POSTMEMORY- 2021 - (Online) Postmemory and the Contemporary World

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Category postmemory, interdisciplinary, identity, psychology, sociology, social sciences, culture studies, film studies, literature, history, trauma

Deadline: February 12, 2021 | Date: February 25, 2021

Venue/Country: Gdansk, Poland

Updated: 2021-01-14 07:12:01 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

We are interested in all aspects of postmemory: in its individual and collective dimensions, in the past and in the present-day world, and in its potential to direct the future. Whose memory is postmemory: that of generations, communities, nations or families? How is it maintained and passed on? What is the role of imagination in its creation? What is remembered and what is forgotten? Is it always the memory of traumatic experience? How can it be taught and studied? These are some of the questions that inspired the idea of the conference.

Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to:

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I. Individual experiences

· Postmemory and trauma

· Postmemory and recovery

· Postmemory and imagination

· Postmemory and artefacts

· Postmemory and personal memories

II. Collective experiences

· Postmemory and its sources

· Postmemory and mythology

· Generational postmemory

· Postmemory and social non-acceptance

· Postmemory and solidarity

· Postmemory and territory

III. Remembering and Forgetting

· Postmemory and forced forgetting

· Postmemory and forced remembering

· Teaching postmemory

· Negotiating postmemory

· Studying postmemory

· Forgetting/remembering for recovery

· Postmemory and its purpose

· Postmemory and allegiances

IV. Representations

· Testimonies and memories

· Genres of Postmemory

· Postmemory in literature

· Postmemory in film

· Postmemory in theatre

· Postmemory in visual arts

· Creating as experience

· Postmemory and urban planning

· Postmemory and urban art

· Rural Postmemory

· Postmemory in the nature

· Materialism of postmemory

· Nonhuman postmemory

V. Feelings and Practices

· Sadness of postmemory

· Fear of postmemory

· Postmemory and nostalgia

· Postmemory and grief

· Postmemory and loneliness

· Postmemory and change

· Living postmemory

· Rituals of postmemory

VI. Institutionalization

· Postmemory and nation-state

· Postmemory and identity politics

· Postmemory and ideology

· Postmemory and religion

· Postmemory and punishment systems

· Postmemory and army

· Postmemory and school

· Postmemory and museums

· Monuments of postmemory

· Sites and cities of postmemory

· Economy of postmemory

· Language of postmemory

VII. The Contemporary World

· Postmemory and postcomunism

· Postcolonialism, decolonization and postmemory

· Neoliberalism and postmemory

· Postmemory and migration

· Postmemory and globalization

· Postmemory and nationalism

· Postmemory and new media

· Postmemory and political correctness

· Postmemory and natural disasters

Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations, together with a short biographical note, by 12 February 2021 to: conferencememorygmail.com

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Confirmation of acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2021.

The conference language is English.

Note:

As our online conference will be international, we will consider different time zones of our Participants.

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