[Commlist] Call for Abstracts: Conference "Communicating Memory Matters"

*Call for Abstracts*

International Conference: „Communicating Memory Matters: Next Steps in 
the Study of Media Remembering and Communicative Commemoration“

University of Salzburg, Austria

16–17 September 2020.

Please submit abstracts via email ((memorymatters2020 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(memorymatters2020 /at/ gmail.com)>) by 1 March 2020 (for further 
information go to _https://www.memoryandmedia.net_).

Organized by

Memory and Media Research Network

Professor Christian Pentzold and Professor Christine Lohmeier

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*International Conference*

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*Communicating Memory Matters: Next Steps in the Study of Media 
Remembering and Communicative Commemoration *

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*University of Salzburg, 16–17 September 2020*

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Funded by the German Research Foundation, Memory and Media Network Grant

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/Confirmed keynote speakers: Karina Horsti (Finnish Academy & University 
of Jyväskylä), Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow), Carolyn Kitch 
(Temple University), Randi Marselis (Roskilde University), & Anna 
Reading (King’s College London)/

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Memory is a communicative affair. Media and the forms of interaction and 
sensemaking they enable shape the ways people come to connect to a 
collective past, store personal reminiscences, and return to bygone 
moments. As such, every new wave of information and communication 
technology has brought about shifts in mnemonic culture.

The practices and processes of media remembering and communicative 
commemoration receive an increasing academic attention across 
disciplines. Our conference addresses this nascent area of inquiry. It 
calls for contributions that explore the fundaments of communication 
memory studies in different academic traditions, map corresponding 
fields of research, and scrutinize analytical perspectives.

The event brings together theoretical and empirical approaches toward 
the capacity of communication processes and media environments for 
memory making. Due to the variety of paradigms, we believe that it is 
necessary to work across disciplines and embrace an international 
perspective.

The conference is open to research related to questions of memory, 
media, and communication. And it invites senior as well as emerging 
scholars to contemplate the future of communication memory studies.

Contributions can address, but are not limited to, the following aspects:

  * Journalism and the role of journalistic memory agents
  * Memory and visual communication
  * Remembering and forgetting in academia, most notably communication
    studies
  * Media nostalgia in networked communication
  * Media witnessing and digital media
  * New media and shifting forms of memory making
  * Data, archives, and information retrieval
  * Memory work in-between the past, the present, and the future
  * Cosmopolitan and transnational media memory

The conference will be hosted by the Memory and Media Network. It is 
funded by the German Research Foundation.

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*Submission Guidelines*

Abstracts must be submitted via email ((memorymatters2020 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(memorymatters2020 /at/ gmail.com)>) by 1 March 2020. Submissions must 
contain a front page with all information about the author(s) as well as 
an anonymized extended abstract (max. 500 words excl. front page and 
bibliographical references).

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*General Information*

The conference will begin on Tuesday, 15 September 2020,with a 
Get-Together and end on Thursday, 17 September 2020,with an afternoon 
session. For updated information concerning the programme, registration, 
accommodation,and travel, please visit our website 
_www.memoryandmedia.net_ <http://www.memoryandmedia.net>

*Key Dates*

1 March 2020: deadline for abstract submissions

8 April 2020: notification of acceptance

1 May 2020: publication of conference programme

15 to 17 September 2020: conference

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*Organizers and Contact*

Memory and Media Research Network

Professor Christian Pentzold and Professor Christine Lohmeier

Email: _memorymatters2020@gmail.com_

Web: https://www.memoryandmedia.net

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*Conference Venue *

Department of Communication Studies, University of Salzburg, Rudolfskai 
42, 5020 Salzburg, Austria






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