[ANPPOM-L] CFP: Interdisciplinary Conference on the Holocaust

[Carlos Palombini]

Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Conference on the Holocaust


TRAJECTORIES OF MEMORY:
INTERGENERATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST
IN HISTORY AND THE ARTS

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
BOWLING GREEN, OHIO/USA

MARCH 23-26, 2006


PROPOSAL DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15, 2005

We invite scholars across academic disciplines (history, literature,
musicology, visual and musical arts, political science, religious studies,
philosophy, psychology and sociology) to present new research on
explorations of the effect of the Holocaust on the present and on the ways
in which the present understands, defines and/or represents that past.
Possible questions to consider would include: the evolution of the
Holocaust as discourse; how does one negotiate the language of the
Holocaust as survivors die, leaving future generations responsible for the
vocalization of their memories; what are the limits of acceptable discourse
when discussing the Shoah? How do survivors of perpetrators and bystanders
navigate through feelings of guilt and responsibility? How do survivors
talk to each other and how do they talk to their children?

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Marianne Hirsch (Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
Leo Spitzer (History, Columbia University)
Atina Grossmann (History, Cooper Union, New York University)

SAMPLE TOPICS:

o Memory as both a cultural and an individual phenomenon
o Generational memory: the relationship of  intergenerational memories
mediated through
	recollection (on the part of witnesses) and mediated through
"imaginative investment
	and creativity" (M. Hirsch)
o Memory in public culture, i.e., memorials
o National memory
o Memory and witness testimony
o Postmemory and modes of representation
o Ways in which modes of visual, literary, musical and historical
representation shape
	private and public memory
o Representation of the Holocaust as an effect of the repetition or
proliferation of texts,
	images, iconic figures
o Gender and the construction of memory
o Memory and the discourse of authenticity in Holocaust studies

Please send abstracts of individual papers (1-2-pages) and/or complete
panel proposals (with 3 presenters and a commentator) by October 15, 2005
to the following individuals:
For History:	For German Literature and Film:
Beth Griech-Polelle	Christina Guenther
bgriech em bgnet.bgsu.edu	cguenth em bgnet.bgsu.edu

For Theater:	For English Literature and Film:
John Sebestyen	Ramona Dunckel
johnsebestyen em hotmail.com	mdunk527 em yahoo.com

For Music (including musicology):	For Grad and Undergrad Student
Sessions:
Marilyn Shrude and Mary Natvig	jonklei em bgnet.bgsu.edu
mshrude em bgnet.bgsu.edu	blanken em email.unc.edu
mnatvig em bgnet.bgsu.edu

For all other topics and additional information:
Beth Griech-Polelle and Christina Guenther
bgriech em bgnet.bgsu.edu
cguenth em bgnet.bgsu.edu

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>