[ecrea] CFP State Commemoration in a Digital World

Call for Papers
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*State commemoration in a digital world*
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RGS-IBG 2017, London, 29 August – 1 September

This session considers how new ways of understanding the relationship 
amongst memory, state-sponsored history and national identity might be 
possible in a digital world. In particular, it seeks to explore the role 
of social media and digital technology at memory sites and during 
commemorative events. This includes the forms and articulations of 
memory that the digital can enable, the publics that might be reached, 
and whether particular affective intensities can be brought into being 
by or through digital technologies.

Papers are invited that examine different aspects of the politics and 
experiences of state commemoration with reference to its articulation in 
or transformation by the digital world. This includes research about the 
digital – including digital technologies, social media or new forms of 
representing the past – and research undertaken using new digital 
methodologies. Given the 2014-18 centenary period, papers focused on 
First World War commemorative activities are of particular interest. 
Topics might include:

  *   The affective and atmospheric potential of digital technologies to
    shape the meaning of official commemorative events;

  * Social media, identity politics and the circulation of affects at
    moments of national crisis or tension;

  * The use of digital technologies at state-sponsored memory sites,
    including social media, and the effect they have on official
    narrative and/or visitors’ experiences;

  * How digital technologies might shape understandings of state
    histories, and what alternate rendering of these histories might be
    enabled;

  * New ways of deploying digital technologies in research on collective
    memory and commemoration.

Please forward proposed paper titles and abstracts of no more than 300 
words to (shanti.sumartojo /at/ rmit.edu.au) 
<mailto:(shanti.sumartojo /at/ rmit.edu.au)> by *Friday 10 February 2017*. This 
session is sponsored by the Digital Geographies Working Group of the 
Institute of British Geographers.


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