first Olympic Games of the modern era were held in 1896, and on

Acropolis: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erectheion and

finally “the harmony between material and spirit”, the monument that

“puts order in the mind”, the Parthenon.

Please submit a 300-word abstract via email only by 1st of March

2011 to the following address: Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Professor of

History, Sam Houston State University, USA and Vice-President of

ATINER. 8 Valaoritou

Street, Kolonaki, 10671 Athens, Greece. Tel.: + 30 210 363-4210 Fax: +

30 210 363-4209 Email: atiner@atiner.gr. Abstracts should include: Title

of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address

and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your

submission. We also invite people to chair sessions, act as reviewers

and editors of the book(s) that will be published after the conference.

If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a

session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or

books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send

an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, gtp@atiner.gr, Director, ATINER.

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established

in 1995 as an independent academic organization with the mission to

become a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the

world - could meet in Athens and exchange ideas on their research and

discuss the future developments of their discipline. Since 1995, ATINER

has organized more than 100 international conferences and has published

over 100 books. Academically, the Institute consists of four research

divisions and nineteen research units. Each research unit organizes at

least an annual conference and undertakes various small and large

research projects.

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

29 September-1 October 2011

"Twenty Years after 1991: The Reshaping of Space and Identity"

Joint Conference of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAN (Moscow)

Centre d'études franco-russe (Moscow)

Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow)

and the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

29 September-1 October 2011

***Deadline: 2 March 2011***

Contact information:

proposals must be submitted to:

asnmoscou@centre-fr.net AND

asnmoscow2011@gmail.com

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The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of

Sciences, the Centre d'études Franco-Russe de Moscou (CEFR), the Russian

State University of the Humanities (RGGU) and the Association for the

Study of Nationalities (ASN) are joining forces to organize the Joint

International Conference "Twenty Years Later: Reshaping Space and

Identity" that will be held on September 29-October 1 2011 at the Russian

Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia.

The Moscow ASN 2011 Conference invites proposals from scholars and

doctoral students. Applicants currently residing in Central Europe, the

Balkans, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia/Eurasia, the Caucasus and China are

eligible to apply for a number of travel and accommodation grants.

Applicants currently residing in Western countries must cover their own

expenses. The working language of the Conference is English, although a

number of panels on the New Independent States will be conducted in

Russian.

"Twenty Years After 1991" is the sixth European conference co-sponsored by

ASN since 2001. European conferences have been held in Paris (2001),

Forli, Italy (2002), Warsaw (2004), Belgrade (2006), and again in Paris

(2008).

The Moscow ASN 2011 Conference is organized separately from the ASN Annual

World Convention that will take place at Columbia University, NY, on April

14-16 2011, and whose program will be announced in February 2011. For

information on the ASN 2011 NY Convention, please go to

www.nationalities.org. The Moscow ASN 2011 Conference will feature

approximately 40 - 50 panels. Its program will be announced in May 2011.

The Moscow ASN 2011 Conference welcomes proposals on a wide range of

topics related to the recomposition of space and identity in the

post-Communist world twenty years after the implosion of the Soviet Union.

Proposals are particularly sought under one of the following themes:

•Between Enlarged Europe and New Russia: Opposition or Convergence

•Migration in the Eurasian Space: Adaptation, Integration, Rejection

•The Clash of Memory and History: Re-readings of the 20th Century,

Communist Experiences, WW II

•Multicultural and Multi-confessional Societies: Accommodations or Conflicts

•Frontiers and Sovereignty: Contestation, Recognition, Secession,

Autonomy, Federalism

•Demography and Social Problems: Censuses and Categorizations, Population,

Old and New Social Inequalities

•Political Regimes and Institutions: Human Rights, Minority Rights,

Representation

…as are questions raised from the disciplines of political science,

history, anthropology, sociology, economics, geography, geopolitics,

linguistics, and related fields.

