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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">International Conference on<br>
MATERIALITY, MEMORY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE<br>
(Please visit <a href="http://www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com" target="_blank">http://www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com</a>)<br>
<br>
A conference organized by the Department of Humanities and Social<br>
Sciences, Istanbul Technical University and the Department of<br>
Anthropology, Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey on May 25-29,<br>
2011.<br>
<br>
<br>
Keynote Speakers:<br>
Ian Hodder (Stanford University)<br>
Richard Handler (University of Virginia)<br>
Ayfer Bartu Candan (Bogaziçi
University)<br>
Charles Stewart (University College London)<br>
<br>
<br>
We are organizing a conference on the interrelated themes of memory,<br>
materiality and cultural heritage that will appeal to scholars from<br>
the fields of archaeology, anthropology and history. We invite papers<br>
that particularly address the uses and management of ancient sites,<br>
monuments and objects at the local and global scales from different<br>
social spaces and sectors of societies such as houses,<br>
ritual-architectural spaces, netscape, museums, touristic scapes,<br>
media industry, ethnoscapes and nation-states. Many different<br>
processes play a role in the particular contemporary uses of ancient<br>
objects and monuments such as the making of public/official or<br>
alternative histories and education, nationalism, cultural<br>
preservation efforts, place-making, object and profit oriented<br>
capitalist material practices, violence, archaeological practices, and<br>
the politics of the production and/or erasure of memory about the<br>
past, present and future. Despite the efforts of countries to<br>
geographically and culturally 'preserve' ancient monuments and<br>
objects, there has been a process of deterritorialization in the sense<br>
that they constantly move across space and time in the form of actual<br>
reproduction in different socio-spatial contexts, web-based<br>
information and computer simulation. In these new contexts they are<br>
reappropriated and attributed new meanings and senses and/or<br>
intentions to evoke the ancient potent meanings, becoming objects of<br>
new materialities and also containers and/or producers of new<br>
immaterialities. They become part and parcel of new historicities.<br>
<br>
In addition to particular case studies we are specifically interested<br>
in papers that address theoretical and methodological questions. How<br>
can we theorize about contemporary uses of ancient monuments and<br>
objects? What is the unit of analysis and how is it methodologically<br>
constructed? From an analytical perspective, how can we gauge the<br>
historical traffic of these objects across space? What are our<br>
analytical boundaries?<br>
<br>
The conference organizers plan to publish the conference proceedings.<br>
<br>
Papers are expected to contribute to the following thematic areas<br>
related to the main topic of contemporary uses of ancient sites,<br>
monuments and objects:<br>
<br>
Commodification and Objectification<br>
Materiality<br>
Symbolic Meaning<br>
Collective Memory<br>
Senses and memory<br>
Senses and Home<br>
Collection and Destruction of Objects<br>
History Production<br>
Media<br>
Religion<br>
Nationalism<br>
Neo-colonialism<br>
Place-making<br>
Technology<br>
Cultural Heritage Preservation<br>
<br>
<b style="">Abstract Submission<br>
</b>Abstracts for individual papers and sessions should be submitted by<br>
<b style="">FRIDAY DECEMBER 17th 2010</b>.
Abstracts of no more than 350 words in<br>
English should be sent via email to the addresses listed below. Please<br>
include your name, affiliation, e-mail, telephone number(s), and<br>
postal address. The authors of the accepted abstracts will be notified<br>
by JANUARY 20th 2011.<br>
<br>
<b style="">Manuscript Submission<br>
</b>Once the abstracts are accepted the full papers must be submitted by<br>
<b style="">May 25th, 2011</b> in order to be
considered for publication in an edited<br>
volume.<br>
<br>
Further details and updates will be posted on our conference website<br>
at <a href="http://www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com" target="_blank">www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com</a><br>
<br>
Please email presentation abstracts to:<br>
<a href="mailto:info@materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com" target="_blank">info@materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com</a><br>
<br>
Please email questions/comments to:<br>
Sevil Baltali Tirpan: <a href="mailto:sbaltali@itu.edu.tr" target="_blank">sbaltali@itu.edu.tr</a><br>
Aybil Göker: <a href="mailto:aybilgoker@gmail.com" target="_blank">aybilgoker@gmail.com</a></span>
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