[ecrea] cfp: MCP Special Issue: 'Studies in Cultural Memory' Deadline approaching

A reminder that the MCP's special issue 'Studies in Cultural Memory' is
approaching: 30 June 2015.

This special issue welcomes research across disciplines in the
humanities and social sciences and seeks to provide a critical forum for
dialogue and debate on the theoretical, methodological, and empirical
issues central to an understanding of cultural memory today. Papers
should address the ways in which cultural memory is formed, used,
presented and represented, appropriated, and changed while being
committed to the broad understanding of cultural memory as the interplay
of past and present in socio-cultural and historical contexts. In
particular, the volume encourages papers that examine questions of
cultural memory, its manipulation and its understanding as a
methodological and epistemological tool, as well as papers that
investigate the relation between cultural memory and new media
(including the Internet, social media etc) as well as old media
(photography, cinema, TV etc).


Topics might address, but are not limited to, the following:

1)What can scholars, theorists and artists learn through Assmann’s essay?
2)What role does cultural memory play today?
3)What is being done to critique it?
4)How is cultural memory embedded/constructed in film, television,
literature, comic books and graphic novels, visual art, and theatre?
5)Can cultural memory be manipulated?
6)What issues does post-memory raise?
7)How are memories used to mobilize groups and form identities?
8)What is the role of social media and the Internet?
9)How is nostalgia related to cultural memory? What is the role of
nostalgia in the formation of cultural memory?
10)What is the role of location in the construction of cultural memory?


Interested contributors are invited to send 6,000-7,000 word essays
(incl. references), short commentaries (2,500-3,000 words incl.
references), and book reviews (1,000-2,500 words) at the following
addresses: (kosmidourania /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(kosmidourania /at/ gmail.com)> and
(cdermen /at/ uoi.gr) <mailto:(cdermen /at/ uoi.gr)> on or before 30 June
2015. Contributors should also include their affiliation, contact
details and a short biographical note of approximately 200 words. For
Submission guidelines please check the Journal's website here:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/style%20guide%28journals%29-1.pdf


Best,

Eleftheria Kosmidou

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