[Commlist] CFP "Shaping memories in contemporary narratives". Funes journal n.4 2020

*Funes. Journal of Narratives and Social Sciences*
Open access double blind peer review journal
ISSN 2532-6732


  Call for Papers: Shaping memories in contemporary narratives

N.4 2020 Editors: Marta Vignola, Stefano Bory
http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/funes/announcement/view/113


One of the main issues characterizing the current debate on social 
sciences (with a proliferation of Memory Studies especially since the 
1980s in the Anglo-Saxon and European area) concern the  role of memory 
not only related to its theoretical definition, but also referring to 
its possible use as an interpretative tool in the empirical analysis of 
social and cultural processes.

The studies on the social origin of memory have developed in different 
fields, from the sociology of Halbwachs, Assmann, Cohen, Lavabre, 
Zerubavel, Jedlowski, Namer, Jelin, to other philosophical and 
historical perspectives authors such as Nora, Ricoeur, Ost, Le Goff, 
Jenkins, Arendt, Benjamin, Kracauer... All these strands have 
contributed to a systematization of memory by placing it in a 
multidisciplinary field.

To remember we need others. This is because our memories, including the 
most intimate and personal ones, only acquire meaning when they are 
shared with an emotional and social community that will contribute to 
their elaboration. The memories of individuals are not, therefore, able 
to construct, in retrospect, social frames of reference, but are the 
tools used by the collective memory to recompose an image of the past 
that is incessantly modified and re-described orienting the future.

A noticeable contradiction emerges here, namely that memory is exercised 
starting from the present and not from the past. Reword: we only 
remember what we have reconstructed. Social thought itself is 
essentially the expression of metamemorial narratives: elaborations, 
recompositions, shapes, negotiations of memories, in dialectics between 
memory and oblivion, among the members of a more or less vast social 
group. There is no memory without a collective re-interpretation and 
renegotiation - and the category of counter-memory becomes relevant.

Starting from the issues related to memory – and from a 
sociological-cultural outlook above all - will be evaluated: 
contributions of an exclusively theoretical approach; contributions 
which, starting from empirical research, produce theoretical reflections 
on the topics of the call; contributions in which memory is an 
investigative tool for reading social and cultural change - i.e. the use 
of life stories, narrative interviews and other biographical tools in 
which memory assumes a prominent importance from a methodological point 
of view.

The subject matters and topics of the call could be, in a non-exclusive way:

⁃ Old and new narrative forms of memory.

⁃ Post-industrial memory.

⁃ Media and memory.

⁃ Memory, justice and power.

⁃ From post-colonial memories to migrant memories.

⁃ Memory and neuroscience.

Propositions presentation

The abstract (max 500 words) can be written in Italian or in English and 
sent at the email

addresses:

(atelier.funes /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(atelier.funes /at/ gmail.com)>

(marta.vignola /at/ unisalento.it) <mailto:(marta.vignola /at/ unisalento.it)>

(bory /at/ unina.it) <mailto:(bory /at/ unina.it)>

The proposition needs to contain:

  * Name, Surname, Institue of provenience and academic position of the
    author;
  * Provisional title of the article;
  * Indication in the email Subject line: “Call: Shaping memories in
    contemporary narratives”

Times:

Abstract deadline: 25 July 2020

Results announced: 1st August 2020

Paper deadline: 20 September 2020

Referees’ decision: 5 October 2020

Final papers: 31 October 2020

Publication: November 2020

Accepted languages

English, Italian, French, Spanish

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