Memory Work: trabajo de memoria (colectivo)
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C/Montalegre nº 6 Barcelona
Metro Universitat & Catalunya
Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association
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Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association Copenhague
Copenhagen, 14-16 December 2017
Founded last year in Amsterdam, the Memory Studies Association (MSA) aims at institutionalizing memory studies as a research field that is able to provide fundamental knowledge about the importance and function of memories in the public and private realm. The MSA’s objective is to provide a central forum for developing, discussing, and exchanging ideas about the methodology and theory of the inter- and multi-disciplinary field of memory studies.
By addressing crucial questions about the challenges and future of memory studies, this year’s conference will continue the fruitful debates that began in Amsterdam. A starting point of our discussions is to further define the ‘third wave’ of memory studies: One of the central problems of memory studies today is to adjust to the increasing heterogeneity of remembering without losing sight of national and local memory formations. Even in our globalized world, legal and mental borders are far from dissolved. The growing number of nationalist movements in Europe point to the continued virility of the national framework of remembrance.
This conference wants to address “memory unbound” as well as specific personal, familial or national memories and their mutual interrelations. It seeks answers to questions such as: How can memory studies continue to conceptualize the deterritorialized, fluid and transnational aspects of collective memory without abolishing the validity of the founding ideas of memory studies? Acknowledging the fact that memories relate not only to the presence of the past but also to imaginations of the future, how can we define the productive power of memory? Should memory studies merely be perceived as descriptive or should it also have an impact on actual political debates?
Confirmed keynote speakers and participants of this conference include: Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University), filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer (“The Act of Killing” and “The Look of Silence”), Jan Gross (Princeton University), as well as Ann Rigney (University of Utrecht), Fionnuala Dillane (University College of Dublin), Stef Craps (University of Ghent), Daniel Levy (Stony Brook University, New York), Siobhan Kattago (University of Tartu), Astrid Erll (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia), Emilie Pine (University College of Dublin), Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (University of Lund), William Hirst (The New School, New York), Wulf Kansteiner (University of Aarhus), Silke Arnold-de Simine (Birkbeck, London).
The Memory Studies Association aims to be the central forum for scholars from around the world and across disciplines who are interested in memory studies. Its goal is to further establish and extend the status of memory studies as a field. As such, this second meeting of the association invites all those interested in being part of this important emerging enterprise. As an interdisciplinary forum for memory studies, we warmly welcome contributions from various research fields and explicitly invite transdisciplinary approaches.
Submissions of papers and panels can address but are not limited to:
- Memory of migration of refugees and workers
- Traumatic memories
- Ethics of memory
- Memory and the media
- Memory and the global
- Entangled or multidirectional memories.
- Psychology of Collective Memory
- Gendered memories
- Geography and the memory of sites/spaces
- Sociological approaches to memory
- Memory in the digital age
- Memory and cultural heritage
- Teaching memory studies
We would like to encourage both the submission of “traditional” academic papers and full panels, as well as innovative proposals for workshops, film screenings, roundtable discussions and more. Please contact the organizers if you would like to discuss ideas or have questions.
The submission system is now open and will close on 1st July 2017.
You can find more information about the conference and venue here.
Further questions can be addressed to Tea Sindbæk Andersen nxr333@hum.ku.dk or to Jessica Ortner ortner@hum.ku.dk
Francisco Ferrándiz “Anthropology on the Front Lines: Honoring the Work of Nancy Schemer-Hughes”
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Monday, May 1, 2017 – 08:00 to Tuesday, May 2, 2017 – 20:00
UC Berkeley Anthropology Department
Anthropology on the Front Lines: Honoring the Work of Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Distinguished Speakers:
- Marcelo Súarez-Orozco Dean Graduate School Education, UCLA
- Margaret Lock Bronfman Professor Emerita Social Medicine, McGill University
- Naomar Monteiro de Almeida-Filho President Federal University of Southern Bahia, Brazil
- Juan Thomas Ordóñez Professor University Rosario Bogotá
- Sherry B. Ortner Distinguished Professor UCLA
- Kimberly Theidon Henry Lear Chair in International Humanitarian Studies Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University
- Matthew Gutmann Director Brown University International Advanced Research Institutes
- Francisco J. Ferrándiz Senior Faculty Spanish National Research Council
- Kim Hopper Professor Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University
- Calin Goina Professor Babes-Bolay University Cluj Romania
- Donald Boström Swedish War Correspondent & Photographer
- Dr. Jorge Perez Avila Former Director National AIDS Program Cuba
- Meira Weiss Rose Chair Emerita Hebrew University Jerusalem
- Philippe Bourgois Director Social Medicine and the Humanities UCLA
- Gail Kligman Vice Provost International Institute UCLA
- Donna Goldstein Professor University of Colorado Boulder
- Misha Kline Assoc. Professor University of Oklahoma
- Zvika Orr Faculty & Program Director Jerusalem College of Technology
But I want to speak out: Making art from women’s testimonies
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Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal
Free entry
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Seizing Sovereignty (and República) on a Heritage Battlefield: Villalar de los Comuneros, 1521-2016
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Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal
Free entry
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Historicidad de los muertos
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Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal
Free entry.
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Memoria, fotografía y feminismo: Otra aproximación a la posguerra en España
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Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
Metro Suanzes & Ciudad Lineal
Free entry
Proyección de “El espejo de la memoria” y conservatorio sobre patrimonio y memoria
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C/Montalegre nº 6 Barcelona
Metro Universitat & Catalunya
Policies of historical memory
The underground past: exhumations and memory politics in Spain contemporary transnational and comparative perspective
Proyects:
PIE (CSIC) 200710I006
CSO2009-09681
CSO2012-32709
CSO2015-66104-R
COST IS1203 (ISTME)
H2020 REFLECTIVE-5-2015, ref. 693523 (UNREST)
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
Offices: 1F25 and 1F18
Albasanz 26-28.
Madrid 28037 (Spain)
politicasdelamemoria@gmail.com