[ecrea] IMLR Workshop Framing the Object: Memory, Nation, Narrative

Call for Proposals:

Framing the Object: Memory, Nation, Narrative

Two-part Workshop for Postgraduate Students

Institute for Modern Language Research (IMLR)
10 January 2015 (9-10.30am) and 3rd February 2015 – 5.30-7.30pm

Organisers: Silke Arnold-de Simine, Rebecca Dolgoy and Godela Weiss-Sussex


‘Monuments in Germany are different from monuments in other countries.’ 
(Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum).


The British Museum’s current exhibition ‘Germany: Memories of a Nation’ 
(16 October – 25 January 2015), explores 600 years of German history 
through iconic and less familiar objects. Our two-two part workshop 
invites participants to engage with the exhibition and use its objects 
to explore themes relating to memory, nation, and narrative.

In the first session (10 January) we will go on a guided tour of the 
exhibition. Participants are encouraged to choose an object or series of 
objects to form the basis of a short and informal presentation. The 
presentations and discussions will take place during the second part of 
the workshop which will be held at the IMLR on the 3rd of February. 
Among the questions we are planning to address are:

* What kind of narratives can objects tell and how is this done in this 
exhibition?
* Why is the exhibition talking about ‘memories’ rather than 
‘narratives’ of a nation?
* Whose memories is the exhibition presenting?
* And why is the nation the defining paradigm through which these 
memories are told and which in turn legitimise the nation?
* How does the exhibition work in conjunction with the BBC4 radio 
programme which is also published as a book?

If you are interested in taking part, please write a brief expression of 
interest (no more than 200 words) in which you include why you would 
like to take part and how this workshop would benefit your own work.

Please send it to (s.arnold-desimine /at/ bbk.ac.uk), (rebecca.dolgoy /at/ gmail.com) 
and (godela.weiss-sussex /at/ sas.ac.ukby) Sunday, 4 January 2015 at the latest.


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Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine
Senior Lecturer
Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies
Birkbeck, University of London43 Gordon Square (Room 215)
London WC1H OPD

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