PUBLIC MEMORY RESEARCH CENTRE CONFERENCE 2009
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND, TOOWOOMBA, QLD
13-14 FEBRUARY 2009
‘LEGACIES 09’
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
SYLVIA LAWSON, WRITER, HISTORIAN, CULTURAL CRITIC
PROFESSOR MARILYN LAKE, HISTORIAN, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
According to John Bodnar, ‘Public Memory is a body of beliefs and ideas about the past that help a public or society understand its past, present, and by implication, its future.’ In distinction from conventional history, Public Memory research fashions a relation between past and present which, whether real or imagined, asserts the important shaping spirit of the past and its persistence in everyday life. Public Memory is also concerned with the past as a potential resource for new social directions: every act of scholarly retrieval might contribute to a project of cultural renewal.
Under the general theme of ‘Legacies’, the conference invites submissions for individual papers and proposals for panel sessions or group presentations in the areas of
- Culture, retrieval and revival
- Memory and the practice of everyday life
- History, ideology and refashioning the past
- Colonialism and its aftermaths
- Indigenous, ethnic and multicultural memories
- Public memory and national identities
- Memory and myth
- Public memory as false consciousness
‘LEGACIES 09’ welcomes papers or presentations in disciplinary and inter-disciplinary fields such as Anthropology, History, Literature, Theatre Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, Multicultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Whiteness Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Media and Communications, Sociology and Political Theory. ‘LEGACIES 09’ invites submissions from professional academics, postgraduate students and non-academic cultural practitioners.
PLEASE DIRECT ABSTRACTS (300 WORDS) OR CONFERENCE ENQUIRIES TO
Dr Brian Musgrove Dr Lara Lamb
musgrove@usq.edu.au lamb@usq.edu.au
07 46 311043 07 46 311069
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 30 SEPTEMBER 2008
ACCEPTANCES NOTIFIED BY 31 OCTOBER 2008
WEBSITE WITH FULL CONFERENCE DETAILS ACCESSIBLE 1 JULY 2008
