CALL FOR PAPERS, PERFORMANCES, MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
One-Day Conference to be held April 30th, 1999, at the University of Virginia
on
**********Alternative Forms of Memorialization***********
The Center on Critical Human Survival Issues (based in the UVA Department
of Anthropology) is hosting a one day, interdisciplinary conference on the
topic of alternative forms of memorialization.
Abstract:
Alternative Forms of Memorialization
Public memorials have typically been either buildings, statues,
sculptures or some other kind of public structure, usually located either
near the site of the event/person being memorialized or in the center of
public and political life (Wash. DC, etc.). However, with the increased
attention paid during the last decade, both in the academy and in the
broader public sphere, to the importance of memorials and memorialization,
there seems to have been an accompanying shift in attention from a focus on
grand, public and "sited" forms of memorialization to the development of
alternative forms of memorialization. These alternative forms include, but
are not limited to, projects like:
-the AIDS quilt,
-graffiti and wall murals in South Africa, the US and Northern Ireland,
-historic apologies and handshakes,
-memorialization in cyberspace
-truth commissions, their reports and databases,
-new Civil War sites that have until now gone unnoticed,
-impromptu streetside memorials (Oklahoma City, Buckingham Palace, etc.)
-the German Holocaust memorial
How and where we construct our memorials speaks to how and where we
imagine memory does its work. Does this apparent development in memorial
practice signal a change in conceptions of memory, here or abroad? What
can we learn from other forms of memorial practice? In India, for example,
where memory is not necessarily spatialized the way it has been elsewhere,
what does the process of memorialization look like? What might Indian
memorial practice, or any other, tell us about shifts in our own memorial
practice?
The conference format is still flexible and we are looking for
anyone with ideas for short papers presentations (15-20 minutes),
disucssion/panel formats, displays or exhibits, performance or multi-media.
For more information contact,
Christopher Colvin
Center on Critical Human Survival Issues
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
cjc5r@virginia.edu
(804) 977-8128
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
cjc5r@virginia.edu
(804) 977-8128
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