[ecrea] CFP: Affect, Memory and the Transmission of Trauma - London, March 2013

Call For Papers:



Affect, memory, and the transmission of trauma



15 March 2013

Goldsmiths College, London



Keynote speakers:

Professor Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University and

Dr. Lisa Blackman, Goldsmiths College



This interdisciplinary conference explores the connections between 
affect, memory, and trauma, and examines their crucial role in how we 
construct our individual and collective identities. We aspire to 
establish ongoing dialogues that reconsider memory as a productive and 
performative process as embodied, emplaced, and stretching across time 
and space.



Memory is a dynamic, mercurial and entangled process.  Within memories 
of our personal and communal histories, recalled facts can become 
indistinguishable from remembered fictions. What we remember of such 
histories changes as we acquire newer memories and experiences from the 
present and its daily encounters. Memories of traumatic experiences from 
the distant or recent past are embodied in our present, and they rewrite 
how we construct the possibilities for the future. What we remember of 
our traumatic histories is prone to disobey cognitive conventions, as 
memories shape our fantasies of the past and imaginings of our future. 
Through remembrances of trauma and the past, affect is embodied, 
transmitted, and situated within the silences and gaps of forgotten 
memory, throughout physical space, and also across chronological time.



These interdisciplinary conversations are due and tied to the growing 
interest of the ‘turn to affect’ in cultural studies, and across the 
arts and humanities in the last two decades.  We hope to establish 
dialogues that challenge us to re-consider and re-imagine new ways to 
envision the fields of affect, memory, and trauma studies.



We invite proposals that explore the diverse practices of Affect and 
Memory, as articulated through the arts and humanities, media, film, 
social sciences and other scholarship connected to these areas.

While we welcome traditional academic papers, we do encourage creative 
methods of delivery, including performance and visual arts approaches.



We welcome individual abstracts of 250 words to:



(affectgold /at/ gmail.com)



by November 30, 2012



Presenters may wish to consider, but are not limited to, discussing the 
following topics:

?      Transgenerational trauma and diaspora

?      Unconscious memory

?      Memory, space and place

?      Performative memory

?      Narratives of trauma

?      Research methodologies involving affect in the study of memory

?      Community and trauma across time



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