How do libraries and archives function as sites for preserving and constructing public memory?
Libraries, archives and other institutions (such as museums, cemeteries, heritage sites, and monuments) all function as sites where the public memory of individuals, events, and cultures are constructed and preserved. One might also add that libraries and archives in shaping memory also shape what is forgotten and repressed. This session is looking for papers that engage the many ways libraries and archives contribute to our understanding and misunderstanding of people, events, and cultures, as, for instance, that of first-nations and first-peoples. How do libraries and archives express and repress public memory? What are the ethical and technical issues involved in building and providing access to materials that will constitute public memory? What is the experience of scholars using library and archival collections as they create their own forms of public memory (articles, books)?
The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories (DIM'2015)Conference and ExhibitionAffiliated with the People?s Forum of CHoGM 2015Valletta, 24-25 June 2015First Call for PapersOBJECTIVESThe Commonwealth is one of the most striking...
CFP: Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting (Ne Orleans 2015) - Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference will be held April...
CFP: Conference on Public Memory and Ethnicity Conference Location: Portland, Oregon Conferene Date: October 26-28, 2007 CFP Deadline: August 1, 2007 The York Center for Public Memory Studies will sponsor a conference on Public Memory and Ethnicity this...
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on The Archive of the Future/The Future of the Archive April 6-7, 2007 Rochester, NY In his essay Valery Proust Museum, Adorno associates museums with death rationalized, pointing at how a modernized form...
Call for Articles: Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives. Despite the continuing rise of memory studies in various disciplines, there is yet no consistent, comprehensive, or metacritical publication accounting for the library as a specific...
