SPACE, IDENTITIES AND
MEMORY
Birkbeck Institutes
of Social Research and the Humanities Graduate Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
Space, Identities and
Memory
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 11/03/2016.
We invite postgraduate researchers, academics, activists,
artists, and practitioners from across disciplines to contribute to the
Birkbeck Institutes’ (BIH/BISR) annual two day conference held from the 13th to
the 14th May 2016.
This year’s conference theme seeks to examine the interplay
between identity, space and memory, exploring the ways in which identities may
be created, formed and informed by spatial and temporal contexts. In
particular, we seek to examine to what extent identities are performed in
response to political, social and cultural pressures, including historical
circumstances leading to the construction of acceptable and unacceptable
identities.
The conference aims to capture the complex overlaying of
identities in time and space, and the agency of individuals and communities as
they address their own complex understandings of the temporality of identity.
Conversely, we hope the conference will highlight how space and time are
influenced and shaped by everyday life, sociabilities, mobilisations and
processes of subjectivation. In particular we are seeking papers that engage
with topics such as:
- · The built environment: how are housing,
architecture, urbanity and concepts of public and private space harnessed in
the self-fashioning of individual and communal identity?
- · Gender, sexuality and race, the politics of becoming
and the deterritorialisation of the body;
- · ’Home’, domesticity and concepts of solitude and
isolation across time and space;
- · Spaces of dissent and resistance: how is memory
imbricated in public spaces as sites of encounters, direct action and creative
practices?
- · Displacements and borders: constructing or
disassembling boundaries from local to global;
- · Explorations in the use of maps, social
cartography and critical geography;
- · Exclusion and inclusion in institutional spaces:
how have institutionalised spaces cemented or challenged contemporary and past
perspectives on identity?
- · Narrating the past: memorialisation,
contestation and re-enactment
- · Innovative methods and approaches in the
investigation of the intersections between space, identity and memory
Our first confirmed keynote speaker is Andy Merrifield. The conference will conclude with a round table
bringing together activists, practitioners and academics.
This is an interdisciplinary conference, designed to foster
creative thinking and new research agendas. To this end, we encourage papers
from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds that explore the interconnections
of space, identity and memory.
We are particularly interested in receiving contributions
from artists and practitioners in education, the heritage sector or related
fields to participate in this interdisciplinary conference.
Proposals
We warmly welcome abstracts for 20-minute panel papers.
Abstracts should be between 200-300
words in length. Please include a short biography with your submission.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 11/03/2016. Authors will be notified regarding the acceptance of
their paper after submissions have been reviewed and no later than 31/03/2016.
Contact Details
Please send enquiries and proposals to Beth Hodgett,
Calum Wright, Eva Lauenstein & Moniza Rizzini at:
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