The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences,

(IEA RAS) is a leading research center of Russia in a number of social

sciences and humanities – from physical (biological) anthropology to

social-cultural anthropology, history, demography, gender, conflict and

minority studies. Its staff of 150 researchers produces 30-40 scholarly

monographs a year, based on field and archival research. It publishes a

bimonthly journal "Ethnographic Review", a series of working papers in

urgent and applied anthropology, and encyclopedic and reference editions

in ethnology and anthropology. IEA RAS has a rich archive of field

materials as well as visual documentation. It has a stable international

reputation and rich scholarly contacts with many countries. The institute

is located at the main building of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with

excellent facilities for meetings. IEA RAS hosted many international

conferences over the years. Its 40 graduate students from many regions of

Russia, as well as its staff and partners, will be in charge of the local

preparations for the event.

The French-Russian Research Center for Social Sciences in Moscow (CEFR) is

one of the 27 French Research Institutes Abroad affiliated with the French

Minister of Foreign Affairs and the CNRS (French National Center for

Scientific Research). Since its foundation in 2001, CEFR stimulates

cooperation in the human and social sciences between French and Russian

research institutions. Besides the Russian Federation, CEFR works with

scholars and institutes from Belarus, Moldavia and Ukraine. CEFR is a

multidisciplinary research center supervised by the CNRS. It hosts

visiting scholars (professors or assistant-professors on sabbatical years)

and PhD fellows on a yearly basis, supports young researchers with

short-term grants for field work and develops extended cooperation with

the main Russian and European research centers. The CEFR organizes

seminars, workshops and international conferences in Russia and France.

<http://www.centre-fr.net>

The Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) was founded in

March 1991 on the basis of the Moscow State Institute for History and

Archives, which had existed since 1930. The RGGU was the first university

in modern Russia that was titled Russian and the first to acquire the

status of a higher school for the humanities. Today the RGGU offers more

than 70 training programs, including all the branches of humanitarian and

social education, as well as several cross-disciplinary programs. The

university produces the following specialists: historians, philologists,

linguists, ethnologists, anthropologists, philosophers, economists,

managers, IT specialists, art historians, designers, museologists, culture

experts etc. For the past 10 years the Centre for social anthropology at

RGGU, headed by Valery Tishkov, a member of the Russian Academy of

Sciences, has been successfully training anthropologists and ethnologists.

The Moscow ASN 2011 Conference invites individual, panel or film/book

proposals. There are no registration fees.

To send an individual paper proposal, an applicant must include the

following information in the body of an email and/or in a single Word

attachment:

• the title of the paper

• applicant's name, email and institutional affiliation

• a preferred postal address

• a 500-word abstract

• 100-word biographical statement in narrative form (one paragraph) that

includes information on the applicant's last or forthcoming publication,

if applicable. Full CVs are not acceptable

• doctoral students — must also indicate the title of their dissertation

and year of projected defense

Incomplete applications will be rejected.

A panel proposal is comprised of three to four paper-givers and a

discussant. (The organizers will subsequently select a Chair of the

panel). To send a panel proposal, an applicant must include the following

information in the body of an email and/or in a single Word attachment:

• the title of the panel and of each paper

• a 300-word abstract of each paper

• the name, email, institutional affiliation of each panelist

• a preferred postal address for each panelist

• a 100-word biographical statement for each panelist in narrative form

(one paragraph) that includes information on the applicant's last or

forthcoming publication, if applicable. Full CVs are not acceptable

• Doctoral students — must also indicate the title of their dissertation

and year of projected defense

The Conference is also inviting proposals featuring recent

films/documentaries or recent books. A film/documentary proposal must

include the following information in the body of an email and/or in a

single Word attachment:

• the name, email and institutional affiliation of the author

• a preferred postal address

• the title and a 500-word abstract of the film/video

• a 100-word biographical statement in narrative form

A book panel proposal, seeking to generate discussion on an important

recent book, features the book's author and three or four discussants. The

proposal must include the following information in the body of an email

and/or in a single Word attachment:

• the names, emails, and institutional affiliations of each panelist

• a preferred postal address for each panelist

• a 500-word abstract of the book

• a 100-word biographical statement in narrative form of each panelist

All proposals must be included in a single attachment sent to two

addresses: asnmoscou@centre-fr.net and asnmoscow2011@gmail.com.

Applicants who wish to apply for a grant covering travel and accommodation

must indicate so in their proposals. In order to be eligible for these

grants, an applicant must be residing at the time of the conference in

Central Europe, the Balkans, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia/Eurasia, or the

Caucasus. The reception of all proposals will be acknowledged

electronically.

