[ecrea] CFP Conference Migration, memory and place

CALL FOR PAPERS
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> Migration, Memory, and Place
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> Conference organized by Danish Network for Cultural Memory Studies
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> & Network for Migration and Culture
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> 6 – 7 December 2012
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> Venues:
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> University of Copenhagen (6 December)
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> Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj (7 December)
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Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2012
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> The increasingly complex relationship between the local and the 
global, ‘the near’ and ‘the far away’, has emerged as one of the 
defining characteristics of contemporary societies. With globalization’s 
increased mobility of people and speed of information exchange, and the 
cultural encounters resulting from it, traditional essentializing and 
stabilizing definitions of terms such as ‘home’, ‘belonging’, ‘place’, 
‘identity’ and ‘memory’ have long become problematic and more adequate 
understandings of these conceptions are much sought after.
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> This conference centers on the recognition that place and space are 
of fundamental importance to all questions of migration, and that 
cultural migrations may involve a fundamental transformation of the 
experience of spaces and places and their close links to the social and 
cultural meanings of home, belonging and memory. Through the movement of 
people, cities, homes, landscapes and other localities become 
re-configured and reinterpreted through migrants’ stories, photographs, 
music, artwork, films and websites. Most urban spaces, for instance, are 
already described as inseparably diasporic, migratory spaces. At the 
same time, places are palimpsests that hold many layers of memory whose 
significance is negotiated in contemporary cultural life.
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> The conference invites considerations of how artistic and cultural 
representations of memory, migration and migrant experiences (in 
literature, cinema, theatre, media, the visual arts and other areas of 
culture and cultural practices) provide fruitful points of departure for 
the development of new theoretical concepts of place and belonging, and, 
vice versa, how multiple approaches to the perspective of place and 
memory can enrich the study of cultural migration.
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> The conference invites papers from scholars working with art, 
literature, film, media, cultural representations or cultural 
performance and cutting across fields such as studies in culture, media 
and the arts, migration studies, cross-cultural studies, post-colonial 
studies, cultural geography, place theory, cultural anthropology, urban 
studies, cultural sociology and philosophy.
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> Confirmed keynotes
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> Edward S. Casey, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, SUNY at Stony 
Brook: tba
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> Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative 
Literature, Columbia University: “Media of Memory”
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> Nikos Papastergiadis, Professor of Cultural Studies and Media & 
Communications, University of Melbourne: “The Scenes of Aesthetic 
Cosmopolitanism”
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> Alistair Thomson, Professor of History, Monash University: tba
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> Sigrid Weigel, Professor of Comparative Literature, Zentrum für 
Literaturforschung and Technische Universität, Berlin: “The 
Mediterranean from the perspective of the Black Sea: Topography and 
cultural semantics of land and sea in the European thalassic debate”
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> The conference invites papers on the following topics of reflection 
and discussion:
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>       Critical reflections on narrations and hi/stories of rootedness 
versus migratory hi/stories of place (including migration and the 
relation to national constructions of place, identity and 
intersubjective recognition).
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>       Migration and diasporas as influencing collective memories, 
cultural memory and memory cultures, e.g. as challenging or being 
challenged by collective memories of place; and how places may be 
“re-membered” through migration/ immigration.
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>       Critical reflections on existing theoretical discourses of, for 
instance, transient places, transcultural places, borders, contact 
zones, transit spaces, non-places and third spaces as produced or 
intensified by migration, the movement through places, hybridizations 
and cultural translations of places.
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>       Migration as throwing new light on place and belonging as 
dynamic phenomena shaped by transcultural connections and processes of 
“getting back into place”.
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>       The interfaces of place, locality and belonging as discursive, 
politicized phenomena and/ or as sensed, emotionally experienced or 
recollected phenomena.
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>       The relations between global migration and local places at 
international and sub-national levels, including the role of collective 
memory between nation and globe, and the new forms of identity 
constructions that arise from this.
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>       The urban space as contact zone or lived diversity: questions 
of diversity, intersubjective relations, ghettoization, gentrification.
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>       Representations of displacement, rootlessness, homelessness or 
re-integration in new places as throwing new light on human relations to 
place and notions of home and belonging (including migrant domesticity: 
the role of domestic spaces in migrant’s experience of belonging).
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> Applicants should send an abstract of 200-300 words clearly outlining 
the focus of the paper, alongside a short biography, to (nmc /at/ hum.ku.dk). 
Paper presentations will be scheduled to 30 minutes (including discussion).
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> Deadline for proposals: 1 May 2012
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> You will be notified of the organisers’ decision by early June 2012.
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> Conference contacts:
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> Sten Pultz Moslund, Post-doc, Dept of Literature, Culture and Media, 
University of Southern Denmark ((pultz /at/ litcul.sdu.dk) )
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> Anne Ring Petersen, Associate Professor, Dept of Arts and Cultural 
Studies, University of Copenhagen ((annering /at/ hum.ku.dk) )
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> Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Associate Professsor, Dept of Aesthetics and 
Communication, Aarhus University ((memory /at/ au.dk))

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