[csaa-forum] LEGACIES 09 CFP

[Laurie Johnson]

PUBLIC MEMORY RESEARCH CENTRE CONFERENCE 2009

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND, TOOWOOMBA, QLD
13-14 FEBRUARY 2009

'LEGACIES 09'

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

SYLVIA LAWSON, WRITER, HISTORIAN, CULTURAL CRITIC
PROFESSOR MARILYN LAKE, HISTORIAN, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY

According to John Bodnar, 'Public Memory is a body of beliefs and ideas
about the past that help a public or society understand its past,
present, and by implication, its future.' In distinction from
conventional history, Public Memory research fashions a relation between
past and present which, whether real or imagined, asserts the important
shaping spirit of the past and its persistence in everyday life. Public
Memory is also concerned with the past as a potential resource for new
social directions: every act of scholarly retrieval might contribute to
a project of cultural renewal.

Under the general theme of 'Legacies', the conference invites
submissions for individual papers and proposals for panel sessions or
group presentations in the areas of 

*	Culture, retrieval and revival
*	Memory and the practice of everyday life
*	History, ideology and refashioning the past
*	Colonialism and its aftermaths
*	Indigenous, ethnic and multicultural memories
*	Public memory and national identities
*	Memory and myth
*	Public memory as false consciousness

'LEGACIES 09' welcomes papers or presentations in disciplinary and
inter-disciplinary fields such as Anthropology, History, Literature,
Theatre Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, Multicultural Studies,
Indigenous Studies, Whiteness Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Theory,
Media and Communications, Sociology and Political Theory. 'LEGACIES 09'
invites submissions from professional academics, postgraduate students
and non-academic cultural practitioners.

PLEASE DIRECT ABSTRACTS (300 WORDS) OR CONFERENCE ENQUIRIES TO 
Dr Brian Musgrove		Dr Lara Lamb
musgrove at usq.edu.au	lamb at usq.edu.au
07 46 311043			07 46 311069

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 30 SEPTEMBER 2008
ACCEPTANCES NOTIFIED BY 31 OCTOBER 2008
WEBSITE WITH FULL CONFERENCE DETAILS ACCESSIBLE 1 JULY 2008



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