[Oberlist] UK* CfP: Memory, history, morality: the socialist past today, Newcastle, 11-12.9.2008

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Subject: [balkans] CfP: Memory, history, morality: the socialist past
today, Newcastle, 11-12.9.2008
From:    "Beryl Nicholson" <beryl6b la yahoo.co.uk>
Date:    Sun, January 20, 2008 18:24
To:      balkans la yahoogroups.com
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 From:	"Anselma Gallinat"
> <anselma.gallinat la newcastle.ac.uk>
>
> Conference: Memory, history, morality: the socialist
> past today
>
> 11-12th September 2008, Newcastle University (UK)
>
> Memory and history, it has been argued, are closely
> connected to
>  identity, both communal and individual. Memory and
> history are therefore
> also
>  made in the present according to present demands.
> Yet, the past
>  sometimes also presses into the present, or, as
> Bergson writes 'the past
> that
>  is gnawing on present and future'.
>
> In the post-socialist context representations and
> memories of the past
>  come about in often tense political climates; more
> often than not the
>  representations themselves are political. Against
> the backdrop of the
>  transformation that deeply affected the values and
> norms that govern how
>  individuals can portray themselves, how the past is
> remembered and
>  talked about becomes also a deeply moral question.
>
> The conference seeks to explore such trajectories in
> a variety of
>  post-socialist societies. It is part of an
> ethnographic project on the
>  'Socialist Past in Eastern Germany' which takes an
> anthropological
> approach
>  (the project is funded by the ESRC, Economic and
> Social Research
>  Council, UK). The conference is intended to allow
> for comparison of and
>  exchange about how the socialist past is
>  managed/re-worked/silenced/re-membered at
> collective, individual and
> inter-personal levels in different
>  post-socialist contexts. It is envisioned that the
> event may give rise to
>  a network of scholars from East and Central Europe
> and the former
>  Soviet Union with such research interests.
>
> The organisers are encouraging in particular
> scholars working 'at home'
>  in East- and central Europe and the former Soviet
> Union to apply.
>  Contributions taking an anthropological and
> ethnographic approach, and
>  those in related disciplines, are also particularly
> welcome. Funding to
>  assist with travel and accommodation costs is
> available.
>
> Topics may include but are not limited to:
>
>
> *	life-stories/biographies of 'victims',
> 'perpetrators', 'ordinary
>  citizens' (and/or those in-between)
> *	critical explorations of categories such as
> 'ordinary citizens',
>  'victims' or 'perpetrators'
> *	contributions dealing with the legacies of
> socialism (history
>  writing; memorials, state security police files,
> etc.)
> *	public discourse and debates about the past
> *	cultures of memory; changes to memory culture
> *	memories and/or uses of the past in everyday
> lives; and/or
>  politically
> *	history-writing; social memory
> *	morality; politics
>
>
>
> Please send abstracts of up to 400 words to:
>  <mailto:anselma.gallinat la ncl.ac.uk>
> anselma.gallinat la ncl.ac.uk
>  <mailto:anselma.gallinat la ncl.ac.ukDeadline>
> Deadline: 29th of February 2008.
>
> The project can be found at
> http://the-socialist-past.ncl.ac.uk
>  <http://the-socialist-past.ncl.ac.uk/>
>
> Conference organisers are:
>
> Dr. Anselma Gallinat; School of Geography, Politics
> and Sociology;
>  Newcastle University
> Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU
> anselma.gallinat la ncl.ac.uk
> <mailto:anselma.gallinat la ncl.ac.uk>
>
> Dr. Sabine Kittel; School of Geography, Politics and
> Sociology;
>  Newcastle University
> Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU
> sabine.kittel la ncl.ac.uk
> <mailto:sabine.kittel la ncl.ac.uk>
>
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