The full programme for our 2022 symposium has been released! The symposium will run as a hybrid event on 26-27 May, with the in-person part taking place at the University of Exeter.
If you have not already done so, please register your attendance here.
We are pleased to announce that we have extended the deadline for our call for papers to 31 March 2022. See the full call for papers here.
For any questions, please get in touch with memorystudiesSW@gmail.com
We are delighted to release the call for papers for this year’s symposium! The call is open to all postgraduate students and early career researchers in any discipline, and we particularly welcome proposals from artists and practitioners in any field whose work broadly relates to memory.
Call for Papers:
Evocative Memories: Media, Materiality, Affect – An Interdisciplinary Symposium
26-27th May 2022
Hybrid event: Online/University of Exeter
Memory is both evoked – by things, places, people, words, images, events – and evocative in its own right, prompting thoughts and feelings that may connect or distance us from the past. Everyday objects and material culture play a vital role in triggering and expressing memories, and reveal, as Sherry Turkle (2007) puts it, the intensity of our connection to the world of things – but how does this work and what are the processes involved? How is memory mediated through material (and non-material) forms, spaces and times? And what are the feelings, emotions and affects that engender memory and are in turn evoked by it?
The Memory Studies Research Cluster, a cross-disciplinary research cluster of the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, is inviting submissions for 20-minute papers, presentations, talks and workshops which critically examine our themes of memory, media, materiality and affect. The symposium will run as a hybrid event, welcoming people both online and in-person at the University of Exeter.
We encourage submissions from those working in, but not restricted to, the following areas: history; anthropology; film studies; fine-art practice; literature; museology; postcolonial studies; philosophy; photography; sociology; translation; visual cultures; and human rights. We would also like to hear from those not working in academia, including artists, writers, museum professionals and community activists. This year, we are also particularly keen to hear contributions from psychologists, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists, as a way of bridging the divide between the humanities and sciences in the study of memory.
We invite submissions on the following themes:
Please send abstracts/proposals (max. 200 words) and a short bio (max. 100 words), and stating whether you prefer to present online or in-person, to memorystudiesSW@gmail.com DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 16 March 2022.
Join us for our first lunchtime seminar, which will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 10th November, 1-2pm. We are looking forward to hearing the following presentations:
‘Conquest by Cattle’, Felix Sadebeck, University of Exeter
‘Archive and Poetry before Holocaust’ (TBC), Biljana Markovic, University of Vienna
‘Feminist Perspectives on Kurdish Cinema, Memory and Resistance’, Tebessüm Yilmaz-Wilke, Humboldt University of Berlin
Please email ir299@exeter.ac.uk for more details, including the link to join. We look forward to seeing you there!
The programme for the rest of the series is also now available:
The SWWDTP Memory Studies Research Cluster is looking for contributions of short (5-
10 minute) presentations to its new monthly work-in-progress lunchtime seminar series.
These seminars will be held on the second Wednesday of the month, and will be an
opportunity for PhD students and other researchers across the field of memory studies to
meet, discuss and receive feedback on their research, or simply discuss a reading or theme
they are interested in. They are intended to be very informal and friendly, and we
particularly welcome people just starting out in their research.
Meetings will be held online via zoom, and everyone is welcome to attend. Please email
ir299@exeter.ac.uk if you would like to be added to the mailing list.
10th November 2021, 1-2pm
8th December 2021, 1-2pm
12th January 2022, 1-2pm
9th February 2022, 1-2pm
9th March 2022, 1-2pm
13th April 2022, 1-2pm
11th May 2022, 1-2pm
We are looking for 2-3 presentations each month. If you would like to present, please send an email to ir299@exeter.ac.uk giving a title (no abstract needed) and stating which date(s) you would prefer.
We are delighted to announce the full programme for the 2021 symposium, ‘Memory, Accountability, and Representations of the Past’. The programme can be found on the symposium event page or can be downloaded here.
Free tickets for both the general public and DTP students are now also available through Eventbrite.
Due to an excellent reponse we have extended the symposium to two days.