The Conference is organized by Valery Tishkov, Director of the Institute

of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Efim

Pivovar, Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU),

Jean Radvanyi, Director of the Centre d'études franco-russe de Moscou,

and Dominique Arel, ASN President.

The International Program Committee of the Conference is comprised of

Valery Tishkov, Jean Radvanyi, Dominique Arel (U of Ottawa, Canada, ASN

President), Olga Artemova (Deputy Director of the RGGU Center for Social

Anthropology), Florian Bieber (U of Graz, Austria), Juliette Cadiot

(Centre d'études franco-russe, Moscow, Russian Federation), Dominique

Colas (SciencesPo, Paris, France), Elena Filippova (Institute of

Ethnology, Moscow, Russian Federation), Dmitry Gorenburg (Harvard U, US),

Alexandra Goujon (U de Dijon, France), Marlène Laruelle (SAIS, Johns

Hopkins, US), Xavier Le Torrivellec (Centre d'études franco-russe, Moscow,

Russian Federation), Troy McGrath (MGU, Moscow) and Sergei Sokolovsky

(Institute of Ethnology, Moscow, Russian Federation).

Deputy Director Professor Marina Martynova and Dr. Elena Pivneva will be

local coordinators from the IEA RAS.

Applicants will be notified in April-May 2011. Information regarding other

logistical questions (visa, accommodation..) will be communicated

afterwards. Updated information on the conference will be posted

periodically on the CEFR web site (<http://www.centre-fr.net>) and the ASN

web site www.nationalities.org.

We look forward to receiving your proposal!

Valery Tishkov, Efim Pivovar and Jean Radvanyi, on behalf of the Program

Committee

Deadline for proposals: 2 March 2011

(to be sent to both asnmoscou@centre-fr.net AND asnmoscow2011@gmail.com)

University Centre of Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena), Italy

Call for Papers: 14th International Mikhail Bakhtin Conference‏

The conference will be organized around various coordinated topic areas 1) The philological issue (the situation of Bakhtinian texts, with particular reference to the critical edition in seven volumes as yet unfinished; 2) Bakhtin philosopher and theorist (his contribution to philosophy, literary theory, religious thought, aesthetics, anthropology and contemporary human sciences); 3) Bakhtin and literary, cultural and anthropological history (corpuses, objects, languages, chronotopes). There will also be special sessions on the Bakhtin Circle, religious thought, linguistic and mediological research, and musicology. However, papers and panel proposals on all aspects of the work of the Bakhtin Circle are welcome: genesis, influences, comparisons, reception, extensions, reformulations, exegesis, textology, translation, teaching, and in all spheres in which Bakhtinian thought is proving to be particularly productive.

Extended Deadline for Proposals of Papers: February 28, 2011 Deadline for Panel Proposals: February 15, 2011

Proposals should include: paper title, abstract of 600-800 words, author’s name, institutional affiliation, full mailing address and e-mail address. Please include up to five key words to describe your topic.

Please send proposals in word format to: Federico Pellizzi at federico.pellizzi@unibo.it Acceptances will sent out by March 15, 2011.

International Advisory Committee: Ramon Alvarado, Universidad autónoma metropolitana (Mexico)

Craig Brandist, Bakhtin Centre Sheffield (GB)

Mika Lähteenmäki, Jyväskylä University (Finland)

Vitalij Machlin, MSPU (Russia)

Nikolaj I. Nikolaev, PSUL (Russia)

Clive Thomson, Western Ontario University (Canada)

Anthony Wall, University of Calgary (Canada)

Italian Scientific Committee Giovanni Bottiroli (Comparative Literature, University o Bergamo)

Giuseppe Ghini (Slavic Studies, University of Urbino)

Federico Pellizzi (Italian Studies, University of Bologna),

Coordinator Ganpiero Piretto (Slavic Studies, University of Milano)

Augusto Ponzio (Semiotics and Philosophy of Language, University of Bari)

Ezio Raimondi (Italian Studies, University of Bologna, IBC)

Cesare Segre (Italian and Romance Studies, University of Pavia)

Vittorio Strada (Slavic Studies, University of Venezia)

Official Conference Languages: English, French, Russian, Italian.

