[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: International Conference on Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage, Istanbul 2011

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International Conference on

MATERIALITY, MEMORY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

(Please visit http://www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com)



A conference organized by the Department of Humanities and Social

Sciences, Istanbul Technical University and the Department of

Anthropology, Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey on May 25-29,

2011.





Keynote Speakers:

Ian Hodder (Stanford University)

Richard Handler (University of Virginia)

Ayfer Bartu Candan (Bogaziçi
 University)

Charles Stewart (University College London)





We are organizing a conference on the interrelated themes of memory,

materiality and cultural heritage that will appeal to scholars from

the fields of archaeology, anthropology and history.  We invite papers

that particularly address the uses and management of ancient sites,

monuments and objects at the local and global scales from different

social spaces and sectors of societies such as houses,

ritual-architectural spaces, netscape, museums, touristic scapes,

media industry, ethnoscapes and nation-states.  Many different

processes play a role in the particular contemporary uses of ancient

objects and monuments such as the making of public/official or

alternative histories and education, nationalism, cultural

preservation efforts, place-making, object and profit oriented

capitalist material practices, violence, archaeological practices, and

the politics of the production and/or erasure of memory about the

past, present and future.   Despite the efforts of countries to

geographically and culturally 'preserve' ancient monuments and

objects, there has been a process of deterritorialization in the sense

that they constantly move across space and time in the form of actual

reproduction in different socio-spatial contexts, web-based

information and computer simulation.  In these new contexts they are

reappropriated and attributed new meanings and senses and/or

intentions to evoke the ancient potent meanings, becoming objects of

new materialities and also containers and/or producers of new

immaterialities.  They become part and parcel of new historicities.



In addition to particular case studies we are specifically interested

in papers that address theoretical and methodological questions.  How

can we theorize about contemporary uses of ancient monuments and

objects? What is the unit of analysis and how is it methodologically

constructed? From an analytical perspective, how can we gauge the

historical traffic of these objects across space? What are our

analytical boundaries?



The conference organizers plan to publish the conference proceedings.



Papers are expected to contribute to the following thematic areas

related to the main topic of contemporary uses of ancient sites,

monuments and objects:



Commodification and Objectification

Materiality

Symbolic Meaning

Collective Memory

Senses and memory

Senses and Home

Collection and Destruction of Objects

History Production

Media

Religion

Nationalism

Neo-colonialism

Place-making

Technology

Cultural Heritage Preservation



Abstract Submission

Abstracts for individual papers and sessions should be submitted by

FRIDAY DECEMBER 17th 2010.
 Abstracts of no more than 350 words in

English should be sent via email to the addresses listed below. Please

include your name, affiliation, e-mail, telephone number(s), and

postal address. The authors of the accepted abstracts will be notified

by JANUARY 20th  2011.



Manuscript Submission

Once the abstracts are accepted the full papers must be submitted by

May 25th, 2011 in order to be
considered for publication in an edited

volume.



Further details and updates will be posted on our conference website

at  www.materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com



Please email presentation abstracts to:

info at materialitymemoryculturalheritage.com



Please email questions/comments to:

Sevil Baltali Tirpan: sbaltali at itu.edu.tr

Aybil Göker: aybilgoker at gmail.com



      
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