The Place of Memory and Memory of Place- International Conference

Date : 22nd June 2019 to 23rd June 2019

Place : United Kingdom, Oxford

Website :http://memory.lcir.co.uk/

Contact Person:Dr. Olena Lytovka

Description:

Memory is a major theme in contemporary life, a key to personal, social and cultural identity. Scholars have studied the concept from different perspectives and within different disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, urban design, and the interdisciplinary “place studies”. According to Pierre Nora, places of memory or lieux de mémoire refer to those places where “memory crystallizes and secretes itself”; the places where the exhausted capital of collective memory condenses and is expressed. To be considered as such, these sites must be definable in the three senses of the word: material, symbolical and functional, all in different degrees but always present. What makes them a memory site is the interplay of memory and history, the interaction of both factors, which allows their reciprocal over-determination. “The Place of Memory and Memory of Place” International Conference aims to spark new conversations across the field of memory and place studies. Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to: monuments and sites of trauma childhood homes city space and sightseeing burial places (graves, cementaries, necropoleis) ruins and forgotten places heterotopias and heterochronies toponymy and topoanalysis cartography and mapmaking The conference will bring together scholars from different fields including philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, linguistics, architecture, geography and others. Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 1 February, 2019 to: [email protected]. Download paper proposal form. Standard registration fee – 220 GBP Student registration fee – 180 GBP

The Place of Memory and Memory of Place- International Conference will be held in Oxford,United Kingdom on date 2019-06-23

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Deadline for abstracts/proposals : 1st February 2019

Keynote Speakers :

Venue :St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

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