Conference website (currently under construction): http://www.bakhtinconference2011.it

Contact information Scientific Coordinator: Federico Pellizzi federico.pellizzi@unibo.it

Coordinating Assistant: Susan Brewer smbrewer@talktalk.net Conference Organizer: Roberta Partisani rpartisani@ceub.it

PETER BURKE

"The History of Microhistory"

Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College at Cambridge University. Among his most famous books are The Art of Conversation (1993), A Social History of Knowledge (2000), and What is Cultural History? (2004)

DeGeersalen, Geovetenskapens hus, February 10, 14-17 h

www.fokult.su.se

Link to Invitation

Info from the Publishers in Swedish:

Historia är såklart det som hänt i förfluten tid. Men vilka händelser blir en del av vår historia – och vem bestämmer det? I den här boken poängteras att historisk kunskap och politisk vilja samspelar för att avgöra vad som är värdefullt att bevara till eftervärlden och vad som är av ondo och därmed bör förändras.

”Den här boken bjuder på koncentrerad, mångfacetterad och informativ läsning. På relativt få sidor lyckas Aronsson med konststycket att ge den intresserade läsaren en perspektivrik skildring av såväl begreppet som ämnet historia. Han kommer en god bit på väg i sin ambition att ringa in en helhetssyn på historiens roll i såväl dåtiden som samtiden.” Hans-Åke Persson professor i modern europeisk historia vid Roskilde universitet

Link to Aronsson at Liber Publishers

Call for papers 1st of March 2011 We hereby announce a call for papers that investigate issues related to the topic of the conference. Deadline for abstract submission is March 1st, 2011.

A response to your abstract will be given by April 1st. Please submit your proposal in the form of an abstract of maximum one A4 page (250 words) to: Ulrik Houlind Rasmussen, uhr@teol.ku.dk or Carsten Pallesen: cp@teol.ku.dk Detailed programme and keynote speakers will be announced later.

Link to Conference Homepage

National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been used to create a sense of national self, place the nation in the arts, deal with the consequences of political change, remake difficult pasts, and confront those issues of nationalism, ethnicity and multiculturalism which have come to the fore in national politics in recent decades. National Museums combines research from both leading and new researchers in the fields of history, museum studies, cultural studies, sociology, history of art, media studies, science and technology studies, and anthropology. It is an interrogation of the origins, purpose, organisation, politics, narratives and philosophies of national museums.

Peter Aronsson is Professor in Cultural Heritage and the Uses of History at a multi-disciplinary Culture Studies Department at Linköping University. He is also a member of the Time, Memory and Representation Program, and Coordinator of the Eunamus Project.

Simon Knell is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.Arne Bugge Amundsen is an award-winning Professor of Cultural History and Head of the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo.

Link to National Museums at Routledge

Link to Eunamus Research Program

First call for papers: Living with the past

The Philosophy Department of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is hosting a conference on the topic ‘Living with the Past’.

Date: 3-5 June 2011

Keynote speakers:

Howard McGary (Rutgers)

Lionel K. McPherson (Tufts)

In 2008 the U.S. House of Representatives issued an apology to African Americans for the practice of slavery and subsequent Jim Crow laws. In the same year, the Australian government issued a formal apology to its aboriginal peoples for policies that "inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss". In South Africa, the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” was tasked with responding to past wrongdoing through discovering and publishing the truth about the past, and through giving victims a forum, as well as (in theory) reparations. This conference explores certain moral issues arising from the above and similar responses to past wrongdoing, with a focus, but not an exclusive focus, on group wrongdoing.

Questions to be addressed by the conference include (but are not limited to) the following:

· How should we respond to past atrocities?

· Is the notion of collective guilt defensible?

· Does accepting an apology where there have been no reparations compromise the victims?

· Are reparations still required generations after the original victims of atrocity have died? What alternatives are there to reparations?

· What are the moral obligations of the descendents of the perpetrators of atrocity to the descendents of the victims of atrocity?

Deadline for submission of papers: 30 March 2011

Papers should be sent to Yhesmien.Hill@wits.ac.za <Yhesmien.Hill@wits.ac.za> , and should be suitable for presentation in no more than 40 minutes (i.e. 3500 to 4000 words).

