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CFP: Archives: From Memory to Event (UCL English Postgraduate Conference)
UCL English Postgraduate Conference
March 9th 2007
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
London
Deadline: November 1st, 2006
In recent years the word 'archive' has been used to describe many things. An archive is first of all a physical place that houses documents or material relating to a specific person, event or time period. However, Michel Foucault uses the term archive more generally to describe 'the system
of the formation and transformation of statements' - a set of rules that determines what can be said in a given context. Jacques Derrida identifies the archive as a site of power, which is manifested by the act of assembling, structuring and interpreting signs. According to his theories, archiving techniques are far from innocent in the archival process: they determine the content of the archive itself. Derrida stresses the materiality of the archive. He later suggests, however, that one should 'take into account unconscious, and more generally virtual archives'.
Discussions around the archive evolve between different poles: Is the archive actual or virtual; is it a place or a set of ordering principles; or does the archive operate as place and principle simultaneously? Does it document certain historical events or does it in effect create events
through its own assembled narrative? What is its effect on the content it organizes?
We welcome contributions from the humanities, the social sciences and the arts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
. discussions of specific archives and their relation to individual or collective memory and commemorative acts
. the (literary) text as archive and monument
. self-narration and autobiography as a way of constructing archived and archivable memory
. the archiving and remembering of traumatic events
. questions of power with regard to the archive and memory/commemoration
. literature on mourning and its structuring of memory and commemoration
. self-censorship and confession in texts which stage the archiving of memory
. memory and the possibility of the archive in 'unfinishing' texts
Proposal submission deadline: November 1st 2006
250 words limit
Please send proposals to [email protected]
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CFP: Archives: From Memory to Event (UCL English Postgraduate Conference)
CFP: Archives: From Memory to Event (UCL English Postgraduate Conference)
UCL English Postgraduate Conference
March 9th 2007
Institute of English Studies
Senate House
London
Deadline: November 1st, 2006
In recent years the word 'archive' has been used to describe many things. An archive is first of all a physical place that houses documents or material relating to a specific person, event or time period. However, Michel Foucault uses the term archive more generally to describe 'the system
of the formation and transformation of statements' - a set of rules that determines what can be said in a given context. Jacques Derrida identifies the archive as a site of power, which is manifested by the act of assembling, structuring and interpreting signs. According to his theories, archiving techniques are far from innocent in the archival process: they determine the content of the archive itself. Derrida stresses the materiality of the archive. He later suggests, however, that one should 'take into account unconscious, and more generally virtual archives'.
Discussions around the archive evolve between different poles: Is the archive actual or virtual; is it a place or a set of ordering principles; or does the archive operate as place and principle simultaneously? Does it document certain historical events or does it in effect create events
through its own assembled narrative? What is its effect on the content it organizes?
We welcome contributions from the humanities, the social sciences and the arts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
. discussions of specific archives and their relation to individual or collective memory and commemorative acts
. the (literary) text as archive and monument
. self-narration and autobiography as a way of constructing archived and archivable memory
. the archiving and remembering of traumatic events
. questions of power with regard to the archive and memory/commemoration
. literature on mourning and its structuring of memory and commemoration
. self-censorship and confession in texts which stage the archiving of memory
. memory and the possibility of the archive in 'unfinishing' texts
Proposal submission deadline: November 1st 2006
250 words limit
Please send proposals to [email protected]
- Cfp For Mla 2015: Libraries, Archives And Public Memory (modern Language Association - Vancouver, Bc, Canada)
CFP for MLA 2015: Libraries, Archives and Public MemoryCFP sponsored by MLA Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures Discussion GroupURL: http://mlalibraries.commons.mla.org/2014/01/15/cfp-for-mla-2015-libraries-archives-and-public-memory/MLA...
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CFP: Exploring the Archive in the Digital Age conference Exploring the Archive in the Digital Age Conference Department of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King?s College London 6 ? 8 May 2010 Deadline 2-26-2010 The main...
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CFP: Archive Trouble - Society for Textual Scholarshop program at Modern Langugage Association The Society for Textual Scholarship (www.textual.org) is organizing the following panel at the 2007 MLA Convention in Chicago: ARCHIVE TROUBLE The archive (broadly...
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CFP: Specter of the Archive (ELN, English Language Notes) The deadline for submissions for ELN issue 45.1 (Spring 2007) has been extended to Dec. 15, 2006. Call for Publications, ELN 45.1, Spring 2007: The Specter of the Archive A respected forum since...