Translating Memory and Remembrance across the Disciplines
Conference dates: OCTOBER 2015; MARCH 2016 Venue: SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Why remember? How to remember? What to remember? And what gets
forgotten? These and others questions are part of an exploration that
has been taking place across multiple disciplines, from anthropology,
sociology, media, and area studies, to race and gender studies,
history, literature, and art. Translating Memory and Remembrance
across the Disciplines, a year-long conference and workshop sponsored
by SUNY’s Conversation in the Disciplines program, seeks to bring
together scholars from across disciplines and academic institutions to
generate collaborations, foment new queries, discover new
methodologies, and build institutional bridges among scholars of
memory, forgetting, and commemoration.
The conference will have two sessions:
Session I - October 8-9, 2015: Questions of Memory and Remembrance
KEYNOTE: Marianne Hirsch (William Peterfield Trent Professor of
English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University)
Session II - March 2016: Problematizing Memory and Remembrance
KEYNOTE: To Be Announced
For the first session, topics might include but are not limited to:
How are we approaching the study of memory? What are the disciplinary
limitations, barriers and challenges? Can we look at memory from
interdisciplinary lenses?
How does gender manifest in remembering and forgetting?
What opportunities, limitations, and affordances are provided by
concrete (memorials, museums) and digital sites of memory?
How do educational materials and processes (textbooks, standardized
exams, standardized curricula) facilitate remembering and forgetting?
In what mediums, genres, spaces, and communities does memory manifest?
What roles do photography, documentary and feature film, and other
visual platforms play in remembering?
How can feminist or critical race scholarship shed light on what’s
remembered, by whom, and to what ends?
What methodological challenges are we facing in the current study of
memory and remembrance? Are we entering a new phase in memory studies?
In what ways is memory a place for political struggle? How does this
struggle change through different discursive and visual practices?
How does memory get disciplined through institutional (academic,
bureaucratic, archival) apparatuses? What kinds of structures are in
place for these disciplining practices?
What is the place of memory in discussions about subjectivity, agency,
and social transformation?
What are the roles of the traumatic, the repressed, and censorship
(subjective and institutional) in the understanding and representation
of any given present?
What are the relationships between memory, performance, embodiment and
the archive?
How does/could memory become a place of convergence for traditionally
segregated practices of social intervention?
Format
The conference will consist of two formats: Themed panels and Workshops
In the themed panels, scholars will present their work to the full
audience with the opportunity for a Q&A to follow.
In the small-group workshops, scholars will present research projects
in progress to other participants to receive substantial feedback on
their projects from other scholars. These workshops will provide an
overview of the range of methods, questions, and literatures for
scholars of memory studies.
Submissions for First Session
We invite scholars of memory and remembrance to submit abstracts of
completed projects (for panels) as well as works in progress (for
workshops). Please send abstracts of 250-300 words to Roberto
Vélez-Vélez (velezr@newpaltz.edu) by August 7th, 2015. Your submission
should identify the format of interest (panel or workshop), include
the name(s) of the author(s), the title of the project, and its status
(e.g. completed project, work in progress).
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by August 21st, 2015.
Workshop participants will be asked to submit an extended abstract
before the conference to facilitate discussion and feedback. We will
consider a range of approaches, disciplines and cases to ensure a
robust and productive experience for all.
A separate call for abstracts will be sent for the second session in
January 2016.
Fee
There will be a $25 registration fee to cover the costs of lunch and
refreshments. Details on booking registration and accommodation
options will follow on acceptance of your proposal.
Translating Memory and Remembrance Across the Disciplines is supported
by the SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines program as well as
SUNY-New Paltz.
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