Enquiries: Dylan.Futter@wits.ac.za <Dylan.Futter@wits.ac.za> or Lucy.Allais@wits.ac.za <Lucy.Allais@wits.ac.za> .

Link to blogg

Mats Burström will there give a talk about the role and responsibility of the professional expert within cultural heritage management. Link to conference home page

Arranged by Staffan Ericson, Amanda Lagerkvist and Paul Achter at Media- & Communication Studies and the RJ- funded project The Times of Television at MKV/SH. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the department.

"Media Witnessing and the Perpetual Ripeness of Time", Paul Frosh and Amit Pinchevski, Department of Communication and Journalism

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Abstract

November 25, 11.15: Professor Susan Wright (Copenhagen) lectures on "'Humboldt'

- Humbug! Contemporary Mobilisations of 'Humboldt' as a Discourse to

Support the Corporatisation and Marketisation of Universities and to

Disparage Alternatives." Link to lecture

November 25, 11.15: Professor Mitchell G. Ash (Vienna) lectures on "From Berlin

(or Göttingen) to Bologna and beyond: Humboldt (with others) and 'Humboldt',

past and present." Link to lecture

Link to Symposium

Link to Ruin Memories homepage: http://ruinmemories.org/

Symposium and literary discussion in Lund and Malmö Thursday December 2, 2010

Slavenka Drakulic, Wien/Stockholm, writer; Ulf Peter Hallberg, Berlin, writer; Evelina Kelbetcheva, Sofia, Associate Professor of History, American University of Bulgaria; Fausta Marjanovic, Umeå, writer; Sanimir Resic, Malmö, Associate Professor of East and Central European Studies, Head of Department of the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University; Dzenan Sahovic, Umeå, lecturer in Political Science, Umeå University; Spyros Sofos, London, Senior Researcher in International Conflict, Kingston University London; Umut Özkirimli, Istanbul, Professor of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University

Organizers:

Centre For European Studies at Lund University, Citizens without Boundaries and Inkonst supported by Stiftelsen framtidens kultur

Link to Program

In this talk, Gary Shapiro will discuss three conceptions of geophilosophy and geopolitics - those of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Franz Rosenzweig. He explores fundamental relations and contrasts between the ideas of world (Hegel), human-earth (Nietzsche), and globus (Rosenzweig). The questions to be developed and interrogated have to do with the priority of the state-form in Hegel's philosophy of world-history, the tension between state and nomad in Nietzsche's geophilosophy, and the absolute finitude of the globe (Globus) as the impetus and goal of what Rosenzweig calls a world-historical theory of space.

Gary Shapiro is Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Richmond.

His publications include Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying (Chicago, 2003),

Earthwards:Robert Smithson and Art After Babel (California, 1995),

Alcyone: Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women (SUNY, 1991),

Nietzschean Narratives (Indiana, 1989).

Shapiro has held fellowships from the School of Criticism and Theory, American Council of Learned Societies, National Humanities Center, Rockefeller Center at Bellagio (Italy), and Clark Art Institute.

About the book:

The political make-up of the contemporary world changes with such rapidity that few attempts have been made to consider with adequate care, the nature and value of the concept of sovereignty. What exactly is meant when one speaks about the acquisition, preservation, infringement or loss of sovereignty? This book revisits the assumptions underlying the applications of this fundamental category, as well as studying the political discourses in which it has been embedded. Bringing together historians, constitutional lawyers, political philosophers and experts in international relations, Sovereignty in Fragments seeks to dispel the illusion that there is a unitary concept of sovereignty of which one could offer a clear definition. This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of international relations, international law and the history of political thought.

Contributors: Hent Kalmo, Quentin Skinner, Denis Baranger, Pärtel Piirimäe, Jens Bartelson, Stephen D. Krasner, Michel Troper, Neil MacCormick, Patrick Praet, Jüri Lipping, Antonio Negri, Martti Koskenniemi.

Available in december 2010

Link to Cambridge University Press

September 17 Marcia Sá Cavalcante Shuback will hold the opening lecture "Notes on Abstract Hermeneutics" in the Abert J. Fitzgibbons Lecture series at the Philosphy Department at Boston College.

