[Commlist] Call for Paper Photography and Memory

Call for Papers for a Symposium on ‘Photography and Memory’

To be held at Edinburgh Napier University School of Arts and Creative 
Industries in collaboration with the City Art Centre Edinburgh and The 
Glasgow School of Art The symposium will take place in 
Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh Napier University, on the 2nd and 3rd of 
February 2023, with an optional cultural programme on 4th February 2023

© Paul Duke

The ‘Photography and Memory’ symposium will coincide with three 
forthcoming photography exhibitions at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh: 
‘Edinburgh: A Lost World’ by Ron O’Donnell, which tracks social change 
by returning to shops, laundrettes and barbers previously documented by 
O’Donnell in the 1970s and 80s; ‘No Ruined Stone’ by Paul Duke, where 
the photographer returns to Muirhouse, an area of North Edinburgh where 
the artist grew up from the mid-1960s to early 1980s; and the survey 
exhibition ‘Glean: Early 20th Century women filmmakers and photographers 
in Scotland’ curated by Jenny Brownrigg, which presents the work of 
fourteen pioneering women photographers and filmmakers, documenting 
different aspects of rural and urban Scotland, including communities and 
working life.

“Through its cultural heritage a society becomes visible to itself and 
others. Which past becomes evident in that heritage and which values 
emerge in its identificatory appropriation tells us much about the 
constitution and tendencies of a society” (Jan Assmann, 1995)

The ‘Photography and Memory’ symposium takes as its inspiration, Jan 
Assmann’s thoughts on Cultural Memory, especially how formative 
memories and images of the past, influence the present, and how they 
become pillars of collective identity. We invite presentations 
discussing a wide range of ideas relating to the notion of photography 
and (cultural?) memory. We are open to submissions dealing specifically 
with the themes presented in the cited exhibitions, and in the core 
questions:

How does photography relate to such a process? In what way? Is this true 
for all cultures? In exhibition-making and curation, how do visitors and 
curators relate to photographs representing times and areas that are not 
part of our present lives, but which we were intimately connected with 
in the past?

Please send your abstract of 250 to 350 words plus a short biography of 
about 150 words as a single word document before October 15th to 
(researchSACI /at/ napier.ac.uk) <mailto:(researchSACI /at/ napier.ac.uk)>. The panel 
will discuss and decide as soon as possible after the submission date. 
We welcome early submissions, particularly from those who identify 
themselves as early career researchers.

The announcement of the exhibitions can be found here: 
https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/ron-odonnell 
<https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/ron-odonnell> and 
http://www.ronodonnell.com/index.html 
<http://www.ronodonnell.com/index.html> · 
https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/glean-early-20th-century-women-filmmakers-and-photographers-scotland 
<https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/glean-early-20th-century-women-filmmakers-and-photographers-scotland> · 
https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/paul-duke-no-ruined-stone 
<https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/paul-duke-no-ruined-stone> and 
https://www.documentscotland.com/no-ruined-stone-by-paul-duke/ 
<https://www.documentscotland.com/no-ruined-stone-by-paul-duke/>



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