[Discussion] CFP: The Future of Memory: Holocaust and Trauma Studies (UK) (3/1/05; 11/10/05-11/12/05)

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CFP: The Future of Memory (3/1/2005; 11/10-11/12/2005)

The Future of Memory: An International Holocaust and Trauma Studies
Conference

Plenary Speakers:  Professor Cathy Caruth, Emory University
Professor Dan Stone, Royal Holloway University of London
Professor Susan Rubin Suleiman, Harvard University
Professor James Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Organised by:  English Research Institute (Dept of English),
Manchester Metropolitan University; The Institute for Social, Cultural
and Policy Research, University of Salford; Department of French
Studies, University of Manchester 10 * 12 November 2005

During the 1980s and 1990s, Holocaust and trauma studies emerged at the
forefront of interdisciplinary academic debate as scholars sought to
articulate and analyse the diverse inscriptions of traumatic memory in
cultural, social, psychic and political life. As a distinctly dynamic
project, the study of the Holocaust and trauma more generally has
established critical agendas that focus on the ethical parameters of
representing horrific events; the modes of transmission and lived
experience of traumatic history; the centrality of secondary, proxy or
vicarious witnessing; the generic diversity of survivor testimony; the
material cultures and landscapes of memory; the creative disorders of
memory; the dialectical relationship of remembering and forgetting; the
affective realms of memory and the politics of melancholy and mourning.

In the light of these diverse debates, the aim of this conference is to
reflect critically upon the memorial legacies and possible memorial
futures of Holocaust and traumatic experience.  The organizers are keen
for the conference to address the ways in which the traumatic memories
of the 20th and 21st centuries and their interdisciplinary
conceptualisation will change and exist beyond their/this time. Key
questions might include: which experiences and events can be remembered
and which will be forgotten? What kinds of memory might be transmitted
in the future? What form will memory take in the near and distant
future? Can memory ever secure a future for the past?

The organisers invite 300-word abstracts on topics broadly related to
the above questions from the fields of Architecture, Comparative and
Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, European Studies, Film and Media
Studies, Geography, History, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Visual
Arts, Women's and Gender Studies. Submission deadline for abstracts: 1st
March 2005.

Organisers: Rick Crownshaw (Manchester Metropolitan University), Jane
Kilby (University of Salford), Antony Rowland (University of Salford)
and Ursula Tidd (The University of Manchester).  For further
information, please contact Debbie Hughes, University of Salford,
Greater Manchester, UK, M5 4WT; email: d.hughes1@salford.ac.uk.



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