Link to Abert J. Fitzgibbons Lecture series at Boston College

In her new book, Det sublimas politik: Emancipatorisk estetik i 1800-talets konstnärsromaner ("The Politics of the Sublime: Emancipatory Aesthetics in 19th Century Artist Novels") Fjelkestam argues that the male gendering of the sublime in the 18th century had not only aesthetic consequences but also political ones. For instance, the male prerogative of experiencing the sublime became an essential part in the construction of the ideal citizen, hence resulting in yet another way of shutting women out from the political arena of the new nation states. But in artist novels from the 19th century, by and about women, the politics of the sublime receive different representations: Madame de Staël places the sublime experience as the start for societal change, Fanny Lewald makes the sublime moment call upon political action, and Louisa May Alcott popularizes the sublime by politicizing the sentimental.

Det sublimas politik: Emancipatorisk estetik i 1800-talets konstnärsromaner (Göteborg/Stockholm: Makadam 2010)

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Department of Historical and Heritage Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2011-2013

With support from the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and the Faculty of Humanities, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies is able to offer a two-year Post Doctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship runs from March 2011 to February 2013.

As one of South Africa’s most prominent centres of historical research, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies is joint host of a major international research project on ‘The Making of Modern Southern Africa, 1867- 1899: Local and Global Perspectives’. Encompassing established historians at leading universities in South Africa, Europe and the United Kingdom, the project seeks to recruit an outstanding young scholar interested in researching and writing on any aspect of its wider aims.

The successful candidate will enjoy every opportunity of working with members of the international network in the course of developing her/his own research. Applicants must hold a doctorate (obtained in the last five years ) or provide a supervisor's letter indicating that a result is expected before the end of January 2011 .

Applications should include a covering letter, a 1 - 2 page explanation of what the applicant hopes to contribute to the project , a CV , and the names of three academic referees.

For further details, contact Professor Johan Bergh (johan.bergh@up.ac.za, +27-12-420 3749/+27-83 9688229)

Closing date: 1 November 2010

Link to full interview (39 min.).

Link to Bigthink homepage.

The seminar will be held at the Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Eng 2-1022 (Seminarierummet), October 8, 13-15.

Contact: sharon.rider@filosofi.uu.se

"Archival Time(s)"

Abstract: Inspired by artistic practice in modernism, media-theoretical analysis focuses on the message of the medium itself. Applied to memory agencies and especially the ,digital archive', this method demands not only a close analysis of its different technology but a new interpretation of its different epistemological and aesthetical dimension as well. While the traditional archival format (spatial order, classification) will in many ways necessarily persist, the new archive is radically temporalized, ephemeral, multisensual, corresponding with a dynamic user culture which is less concerned with records for eternity but with order by fluctuation. New kinds of search engines will not only answer the needs of media arts but develop into a new "art of the archive" itself.

Wolfgang Ernst is Professor and Chair (Media Theories), Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. His books include: Das Rumoren der Archive: Ordnung aus Unordnung, (2002, in Swedish as Sorlet från arkiven, 2008), M.edium F.oucault. Weimarer Vorlesungen über Archive, Archäologie, Monumente und Medien, (2000), Im Namen von Geschichte: Sammeln, speichern, (er)zählen (a thesis on the infrastructure of memory, 2003), Das Gesetz des Gedächtnisses. Medien und Archive am Ende (des 20. Jahrhunderts) (2007). Co-author of: Semën Karsakov: Ideenmaschine. Von der Homöopathie zum Computer (2007, with Wladimir Velminski). Co-editor of: Suchbilder.Visuelle Kultur zwischen Algorithmen und Archiven (2003, with Stefan Heidenreich and Ute Holl), and: Computing in Russia. The history of computer devices and information technology revealed (2001, with Georg Trogemann and Alexander Nitussov). Among several articles: "Logistik der Bibliothek" (on erotic and illegal books at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich) in: Der" Giftschrank". Erotik, Sexualwissenschaft, Politik und Literatur. "Remota": Die weggesperrten Bücher der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, ed. Stephan Kellner (2002).

