*Reminder of Call for Papers. Closing date 15th May.*
*Keynote Speaker Prof. David Berliner.*
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*Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories: Postgraduate Conference 2019*
*Memory, Nostalgia and the Politics of Space and Place*
*4th July 2019, 9:30am to 5:30pm*
We invite submissions for our one-day, postgraduate interdisciplinary
conference at the University of Brighton on 4th July 2019 9.30 am –
5.30 pm in M2 Boardroom, Grand Parade
Keynote address from David Berliner, Free University of Brussels
This conference explores the role of nostalgia in shaping our
relationship to space/place and vice versa. It aims to bring together
two lines of investigation. On the one hand, what are the complex,
non-linear temporalities at stake in the use and abuse of memory and
nostalgia to shape present and future spatial politics and realities?
As Svetlana Boym pointed out, nostalgia is intrinsically prospective
and ‘the fantasies of the past determined by the needs of the present
have a direct impact on the realities of the future...The nostalgic
feels stifled within the conventional confines of time and space.’
(2011). On the other hand, the physical and emotional experiences of
space and place, as well as its narrativization, shape the ways in
which memory and nostalgia are framed and phrased. Following Reavey’s
suggestion that ‘the experience of memory pushes beyond narrative
alone and emerges from specific scenes or settings, as much as time
periods or stories’ (2017: 1), we would like to investigate the many
more than representational ways in which memory and nostalgia play a
role in the politics of place.
Important questions and areas of exploration involve, among others:
what are the various ways in which the use of memory and nostalgia
shape the politics, understandings and experiences
of space and place and vice versa? What are the complex, non-linear
temporalities at stake in what can be defined as nostalgia? How does
nostalgia shape future spatial realities? In what ways is nostalgia
about a space/place transmitted, translated or exploited to shape
future (spatial) realities? Or to shape political, social, activist –
spatial and non-spatial – interests?
Suggested themes are, but are not limited to:
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Social and emotional consequences of spatial change;
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Official and vernacular memory narratives on place/space;
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Longing for a (lost) space/place;
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Use of ‘the past’, nostalgia and memory in place-related activism;
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Contesting and reclaiming space/place using nostalgic narratives;
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Narrating palimpsestic places/spaces;
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Issues around heritage destruction and preservation;
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Complex temporalities at stake in nostalgic discourses over a
space/place (home, nation, building, landmark, inhabited or
uninhabited space, human and more-than- human space, etc.);
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Nostalgia over an era that is gone – symbolised by spatial
elements (e.g. the fall of the
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Berlin wall or the ‘Iron Curtain’);
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Memory-scapes, geographies of memories, etc.
*Abstract Submissions*
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*We welcome proposals of no more than 300 words for 20-minute papers,
as well as posters with a 200-word description. Application is open to
MA students, PhD students and early- career researchers, from all
disciplines. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary, creative,
international and intersectional research.
We wish to provide a supportive and inclusive space to spawn fruitful
debates and exchanges. Proposals for photo essays, short
documentaries, short movies and other forms of presentation, with a
200-word description, will also be considered. Do get in touch if you
have any ideas or questions you would like to discuss.
Please submit your abstracts by 15th May 2019
to*(nostalgiabrighton /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(nostalgiabrighton /at/ gmail.com)>*
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Everyone is welcome to attend. Attendance is free, but places are
limited and registration is necessary. If you are planning on
attending, please register as soon as possible:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memory-nostalgia-and-the-politics-of-space-and-place-tickets-58633557549
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/centre-for-research-in-memory-narrative-and-histories/centre-events/postgraduate-conferences/pg-conference-memory,-nostalgia-and-the-politics-of-space-and-place
Artwork by Petra Kostevc
References
Boym, S. (2011).
Nostalgiahttp://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-
transformation/html/n/nostalgia/nostalgia-svetlana-boym.html
<http://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-%20transformation/html/n/nostalgia/nostalgia-svetlana-boym.html>Adaptation
and elaboration from Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia, Basic
Books, New York 2001
Reavey, P. (2017). Scenic memory: Experience through time–space.
Memory Studies, 10(2), 107–111.https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698016683844
