CFP: Young researchers conference: Writing the past/ righting memory
CFP: YOUNG RESEARCHERS CONFERENCE: WRITING THE PAST/RIGHTING MEMORY Submissions of abstract due by October 1, 2014 Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Miami University, Oxford, Ohio This conference will focus on the region of Russia, Eastern Europe and/or Eurasia and will include discussion on memory and history, remembering and forgetting, commemoration, institutionalization and marketing of memory in the context of...
CfP: School vs. Memory
School vs. Memory Prague, Czech Republic October 10-11, 2014 Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 11, 2014 In Central European countries, a tension potentially arises between history education in schools and memory at the level of family, social group or community. Memory as a concept describing a plurality of modes of relating to the past has gained ground both in the humanities and in social sciences. Memory replaces or...