See also: Geert Lovink's interview with Wolfgang Ernst

Contact: Ina Blom

Professor IFIKK Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas University of Oslo Box 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo, Norway

ina.blom@ifikk.uio.no

+47 41688266

Marit Grøtta Postdoktor i allmenn litteraturvitenskap Institutt for litteratur, områdestudier og europeiske språk (ILOS) Universitetet i Oslo Pb. 1003 Blindern,

0315 +47 22 84 40 56

marit.grotta@ilos.uio.no

Once upon time, film scholars haunted archives and libraries in search of tangible source material. Only in the 1980’s, did scholarly interest in this area of study start gravitating towards archives, concurrent the surge of video culture and new festival venues. Students of film today often believe that “everything” is available on the Web and, thus, can be “googled”. If not “there”—it doesn’t exist. In such an ideal world, cultural heritage and contemporary mass culture are well co-mingled and one can merrily shop around on the laptop, iPhone or Blackbery, save time, download primary and secondary material (legally or otherwise), and leave archives and libraries behind. Or can we? Is Web-archivism merely a publicity stunt which does a disservice to new media cinema studies if it encourages scholars to bypass “real” archives? Or does digital archiving, as an appetizer of sorts, prompt students to explore material in old-school archives? And does a focus on the Web within archives divert funding from urgent, but less glamorous needs, such as preserving cellulose nitrate film?

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Ruin was invited by The Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, which regularly organizes academic and business-oriented seminars.

2010 CBS will host a new MPP seminar series to which a number of international professors will be invited to give their perspectives on action in contemporary thought, this Spring under the theme of "Philosopies of Management".

Watch Hans Ruin's, "The Past's Present" lecture: Video link (56 min.)

Walter Mignolo will visit Södertörn University October 4 for a public lecture entitled ”Not All Memories Go Back to Greece: Recent Radical Transformation in ‘Historical’ Consciousness”. The lecture deals with the the colonization of time (the invention of a Eurocentric Master-Narrative) and the colonization of space (the invention of the New World) during the Renaissance.

He is the author of numerous books on various aspects of history and coloniality, including Local histories/Global designs (2000), The Darker Side of the Renaissance (2003) and The Idea of Latin America (2005).

Mignolo received his Ph.D. in semiotics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Since 1993, he has been the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, and has joint appointments in Cultural Anthropology and Romance Studies.

Mignolo is also a member of the international board of experts that contributes to the Time, Memory and Representation Program located at Södertörn University, supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Link to Södertörn University Lecture

Contact:

Prof. Hans Ruin, Director, email: hans.ruin@sh.se

Andrus Ers, Research Secretary, email: andrus.ers@sh.se

Phone: +46 8 608 47 10

Peter Aronsson and Johan Hegardt will participate in Session II, which deals with the role of national mauseums in national identity formation. Ulla Manns will participate in Session III which deals with the relation between national and global historical paradigms and the responsibility of the historian.

The conference will be held in swedish.

Peter Aronsson: "Förhandlingen om historia på Nationalmuséer. Svenska val i europeisk kontext."

Johan Hegardt: "Historia i framtiden. Det kosmopolitiska museets möjligheter."

Ulla Manns: "Vems paradigm? Vems ansvar?"

