CFP 19.11.2014

The Rhetorics and Aesthetic of Memory (Dallas, 6-7 Mar 15)

Department of Art History, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 06.–07.03.2015
Eingabeschluss : 01.12.2014

Alice Heeren

Call for Papers
The Rhetorics and Aesthetic of Memory
Graduate Conference

Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Rothberg
Professor and Head of the Department of English, and Director of the
Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Initiative at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Memory functions in several multifaceted dimensions: individual,
familial, local, regional, national, and international. Whether memory
can be read as an individual construction or as national one, whether it
is a negotiation of trauma or a tool for the construction of individual
or national identity, artists have explored the concept through various
strategies, media, and across history. We invite papers that discuss how
the question of memory impacts art and visual culture throughout
history.

Themes may include, but are not limited to:

- art as reconfiguration of individual memory
- construction of photo albums and familial memory
- negotiations of trauma
- representations of national or collective memory
- challenging existing representations of memory
- historical memory
- use of technology to disseminate individual or collective memory
- testimony as exercise of memory
- spectral spaces and geographies; phenomena of ‘haunting’
- memorialization
- material culture, sacred objects, culturally or politically charged
objects
- theories on affect; performativity of affect
- museums, archives, and records as sites or spaces of memory
- socio-political critique through memory
- parsing biography and autobiography
- ‘active’ forgetting

Please send 300 word abstracts and questions to rascagradgmail.com by
December 1st, 2014. Decisions will be made by December 15th.

Quellennachweis:
CFP: The Rhetorics and Aesthetic of Memory (Dallas, 6-7 Mar 15). In: ArtHist.net, 19.11.2014. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/8940>.

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