[Commlist] Communicating Memory Matters cfp

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

University of Salzburg, 16-17 September 2020. DEADLINE for abstracts: 1 
March 2020

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)

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.

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).

General Information: The conference will begin Tuesday, 15 September 
2020, with a Get-Together and end Thursday, 17 September 2020, with an 
afternoon session. For updated information concerning the program, 
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 program
15 to 17 September 2020: conference

Organizers and Contact:

Memory and Media Research Network
Professor Christian Pentzold and Professor Christine Lohmeier
Email: (memorymatters2020 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(memorymatters2020 /at/ gmail.com)>
Web: https://www.memoryandmedia.net

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