[Englecturers] Call for Papers: Memory, 4th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society

[John Ganim]

>MEMORY, 4th Annual Symposium of the International Medieval Society, Paris
>
>Dates: 27-29 June 2007
>Location: Paris, France
>Deadline for Submissions: 15 January 2007
>Keynote speakers: Mary Carruthers (New York 
>University) and Jean-Claude Schmitt (École des 
>Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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 *
>
>Abstracts of no more than 300 words for a 
>20-minute paper should be e-mailed to 
><mailto:contact at ims-paris.org>contact at ims-paris.org 
>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.
>
>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: <http://www.ims-paris.org/>www.ims-paris.org.
>
>ADDENDUM: Special Session on Memories of the Middle Ages
>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.
>For this special session, please submit 
>abstracts via email by November 30 to:
>Janet T. Marquardt, Professor of Art History
>Art Department, Eastern Illinois University
><mailto:jtmarquardt at eiu.edu>jtmarquardt at eiu.edu
>

John M. Ganim
President, New Chaucer Society
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
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Riverside CA 92521
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EMAIL John.Ganim at UCR.EDU
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