This has a section on war memorials, but other parts of it are relevant too.
Memory, Mourning, Landscape
An interdisciplinary, one-day symposium
University of Glasgow, 9 June 2008
Keynote speakers: Bridget Fowler (University of Glasgow), Avril Maddrell
(University of the West of England)
Plenary Lecturer: Jay Winter (Yale University)
Call for papers
One hundred years after Freud, the debate about how memory and mourning
work continues. Increasingly scholarly attention is paid to the role of
place and space in memorialising - whether in commemorations of individuals
or in marking mass deaths. At the same time, experts in a variety of fields
are finding new significance in the different ways of "saying goodbye" (or
not saying goodbye). The aim of this symposium is two-fold: to explore the
links between memory, mourning and landscape, and also to investigate more
deeply these themes as separate entities. The symposium will therefore be
of interest to scholars across the disciplines of the humanities and social
sciences, including, but not limited to: literature, ancient, medieval, and
modern languages, cultural studies, history of art, history, archaeology,
geography, theology, sociology, psychology, and archive studies.
The symposium will offer, for those interested, a round-table discussion on
fieldwork.
150-300 word abstracts are invited for15-minute papers. Please submit
abstracts by email (preferably as a word document attachment) to
mml.conference@ gmail.com, by 1 April 2008.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
· war memorials and monuments
· the theology of mourning
· spaces of memory
· the art of memory
· theories of place and space
· funeral and burial customs
· theories of bereavement, grief, and mourning
· liturgy and prayer
· literature of farewell: elegy, lament, valediction
· memorialisation
· memoir
· memorialising genocide
· traumatic memory
· artificial memory
· reconciliation
Further details will be made available via our website:
http://www.gla. ac.uk/department s/sesll/seminars andconferences/ conferencemem
orymourningandlands cape/
Please circulate widely.
Elizabeth Anderson, Siobhann McCafferty, Kate McLoughlin, Alana Vincent
Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts Department of English
Literature
Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities
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Ms. Naomi Farrington
Ph.D. Student
Corpus Christi College
Cambridge
CB2 1RH
nhf21@cam.ac. uk
07846359987
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Memory, Mourning, Landscape symposium
