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Call for Papers "Upheavals of Memory: Defining, Imagining, Creating, Contesting" International Postgraduate Conference Humanities Institute of Ireland (HII), University College Dublin Dublin (Ireland) 27-28 April 2007 __________________________________________________ The aim of this two-day conference is to examine the discourses in which memory is defined, imagined, created, and contested. The focus of the event is to examine the identical, oppositional, complementary, and contradictory boundaries of the powers of remembrance across various disciplines. This event focuses on the overarching theme of the initial HII research programme, Identity, Memory and Meaning in the Twenty-First Century, by tangling the issue of the upheavals of memory from a variety of intersecting discourses including, but not limited to, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, language, literature, linguistics, history, art history, classical studies, film studies, geography, and music. The intention here is to draw together contributions from the wider spectrum of the academic circle in a way that will initiate and foster further fertile research, creative expression, and meaningful collaboration. This following list, which is by no means exhaustive, contains some of the issues the conference aims to address: - The study of past ritual, practices, and ways of describing the past. - The blurred relationship between the real past and the imagined past. - The contention between a subjective narrative that employs lived experience and poetic conceit and a historical narrative that calls for critical distance and factual documentation. - The political and socio-cultural contexts and conditions in which various groups clash for a specific version of public commemoration. - The inclusion and exclusion of particularistic memories into historical narrative. - The discontinuity, adjustment, and selectivity of the past. - The construction and deconstruction of memory symbols and their meaning. - The replacement of the past by the extended present and the blurring of the relations between public time and private time. - The antagonisms of the ontological status of time and temporal experience. - Past representations of urban life and culture. - The nature and force of autobiography and personal testimony. The conference language will be English, and each paper will be allotted twenty minutes of presentation time. Please e-mail an abstract of approximately 250 words to the organizing committee. Please include a separate page with the paper's title, author's name, complete mailing address, institutional affiliation, and e-mail address. Submission Deadline: Friday, February 16th 2007. Contact: Organizing Committee UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland Humanities Building University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.ucd.ie/hii/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
