[ecrea] CFP Animation and Memory conference

*A**NIMATION AND **M**EMORY*

*International Conference at Radboud University, Nijmegen, 22-23 June 2017*

www.ru.nl/animationandmemory <http://www.ru.nl/animationandmemory>**

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*Call for Papers*

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The past thirty years have witnessed the emergence of memory studies as 
a field that has yielded a rich body of research into practices of 
remembering and forgetting in art, popular culture, and everyday life. 
While live action cinema and documentary films have been studied 
extensively, the interrelation between animation and memory has so far 
received much less attention. This lacuna in scholarship is particularly 
pertinent in light of the increasing number of animation films dealing 
with various forms, methods, and contexts of remembering and forgetting.

Our conference seeks to address this lacuna. We use the word animation 
in the broadest possible sense, from stop motion to computer animation 
and gif files, from cell animated cartoons to painted animation. 
Cognizant of the medium’s inherent differences from (as well as 
similarities to) live action cinema, we are particularly interested in 
the ways in which animation can operate as a medium and a technology of 
memory and forgetting.

The main questions we will explore are as follows: How do animation 
films bring forth personal and collective pasts, as well as traumatic, 
repressed or tabooed memories? What role does the materiality (or 
immateriality) of the medium play in representing the past and processes 
of remembering and forgetting? What is the role of found footage, 
objects, and sound in animation? What role does animation play in 
disseminating information about the past and how does it serve political 
ends?

We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers, as well as three-paper 
panels. Although the conference focuses on animation and memory in a 
broad sense, we especially seek contributions that address animation in 
relation to:

  * documentary
  * reenactment
  * recollection
  * adaptation
  * the archive
  * /aide mémoire/
  * /lieux de mémoire/
  * communicative / cultural memory
  * postmemory
  * multidirectional memory
  * prosthetic memory
  * performances of memory
  * real and imagined pasts
  * commemoration, memorials and monuments
  * personal and collective traumas
  * forgetting and amnesia
  * found footage / objects
  * tabooed and repressed memories
  * affect, nostalgia and melancholia
  * materiality and new materialism(s)
  * worldmaking
  * theories of memory studies
  * the history of the medium
  * museums, exhibitions, education
  * miniaturization and enlargement
  * festivals and distribution of films

*Confirmed keynote speakers*

• Professor Suzanne Buchan, Middlesex University London

• Dr. Annabelle Honess Roe, University of Surrey

*Invited artist*

• Ülo Pikkov, animator and PhD candidate at the Estonian Academy of Arts

Please send an abstract of about 250 words and a bio of 100 words to the 
organizers at

(animationandmemory /at/ let.ru.nl) <mailto:(animationandmemory /at/ let.ru.nl)> by 
*February 15, 2017*.

Selected papers will be considered for publication.

*Conference committee*

Maarten van Gageldonk, László Munteán, Ali Shobeiri, Cansu Soyupak, 
Josette Wolthuis

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