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Manns will also present her ongoing research on "Memory and Historical Narration in the Making of Feminism" at the Department of Gender Studies at Södertörn University, September 14 15-17, PA.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: III AUTUMN CONFERENCE OF THE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN CULTURAL THEORY Time in Culture: Mediation and Representation Tartu, Estonia October 28–30, 2010 This year the international autumn conference of the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory (CECT) focuses on the topic of time as a category which, in every respect, touches upon human agency and entity. Issues of past, present, future and the culture of history (time) are symptomatic to our era. This topic also enables us to intertwine the viewpoints of the different disciplines of cultural research. The autumn conference aims at critical and reflexive discussions on the tendencies of how time functions within culture. An additional starting point would be the ways different media construct time within the framework of private, institutional, group specific, etc., interests. The points of departure for discussion would be the following interconnected aspects of the construction and representation of time/temporality: • The mediality and intertextuality of time; specific genres of mediating time, their sociocultural, technical, etc., development; • Agency, private and public aspects in the production and reception of temporality; empowerment and domination in the construction of temporality; • Institutional (museum, archive, school, church, etc.) and group specific usage of time and its means of mediation; • The domain of the category of time in social and culture studies; the concept and discussion of time in different disciplines and approaches; how we use concepts based on time to define our objects of study, how the times on object- and meta-levels are related. The keynote speakers are Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University, USA), Gunther Kress (University of London, UK) and Carmen Leccardi (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy). The aim of the conference is to dislocate the established academic borderlines and – focusing on the consciousness of time in culture – encourage research that leads to presentations employing the possibilities of several disciplines. Joint presentations by researchers from different research fields are preferred. Please send the abstract of your presentation (200–500 words) by June 15, 2010, to cect@ut.ee. You will be notified of the acceptance of your contribution and sent the preliminary programme in early July 2010. A conference fee is not required but there will be no reimbursement for accommodation and travel costs for conference guests. More information about accommodation choices will be provided in July 2010. Selected papers based on conference presentations will be published in the CECT compendium. Please kindly forward this CfP to whom it may concern. Additional information: Monika Tasa, cect@ut.ee

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The project is placed at the museum, which gives the researchers access to the museum, the storerooms, archives, staff and every day work. The new museology is the theoretical point of departure and the project focus on the museum’s part in a social, historical and political context and its production of meaning in the Swedish society. The Museum of National Antiquities was established in 1866. Bror Emil Hildebrand was one of the main characters behind the museum. Hildebrand was a close friend to Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, the founder of the three-age system, a system that Hildebrand used at the museum to order the objects but also in his plan over the exhibitions. The museum was placed on the ground floor of the National museum in Stockholm, a museum that opened the same year. In the end of 1930 the museum moved to its current position on Narvavägen. A large archaeological and medieval exhibition opened in 1943. The exhibition was framed in a new modern and functionalistic setting. Modernism and functionalism became important in post-war Swedish society. The employees at the museum played an important part in the modern Swedish heritage management from the beginning and the museum has through its exhibitions shaped the idea of Swedishness during a major part of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

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Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen

THE AIM OF EUNAMUS is to explore the dynamics of national museums and their roles in a changing Europe. What are the institutional trajectories and contemporary forces that shape national museum representations and negotiations? What views of identity, citizenship and knowledge do they produce? What is the balance between change and continuity or between European, national and regional forces, between claims of universality and virtues of unity, or between civic enhancement, public education and city branding? This three-year research project approaches these questions with a series of thematic studies. Eight leading university institutions and their associated researchers will pursue multidisciplinary research to further understand the creation and power of European national museums.

MAPPING AND FRAMING INSTITUTIONS 1750–2010. The public opening of the project is followed by a two day workshop that sets the framework for the project’s first thematic study: a historical and comparative analysis of the various trajectories for national museums.

For more information please visit: www.eunamus.eu and www.nationalmuseum.se/forskning

The project aims at analyzing constructions of memory, identity and space with 19th century Feminism (here regarded as a movement), taking its point of empirical departure in a vast source material such as publications, archives, exhibitions and libraries, all devoted to the so called Woman Question.

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Södertörn University, Alfred Nobels allé 7, Flemingsberg

Open Lecture, Södertörn University, MB 416, May 28, 13 – 15

Hayden White will visit Södertörn University May 28 for a public lecture entitled “The Holocaust from the Outside”. The lecture deals with the issues of history, memory and representation in the context of the debate over the ethics and esthetics of writing about the Holocaust, which he has been involved in for the last twenty years, notably in debates with Carlo GInzburg.

Hayden White is University Professor Emeritus at the University of California Santa Cruz, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is also one of the co-founders of the History of Consciousness Program at University of Santa Cruz. His works (e. g. Metahistory (1973), Tropics of Discourse (1978), The Content of the Form (1987)) have had a profound influence on the practice and conceptualization of various disciplines in the field of humanities.

White is a member of the international board of experts that contributes to the Time, Memory and Representation Program located at Södertörn University, supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

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Prof. Hans Ruin, Director, email: hans.ruin@sh.se

Andrus Ers, Research Secretary, email: andrus.ers@sh.se

Phone: +46 8 608 47 10

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