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MEMORY, 4th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society,
Paris<br><br>
Dates: 27-29 June 2007<br>
Location: Paris, France<br>
Deadline for Submissions: 15 January 2007<br>
Keynote speakers: Mary Carruthers (New York University) and Jean-Claude
Schmitt (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)<br>
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The International Medieval Society of Paris (IMS-Paris) is soliciting
abstracts and proposals for complete sessions for its 2007 Symposium
organized around the theme of memory. The recollection and reconstruction
of the past generates many forms of expression and plays a fundamental
role in cultural production. A number of recent studies have shown the
complex ways in which memory works within individuals and cultures of the
Middle Ages. This symposium will contribute to this ongoing discourse by
examining, through diverse disciplines and media, how memory shaped
cultural practices and systems in France between c. 500 and c. 1500.
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Papers might address such topics as: the representation and
reconstruction of the past in art and architecture; the fabrication of
chronicles, records, and accounts; the establishment of types or genres;
the recollection of visions; the role of memory in the production of
tradition; the relationship between memory and innovation. How does
memory shape history, identities, emotions, and knowledge? How does the
absence of memory and ‘the forgotten’ work within society? Critical and
historiographic papers addressing the scholarship on the subject, such as
but not limited to Pierre Nora’s Lieux de mémoire, Eric Hobsbawm and
Terence Ranger’s Invention of Tradition, or Mary Carruthers’ Book of
Memory will also be welcome. A multidisciplinary examination of these and
other questions promises to shed new light on the creative force of
memory, and its absence, in medieval life.<br>
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We strongly encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines,
including but not limited to: Anthropology * Archaeology * Art History *
Classical Studies * Comparative Literature * Gender Studies * History *
History of Science * Language Studies * Literary Studies * Musicology *
Philosophy * Religious Studies * Theology * Urban Studies *<br>
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Abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 20-minute paper should be
e-mailed to
<a href="mailto:contact@ims-paris.org">contact@ims-paris.org</a> no later
than 15 January 2007. In addition to the abstract, please submit full
contact information, a CV, and a tentative assessment of any audiovisual
equipment required for your presentation.<br>
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The IMS will review submissions and respond via e-mail by 1 February
2007. Titles of accepted papers will be made available on the IMS web
site. Authors of accepted papers will be responsible for their own travel
costs and conference registration fee (35 euros, reduced for students).
The IMS-Paris is an interdisciplinary and bilingual (French/English)
organization founded to serve as a centre for medievalists who research,
work, study, or travel to France. For more information about the IMS and
the schedule of last year’s Symposium, please see our website:
<a href="http://www.ims-paris.org/">www.ims-paris.org</a>.<br>
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ADDENDUM: Special Session on Memories of the Middle Ages<br>
Our notions of the Middle Ages have been constructed out of cultural
memory, a process of selectively remembering and forgetting in order to
write a history of the past that sets up the desired shape of a nation’s
future. Beginning with the formulation of medieval chronicle entries
about the immediate past up through present-day studies, the process of
remembering events, people, and artifacts from the medieval period has
been negotiated according to the writer’s perspective. In this session,
we will present a few examples of how visual memories of the Middle Ages
were made in France during the late nineteenth century and early
twentieth centuries.<br>
For this special session, please submit abstracts via email by November
30 to: <br>
Janet T. Marquardt, Professor of Art History<br>
Art Department, Eastern Illinois University<br>
<a href="mailto:jtmarquardt@eiu.edu">jtmarquardt@eiu.edu</a><br>
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