[ecrea] CfP: Testimony: Memory, Trauma, Truth, Engagement

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/testimony/call-for-presentations/




Testimony: Memory, Trauma, Truth, Engagement Project: 2nd Global Meeting

Saturday 11th July – Monday 13th July 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

The meeting seeks to examine, assess and explore the multiple uses and 
contexts in which testimony finds a voice. It takes for its theme 
Testimony: Memory, Trauma, Truth, and Engagement.  Why testimony? How is 
it defined? How is testimony used in contexts such as legal, 
restorative, pedagogical, artistic, clinical, to name a few? Why does it 
continue to thrive and evolve in the twenty-first century and does it, 
or does it not, differ from earlier modes, times, cultures?

Testimony encompasses a diversity of expression and representation—from 
oral to written as well as nonfictional to fictional. Testimonial 
production also covers a diverse range of topics and practices, 
including human rights and storytelling; trauma and memory; ethics, 
witnessing, redress, reconciliation; narrative therapy, cognitive 
behavioural therapy, and critical pedagogy, among others. It is 
undeniable that testimony implies a spectrum of disciplines, conventions 
and practices, art forms, and embraces a broad range of geographical and 
historical contexts.

We therefore welcome proposals that speak to the diversity and varied 
approaches to testimony and its engagement. Proposals may address, but 
are not limited to the following themes:

– Purpose and function of testimony: activism, denouncing human rights 
abuses, social justice education, healing and recovery, etc.

– Practices of testimony: legal, legislative, clinical, pedagogical, 
religious, artistic, performative, etc.

– Modes of testimony: written and oral accounts, film, media, music, 
photography, capacity for fiction to reveal truth, life writing genres, 
performance, architecture, museums, rituals

– Legacies of trauma and testimony: cultures of acknowledgement, 
cultures of redress, truth and reconciliation commissions, survivor 
groups, memorialisation, haunted geographies, spectral spaces

-Technologies that enable/disable testimony: Social media, Internet, 
digital archives, photoshop and other means of manipulating the 
visual/narrative record

-Impact of gender, race and class on individual and collective 
experiences with trauma, memory and testimony; collective testimony

– Ethics and reception of testimony: factors that influence the 
believability of a witness; false memory, amnesia as self-defense 
mechanism for dealing with trauma; effectiveness of testimony, etc.

– Economics of trauma and memory: tourism, self-help industry, 
exploitation and commercialisation.

The Steering Group welcomes the submission of proposals for short 
workshops, practitioner-based activities, performances, and pre-formed 
panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings; photographic 
essays; installations; interactive talks and alternative presentation 
styles that encourage engagement.

What to Send:
Proposals will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word 
proposals should be submitted by Friday 13th March 2015. If a proposal 
is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper of no more than 3000 
words should be submitted by Friday 22nd May 2015. Proposals should be 
submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; proposals may be in 
Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in 
programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, 
f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Testimony2 Proposal Submission

All abstracts will be at least double blind peer reviewed. Please use 
plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special 
formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). 
We acknowledge receipt and answer to all proposals submitted. If you do 
not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not 
receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, 
to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs:
Cristina Santos, Adriana Spahr, Tracy Crowe Morey: 
(ssc /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)
Rob Fisher: (testimony2 /at/ inter-disciplinary.net)

The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different 
areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which 
are innovative and exciting.All proposals accepted for and presented at 
the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication 
in an ISBN eBook.  Selected proposals may be developed for publication 
in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference 
will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the 
conference.

Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and 
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend 
for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this 
commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we 
are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or 
subsistence.





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Dr. Cristina Santos
Associate Professor
Hispanic and Latin American Studies
Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Brock University | 500 Glenridge Ave.  |  St. Catharines, ON  L2S 3A1
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/testimony/



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