[ecrea] ICA Pre-conference, "Making Sense of Memory & History"

ICA Pre-Conference, “Making Sense of Memory & History”

Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)

22 May 2014



Dear Colleagues:



The Communication History Division of ICA is delighted to announce its 
sponsored pre-conference, “Making Sense of Memory & History” this spring 
on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at Seattle’s Museum of History & industry 
(MOHAI). We have scheduled an impressive day of panels and roundtables, 
and invite you to join in this cross-field, cross-disciplinary program 
featuring scholars within communication studies, rhetoric, public 
history, and the digital humanities more broadly.



Confirmed featured panelists include:

·       Dr. S. Elizabeth Bird

·       Dr. Carolyn Kitch

·       Dr. Carolyn Marvin

·       Dr. Barbie Zelizer



Pre-Conference Outline:

History and memory – two modes of thinking about the past that often 
appear at odds – have an intimate, albeit at times strained, 
intellectual relationship. Despite the argued antagonism between history 
and memory studies, historians Natalie Zemon Davis and Randolph Starn 
suggested in their introduction to the 1989 special issue of 
Representations that, “Rather than insisting on the opposition between 
memory and history, then, we want to emphasize their interdependence…If 
anything, it is the tension or outright conflict between history and 
memory that seem necessary and productive. The explosive pertinence of a 
remembered detail may challenge repressive or merely complacent systems 
of prescriptive memory or history; memory, like the body, may speak in a 
language that reasoned inquiry will not hear.” (5) Following Davis & 
Starn, this pre-conference proposes to grapple with this tension between 
history and memory, exploring the varied ways in which scholars, from a 
variety of subfields within communication studies and across the 
humanities, have engaged with this relationship in recent years. Through 
its emphasis upon cross-field, cross-disciplinary connections, this 
pre-conference will highlight new directions within memory studies, 
build upon existing theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as 
opening a space for new and reconsidered perspectives that capitalize 
upon the interdisciplinarity of memory studies and the possibilities of 
new technologies.



The full program can be found below and on the Communication History 
Division website at: 
http://communicationhistory.org/precon/preconference-schedule/



To register for the pre-conference, please visit 
https://www.icahdq.org/shopping/Default.asp. Pre-conference registration 
is available under “Thursday Full-Day Pre-Conferences.” The registration 
fee of $100 includes, in addition to the event itself, travel to/from 
MOHAI, breakfast, lunch, and admission to the Museum. Registration for 
the main ICA conference is not required for those registering for this 
pre-conference.



We hope you will join us!



Sincerely,



Nicole Maurantonio & Dave Park,

Pre-Conference Co-Organizers



Making Sense of Memory & History



An ICA Pre-Conference Sponsored by the

Communication History Division



Seattle, 22 May 2014

Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)



Schedule



8:30 AM – 8:45 AM: Arrival, Coffee



8:45 AM – 8:50 AM: Opening comments from pre-conference organizers



8:50 AM – 9:30 AM: Roundtable 1: Testimony, Conflict & Social Justice



·       Melissa Meade, “Conflict, History, and the Social Memory of 
Ethnicized Labor in the Anthracite Coal Region”

·       Suhi Choi, “Reenacting Civilian Bodies: the No Gun Ri Peace Park”

·       Todd Goehle, “Media, Advocacy, and Access: Rudi Dutschke and the 
Politics Commemorating West Germany’s `1968’”



9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Coffee Break



9:40 AM – 11:15 AM: Roundtable 2: Storytelling & Consuming the Past



·       Michael Meyen, “Mass Media & Collective Memory: The Communist 
GDR in Germany’s Communicative and Cultural Memory”

·       Rick Popp, “Time-Life Books and Industrialized Memory in the 
Long 1970s”

·       Julia Sonnevend, “The Making of a Global Iconic Event: History, 
Memory and Transnational Storytelling”

·       Sabina Mihelj, “Socialist Television and Everyday Life between 
Memory and History”

·       Heather Stone, “African-American Newspapers and Brown v. Board 
of Education: Six Decades of Mediated Commemoration”

·       Deb Lubken & Debora Lui, “When Freedom Didn’t Ring: Narrating a 
Quiet Moment in the Liberty Bell’s Past”

·       Derek Vaillant, “The France You Keep Hearing About: 
Transatlantic Memory Work in English-Language French Radio, 1968-1974”



11:15 AM – 12 PM: Roundtable 3: Theory/Method in the Study of Collective 
Memory



·       Oren Meyers, “Mnemonic Journalism: Israeli Journalists and the 
`New Historiography Debate’”

·       Michael Pickering & Emily Keightley, “Interscalarity and Memory 
Studies Methodology”

·       Omar Al-Ghazzi, “De-Westernizing the memory-history debate: 
Hegemonic memories in the Arab World”

·       Piotr Szpunar, “Collective Memory & Future Thought”





12 PM – 12:30 PM: Lunch



12:30 PM – 1:15 PM: Panel Discussion: Doing Memory & History

            Participants:

·       Barbie Zelizer

·       Carolyn Kitch

·       Carolyn Marvin

·       S. Elizabeth Bird



1:15 PM – 2:30 PM: Roundtable 4: Digital Platforms & Mediating the 
Local/Global



·       Thomas Birkner & Andre Donk, “Local Collective Memory & Social 
Media: Fostering a New Historical Consciousness?”

·       Hui Zhao, “Civic Engagement in Collective Remembering: Social 
Media, Information Credibility, and Knowledge Production in China”

·       Caitlin McClune, “Collective Mediated Memory: Consolidated 
Zimbabwean Nationalism in Big Brother Africa”

·       Brian C. Johnsrud, “Turning Ancestry into Stories: How Genes 
Become Transmediated Cultural Memories”

·       Fredrik Stiernstedt & Anne Kaun, “History and Media Memories on 
Facebook: Institutional and Technological Affordances for Memory Work”



2:30 PM – 2:40 PM: Coffee Break



2:40 – 3:50 PM: Roundtable 5: Mediating Space & Place

·       Brett Oppegaard, “Ubiquity & Memory: When Mobile Media Remembers 
& Never Forgets”

·       Samantha Oliver, “#MadeInSyria: Agency, Iconoclasm, and Memory 
Practice in the Age of Digital Media”

·       MélHogan, “The Past Is Prologue: Automation and the Aggregation 
of Memory”

·       Sharon Ringel, “Building an Archive for Future Generations: The 
Digitization of the National Library of Israel”

·       Erin Cory, “Re-membering Beirut: The Possibilities and Politics 
of Walking a “postwar” City”

·       Camille Paloque-Berges, “Archives of Online Conversations as 
Memory Sources for the History of the Internet”

·       Andrea Davis, “History vs. Legacy: Material Archives and Public 
Memory”



3:50 PM – 4 PM: Closing Words



4PM: Return to ICA Conference Hotel for Opening Plenary & Reception





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