[Discussion] UPDATE: Nostalgia and Cultural Memory (grad) (12/13/04; 3/4/05-3/5/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Please note that the DATES of the conference have changed
(from March 11-12 to March 4-5)
to accomodate our keynote speaker, George Elliot Clarke.

Nostalgia and Cultural Memory
A Conference for Graduate Students
March 4-5, 2005
Department of English,UniversityofVictoria

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:

=95 temporality and the end of history
=95 nostalgia for the future
=95 the nation and nostalgia
=95 the revision of history
=95 memory and narrative
=95 institutional memory
=95 deconstructionism and nostalgia for the construction
=95 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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