CFP: AMERICAN MOURNING (UK) (proposals: 01/31/01; conference: 05/11-12)
American Mourning
First call for papers
Date: Friday 11th May (starting late afternoon) ^V Saturday 12th May
(finishing early evening), 2001.
An interdisciplinary conference at Keele University, hosted by the
School of American Studies.
Cultural memory has attracted increasing and varied academic attention
across disciplines in recent years. The cultural attempts to remember
events that seem to defy representation or comprehension have been a
matter of particular scrutiny. In this light, memory studies has raised
the following questions. In what ways is mourning (or melancholia) a
response to memories that cannot be captured or explained or ^Qworked
through^R? In what ways is mourning a part of remembering? How does the
representation of memory function as mourning? In what ways is the
representation of memory the residue of what cannot be mourned or what
cannot even be remembered? While hoping to maintain the diversity of
memories studied and the varied approach to them, this conference will
seek to provide a focus for interdisciplinary memory studies in terms of
mourning on a North American cultural scene, the significance of what is
mourned there and how it is mourned. From the inception of mourning as
part of the cultural fabric of the nation in the face of its
foundational, genocidal events, to the current obsession with memory in
a supposedly amnesiac culture, we believe this American focus will
suggest a rich resource for conference papers.
Suggested topics:
Monuments, museums, memorials
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Vietnam War
Holocaust memory
Incest narratives and/or recovered memories of child abuse
Post-colonial memory
AIDS
Memories of slavery and/or genocide of Native Americans
Trauma
Postmodernism
Amnesia and forgetting
Mental illness
Sexuality
Gender
Race
Ethnicity
Class
Performance
Place and space
Haunting and ghosts
Deadline for abstracts (of no more than 300 words): 31st January, 2001.
(Conference papers should be no more than 20 minutes.)
Please send abstracts and requests for further information to:
Richard Crownshaw and Monica Pearl, School of American Studies,
Keele University, Keele, Staffs ST5 5BG, UK.
Tel. (Monica) 01782 583018; Tel. (Richard) 01782 583019
Email (Monica) m.pearl@ams.keele.ac.uk
Email (Richard) r.s.crownshaw@ams.keele.ac.uk
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