CALL FOR PAPERS: Memory: 1500-1800 Friday, February 25, 2005, UCSB Early Modern Center CFP Deadline:  Monday, November 15th, 2004

The Early Modern Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara and its affiliates invite paper proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on the Center’s 2004-2005 theme, “Memory: 1500-1800.” This one-day conference will explore the many functions and meanings of memory throughout the early modern period.   

The program will include nine panelists representing a variety of disciplines, as well as talks by the following invited speakers:

·     Marvin Carlson, Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York

·     Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Professor of History at Stanford University

·     Richard Helgerson, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara

PROPOSALS

We invite proposals from all disciplines, as well as proposals for interdisciplinary papers that use a variety of approaches. Submissions are encouraged to define memory creatively, whether historically, psychologically, culturally, aesthetically, empirically, etc.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

The Palimpsestic

Construction of Collective or National Memory

Construction of Individual Memory

Memorializing

Ruins, Fragments

Forgetting

Sense of a Past and Future

Adaptations

Archiving (including Archiving Technologies)

Remembering/ Dismembering/ Dysmembering 

Proposals for 15-minute papers are due by November 1, 2004, and should take the form of a 250-word abstract. Please submit your abstract online at: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2004-2005/online_submission.asp

If necessary, you may also email your proposal to emc_conference_05@yahoo.com.