[Commlist] CFP: Moving Media, Memory, and History

Call for papers:PGR Conference 2019 

Moving Media, Memory,andHistory  

  

Date: 13th June 2019

  

Venue:Loughborough London Campus 

3LesneyAvenue  

The Broadcast Centre  

Here East Queen Elizabeth  

Olympic Park London E15 2GZ 

  

In an age ofglobal communication, the making of histories and memories 
is closely connected to diverseand movingmedia 
landscapes.Thekaleidoscope of differentmedia, memoriesand 
historiesinfluences the remembering, forgetting and archiving of events 
and processes,andisthereforeconstantly shaping and reshapingindividual 
and collective identities. This PGR conference willaddress the 
underlying power structures of the relationshipbetween the three 
ever-evolving fieldsby foregrounding interdisciplinary research that 
crosses the boundariesseparatingthem.Newandmorenuanced ways of 
understanding the past as well as the present can be discovered 
byincludingmedia technologies thatare developingthrough time as well as 
different understandings of both memory and history,so thatmultiple 
realitiescan be explored. In this sense, this conference is interested 
in the moving character ofmedia, memories and histories, which donot 
only travel with the subjects that inhabit them,butare furtherconstantly 
transmitted throughdiverse forms of communicationbetween humans, objects 
and technologies.

This PGR conference aims to explore diverse methodological and 
theoretical approaches that discuss the constantly changing relationship 
between the three fields.We are interested in ideas and 
conceptualisations of migrating, travellingand transmitted memories, 
histories and media.There are no limitations in terms of methodological 
practices within the fields and we are particularly enthusiastic to 
receive applications from those who usecritical andcreative methods in 
their research.  

This one-day conference,held at the Loughborough University’s London 
campus, welcomes postgraduate and early career researchers.Loughborough 
University attempts at facilitating an environment where afast-growing 
area of expertise is accessible to researchers at an early stage across 
the social sciences and humanities.This PGR conference will be a 
platform to connect scholarsfrom different fields.

Possible topics include, but are not restricted to the following:

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    - Migrating andtravellingmemories and histories

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    - Communication and transmission of memories and histories

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    - Memories and histories of migration  

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    - Media representation and production of migration  

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      - Memories and historiesinthe arts  

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      - Creative methods in media, memory and history

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      - Spatial traces of media, memory and history  

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      - Transnationalmedia, memory and history

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      - Technologies of moving media, memory and histories

   

Interested postgraduate and early career scholars are asked to submit 
abstracts of *300 words* by the *01**st****of April 2019* to the 
following email address:(Mmh-conference /at/ lboro.ac.uk).

A limited number of travel grantsisavailable for Loughborough students 
travellingfrom the main campus to London.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

 1.

    Professor Andrew Hoskins' research connects multiple aspects of the
    emergent digital society: media, memory, war, conflict, security,
    and privacy, to explore holistically the interplay and impact of
    contemporary media and memory ecologies.

 2.

    Professor Avtar Brahrecently retired as Professor of Sociology
    atBirkbeckas a specialist in race, gender and ethnic identity
    issues. She was awarded an MBE in 2001 in recognition of her research.



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