[ecrea] Cities of Memory: Performing and Media Arts in the Post-Conflict City

Call for Papers

Cities of Memory:
Performing and Media Arts in the Post-Conflict City

4-5 April, 2013, Queen’s University, Belfast

Keynote Speakers
Professor Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam)
Dr Colin Graham (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Professor Jane Taylor (University of Chicago)


Developing from the work of the Belfast-Sarajevo Initiative (2007-2010), 
the School of Creative Arts at Queen's, in association with the British 
Academy, is hosting this conference to examine how theatre, performance, 
film, and the visual arts address post-conflict situations. We will 
consider proposals that focus on any post-conflict city, or region, and 
intend the Cities of Memory project to encourage interdisciplinary 
discussion on the contemporary arts and their relation to issues of 
testimony, witnessing, forgetting, representation, healing, 
reconciliation, agency, and metaphor.


Please e-mail 300-word abstracts along with a brief biographical 
statement on or before 21st December, 2012 to (d.orawe /at/ qub.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(d.orawe /at/ qub.ac.uk)> and (m.phelan /at/ qub.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(m.phelan /at/ qub.ac.uk)>
All submissions will be reviewed and decisions communicated promptly. 
There is no registration fee for attendance.
All participants will be invited to submit their papers for publication 
in a critical anthology to be published by a leading academic press.
For more information on the Cities of Memory project, and updates on 
confirmed colloquium keynote speakers and participants, and other 
research developments, go to: www.citiesofmemory.org 
<http://www.citiesofmemory.org/>