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• 20 oct 2012

  Warsaw

  Study days - Sociology

  French Memory Studies Seminar

  The cycle of “Genealogies of Memory” seminars is conceived as an introduction to the conference “Regions of Memory” and its aim is to show the regional diversity of memory studies throughout Europe. During the seminar, researchers from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique will present their papers on some aspects of collective memory in France.

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• 20 jui 2012

  Warsaw

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Regions of Memory

  A comparative perspective on Eastern Europe

  Vis-à-vis the lasting memory boom now emerging as a global trend, we are asking then about regionally specific memory processes and research upon them in different parts of the globe. We welcome papers that answer one or more of the following questions: What kind of memory of mass violence accounts for regional specificity? What are the genealogies of collective and individual memories and forgetting related to mass violence in various regions? How and why do these images, narratives, and practices change and evolve? How do they influence the contemporary identity of a given region? And finally, how do scholars describe and interpret them? Do their concepts, categories and approaches follow the established Western patterns of memory studies?

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