We are please to announce the our plenary of keynote speakers (21 April 2021)
Full programme to be announced soon. Due to such a great response to the CFP we have decided to run this symposium over two days. The Eventbrite page where free tickets can be ordered will be available soon. There will be General Public and DTP student tickets available.
Memory Accountability and Representations of the Past
We are pleased to announce our postponed conference. Deadline to submit abstracts is 15 January 2021.
Debates on what and how we remember, and who decides the form these
memories take, are widespread. Even within “Memory studies” as a field, there are
multiple perspectives which can frame understanding. Memory, in its pluralities,
can challenge historical master narratives of history and is one way in which
society can demand accountability in the present and for the future.
The Memory Studies Research Cluster, a cross-disciplinary research cluster of the
South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, is inviting submissions for
20-minute papers, presentations, talks and workshops which critically examine our
themes of memory, accountability and representations of the past. We encourage
submissions from those working in, but not restricted to, the following areas:
history; anthropology; film studies; fine-art practice; literature; museology;
postcolonial studies; photography; sociology; translation; visual cultures; and
human rights. We would also like to hear from those not working in academia,
including artists, writers, museum professionals and community activists.
We invite submissions on the following themes.
● Re-thinking representations or interpretations of the past
● Occluded, excluded, forgotten or repressed histories
● Decolonisation in public spaces e.g. museums, art or literature
● Memorialisation and accountability in urban spaces or the physical environment
● Memorialisation and accountability in digital spaces or visual culture
● Postcolonialism and representation
Please send abstracts/proposals (max. 200 words) along with a short bio (max 100
words) to memorystudiesSW@gmail.com by 15th January 2021.
Symposium has now been extended to two days 21-22 April 2021
Please Note: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic this event has been postponed until 2021, date TBC. We will send out a new call for papers once we have a new date planned. Thank you to all who have already submitted proposals or abstracts, these will still be considered.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Memory, Accountability and Representations of the Past – An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Debates on what and how we remember, and who decides the form these memories take, are widespread. Even within “Memory studies” as a field, there are multiple perspectives which can frame understanding.
Scholar and critic Andreas Huyssen states: “Rep-presentation always comes after, even though some media will try to provide us with the delusion of pure presence.” In our digital age, the “immediate, abundant, pervasive, perhaps overwhelming, and apparently accessible” (Hoskins, 2017) form of new media shape the past’s representations. Memory, in its pluralities, can challenge historical master narratives of history and is one way in which society can demand accountability in the present and for the future.
In her seminal essay “Can the subaltern speak?”, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak concluded that the historically marginalised and oppressed “cannot speak” (1988). Spaces are opening, however, which attempt to promote new ways of thinking about the past in practice and theory. They forefront occluded, excluded and repressed histories and are central to demands to decolonise public spaces, museums and other institutions.
The Memory Studies Research Cluster, a cross-disciplinary research cluster of the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, is inviting submissions for 20-minute papers, presentations, talks and workshops which critically examine our themes of memory, accountability and representations of the past. We encourage submissions from those working in, but not restricted to, the following areas: history; anthropology; film studies; fine-art practice; literature; museology; postcolonial studies; photography; sociology; translation; visual cultures; and human rights. We would also like to hear from those not working in academia, including artists, writers, museum professionals and community activists.
We invite submissions on the following themes:
Please send abstracts/proposals (max. 200 words) along with a short bio (max. 100 words) to memorystudiesSW@gmail.com Please note: we are currently awaiting plans for a new date, and will update this page as soon as we have any information.
Are you a PhD student funded by the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership?
If the answer is yes, then please consider submitting a proposal for a blog post on our website.
This invitation is open to any SWWDTP funded PhD student, whether or not you have previously been involved with the Memory Studies Research Cluster.
Possible topics for blog posts might include:
You can see a definition of memory studies on the Memory Studies Association website: https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/about_the_msa/
Submissions should be between 300 and 800 words, with at least one image in landscape or square format (for which you must obtain copyright). Shorter pieces will be considered if they incorporate several images. Please email memorystudiesSW@gmail.com either with a brief proposal or the full blog post. This is an ongoing call for submissions, so there is no deadline…
Please feel free to share this call-out with other DTP funded students.
