CFP: Home, Memory, and Narrative (grad) (Australia) (5/27/05; 9/30/05-10/1/05)

9th Annual Conference
EMAPS: English, Media Studies, and Art History Postgraduate Society
30th September – 1 October 2005
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Re-Membering Place, Dis-Membering Home

Home is an emotionally charged and politically fraught concept. How home and
place intersect with memory is the topic of our upcoming conference. Decades
long critical discussions of memory and narrative in discussion of place and
belonging, trauma theory's examinations of memory and narrative in constituting
personal subjectivities and cultural identities have opened up new ways of
understanding history. We are discovering that the past is not dead. It might
be said that old hometruths are under renovation. We invite considerations of
home, place, narrative, and memory from multi- and interdisciplinary
backgrounds, in the arts and social sciences. Possible topics might consider,
but are not limited to, the areas of:

Nation Narration, Cultural Memory
Multiculturalism and Belonging
Autoethnography, Memoir/ Public vs. Private Memory
Inclusion and Exclusion
Indigenous Narratives of Place and Belonging
Refugee and Asylum Issues
Translation and Displacement
Boundaries and Borders – social and political
Land Claims
Memorialization
The Politics of Homeland Security
Counter-memory/ Revisionist Histories
Trauma and Recovery, in the context of Place and Memory Place and Forgetting
Immigration and “Homeland”
Historical Amnesias
Diaspora and Remembering Origin(s)
The Rhetoric of Haunting
Home and Place in Religious Contexts
Home and Capital
The Sociology of Space, Mapping, Architecture
Intersections of Gender with Home
Race/Ethnicity and Home, Memory
Class and Home, Memory

Postgraduate students and early career researchers are encouraged to submit
proposals for 20 minute papers to: wip_at_uq.edu.au
by 27 May 2005.
Please note that abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.

Guest speakers include Professor Peter Read, author of Belonging (Cambridge
UP, 2000) and Returning to Nothing. The Meaning of Lost Places. (Cambridge UP,
1996)

-- 
Rob Edwards, Victoria Kuttainen,and Rachel Slater
Co-Convenors 
School of English, Media Studies and Art History
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au
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