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Call for Papers - Collective vs Collected Memories. 1989–91 from an Oral History Perspective

Conference venue: Warsaw, Poland
Period: November 6-8, 2014
Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 15, 2014


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Description

The twenty-fifth anniversary of 1989 in Eastern Europe invites us to analyze the gradual transformation of memories of the collapse of state socialism at individual and collective levels. It offers us an opportunity to historicize the ‘memory boom’ that began in 1989/1991 and continues to define the cultures of the region. The Genealogies of Memory program invites scholars engaged in memory studies, oral history, or biographical research to discuss their conceptual agendas, focusing on how the change has been commemorated, remembered, or forgotten in Eastern Europe and beyond.

Eligible topics

The conference hopes to address the following questions in particular:

We especially welcome papers that, beyond analyzing individual cases, promise more general reflections on collective versus individual memory as (non-)corresponding research tools. Such reflections importantly present in the scholarship of the first half of the twentieth century, have acquired renewed relevance in cultural studies, sociology, psychology, social psychology, and oral history.  Can we use existing or other conceptualizations effectively to bridge the gap between the individual and the collective or, alternatively, to disentangle the two when we talk about the memory of 1989–1991? How best can we do so?

Comparative perspectives are a crucial aspect of the Genealogies of Memory conferences and, accordingly, we would welcome papers that discuss analogous issues with reference to the collapse of authoritarian regimes in southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, or Asia. We also intend to include a limited number of papers focused solely on theoretical issues.

Conference Committee

Convenors: Piotr Filipkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences), Ferenc Laczó (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena), Franka Maubach (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Burkhard Olschowsky (ENRS, Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe), Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw).

Advisory Board: Jeffrey K. Olick (University of Virginia), Małgorzata Pakier (Museum of the History of Polish Jews), Gertrud Pickhan (Free University of Berlin), Joachim von Puttkamer (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena), Jan Rydel (ENRS), Miroslav Vaněk (Charles University Prague), Matthias Weber (Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe).

Guidelines for submission

The language of the conference will be English.
Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words together with a short biographical statement by 15 May 2014. Abstracts will be selected by the academic committee. We will notify you about the acceptance of your proposal by 15 June 2014. If accepted, you must submit your conference paper by 6 October in order to have it distributed to commentators in advance.

Conference participation is free of charge. For early career researchers, a limited number of travel stipends will be made available.
We plan to publish selected papers in a peer-reviewed journal or in a volume by an established international publisher.

Please send your abstract and a biographical statement as well as all other inquiries to genealogies@enrs.eu .

Organizers

Information & contacts

European Network Remembrance and Solidarity
e-mail: genealogies@enrs.eu

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