[Discussion] CFP: Nostalgia and Cultural Memory (grad) (12/13/04; 3/11/05-3/12/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Nostalgia and Cultural Memory
A Conference for Graduate Students
March 11-12, 2005
Department of English, University of Victoria

This conference aims to explore the ways nostalgia and cultural memory
work in literature and broader historical, social and political
discourses. How does nostalgia colour our relationship to the past? What
role does nostalgia play in the establishment of cultural history? How
can we describe the feeling of anti-nostalgia? What motivates our desire
to preserve a cultural memory? We invite proposals for panels or papers
on any aspect of memory and nostalgia as represented, confronted or
engendered by literary narratives or other discourses. Proposed studies
might include, but are not limited to:
  temporality and the end of history
  nostalgia for the future
  the nation and nostalgia
  the revision of history
  memory and narrative
  institutional memory
  deconstructionism and nostalgia for the construction
  nostalgia and the literary canon

For more information, go to http://web.uvic.ca/~englgrad/conference

Proposals for panels should be 500 words in length and should include a
title. Abstracts for papers should be 250 words in length and should
include a title. All submissions should include full contact information
and a 50-word biographical note.
E-mail submissions ONLY to englconf@uvic.ca.

DEADLINE: December 13, 2004.



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