28-29. aprillil 2022 toimub Kopenhaageni \u00dclikoolis “T\u00f5lgitud m\u00e4lu” kaaskorraldatud konverents “Mnemonic Migration: Transcultural Transmission, Translation and Circulation of Memory Across and Into Contemporary Europe”. Kandideerimise t\u00e4htaeg on 26. september 2021. T\u00e4psem info: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This conference aims to explore how memories travel through the aesthetic medium of literature and are translated into new local communities of remembering. The conference concentrates on the travel of memories (Erll 2011) within or into the cultural, geographical and symbolic boundaries of Europe, perhaps fostering new knowledge and attention to events that are otherwise marginalized in a Westernized perspective on the European past and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Ann Rigney and Astrid Erll (2009), fictional literature is a significant medium of cultural memory that has the ability of \u201csparking public debates on historical topics that had hitherto been marginalized or forgotten.\u201d This conference looks at transcultural memory formations that are generated: 1) by the mobility of people across or into Europe and 2) by the production of \u201ctranscultural memorial forms\u201d (Laanes 2021) that translate experiences to other geographic arenas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Erll (2011), migrants can be seen as carriers of memory, understood as \u201cindividuals who share in collective images and narratives of the past.\u201d By expressing their mnemonic displacement \u2013 that is, their disorientation in the mnemonic framework of their host country together with their contrasting memories \u2013 migrant literature contributes to setting the agenda for future collective remembrance. This conference shall explore how this activity, which we would like to think of as mnemonic migration, speaks to the (re)construction of shared memories in Europe and\/or its countries and regions. Furthermore, we are interested in questioning which \u201ctranscultural memorial forms\u201d may be used to \u201cculturally translate experiences in order to make them known and intelligible to others,\u201d thus making memories travel (Laanes 2021).
Crucially, the successful travel of memories depends on reception by members of a mnemonic community. Therefore, this conference is also concerned with the reception and recirculation of transcultural memories, asking if novels, due to the \u201ctransformative power of the arts and their capacity to mobilize individuals through imagination and affect\u201d (Rigney 2014), may forge what Alison Landsberg (2004) has called prosthetic memory: that is, a deep-felt and empathetic connection to events one has not lived through. We are keen to explore how mediations of memory circulate, how they are received, and if and how they may develop into what we could think of as prosthetic memories in various European contexts, perhaps contributing to new memory canons within Europe.
We welcome papers that consider, but are not limited to, any of the following issues:
\u2022 Memory literature by authors who have migrated to or within Europe
\u2022 Reception and prosthetic memory
\u2022 World literature of memory in a European perspective
\u2022 Travelling memory
\u2022 Methodological considerations of studying transcultural memory in literature
\u2022 Methodological considerations of studying circulation, reception and prosthetic memory<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please send an abstract of 300 words and a short bio of 150 words to Jessica Ortner (ortner@hum.ku.dk) no later than 26 September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Organiser: Mnemonic Migration: Transnational Circulation and Reception of Wartime Memories in post-Yugoslav Migrant Literature (Independent Research Fund Denmark, 2019\u20132022, Jessica Ortner, Tea Sindb\u00e6k Andersen)
Co-organiser: Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena (ERC, 2020\u20132024, project leader Eneken Laanes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kopenhaageni \u00dclikooli ja “T\u00f5lgitud m\u00e4lu” projekti \u00fchiskorraldatud konverents “Mnemonic Migration: Transcultural Transmission, Translation and Circulation of Memory Across and Into Contemporary Europe”","protected":false},"author":4,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-840","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n