[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: "Memory, Memorials, and Media": Northeastern U Grad Student Conf. in World Hist., March 22-23, 2014

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From: Stacy Fahrenthold <fahrenthold.s at gmail.com>



CALL FOR PAPERS

“Memory, Memorials, and Media: Re-Imagining World History”


The Northeastern History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) invites
proposal submissions for its 6th annual graduate student conference to 
be held March 22-23, 2014 at Northeastern University, Boston MA.

The 2014 conference title is “Memory, Memorials, and Media: Re-Imagining
World History.” With this interdisciplinary theme, we hope to explore 
how memory is made, used, preserved, and accessed through a wide variety 
of mediums around the world and over time. We are particularly 
interested in how the collection of memory and the act of 
memorialization can be influenced by technology.

Submissions may engage directly with a variety of themes including:


    Concepts of identity;

    Places of contested memory;

    The capture, documentation, or display of memory;

    The role of historians, librarians, archivists, and teachers in the 
  act of preservation and pedagogy;

    Acts of commemoration, designation, rectification, and obliteration.


We also welcome papers that address themes such as nostalgia, 
imperialism and postcolonial studies, education and public engagement, 
cultural geography, psychology, art, literature and media studies—and 
that do so in trans-disciplinary or interdisciplinary ways.

We invite graduate students in degree programs in history and other
disciplines to present work on any of these topics or on others that
address the conference themes.

We recognize that many graduate students, particularly those working in
public history and digital history fields, often have projects that do 
not necessarily lend themselves to a traditional paper presentation. 
Therefore, we are encouraging those students to submit poster proposals. 
You may submit both a paper and a poster submission.

We also welcome panel proposals. Faculty are invited to volunteer as
chair/commentators in their research areas.


  Logistics/Conference Details:

When: March 22-23, 2014

Where: Northeastern University, Boston MA

Keynote: Dan Cohen, founding executive director of the Digital Public 
Library of America (formerly of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History 
and New Media at George Mason University). His keynote address is 
entitled “World History and the Global Digital Research Environment.”

Format of Presentations: Accepted presentations are typically divided 
into three-person panels. Each panelist will present their papers for
approximately fifteen to twenty minutes.

For consideration, please send the following documents to the program
committee at nugradconf at gmail.com <nugradconf at gmail.com>


by December 15, 2014:


Individual Panelists:

    200-word abstract describing paper or work to be presented

    Brief curriculum vitae

    List of audio/visual needs, if applicable


Panels:

    List of all panel members (3 per panel) with designated chairperson, 
if applicable

    200-word abstract that discusses the theme of the panel

    200-word abstract for each paper or work to be presented

    Brief curriculum vitae for each panelist and chairperson

    List of audio/visual needs, if applicable


For more information about our 2014 Conference, please visit our website
at: http://nuhistorygrads.wordpress.com/conference/.

_____________________


Stacy D. Fahrenthold
PhD Candidate, History
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

fahrenthold.s at gmail.com