Conference / CFP: “In (the) Place of Memory” Interdisciplinary Conference / “Memory as History and Imagination” (student) (Russian State University)

Conference Dates: February 12, 2022 / March 11-12

CFP: “In (the) place of memory”: the historical past and literary imagination, an international interdisciplinary conference, Saturday, 12 February 2022, sponsored by the Institute of History and Philology, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). This conference addresses historical memory as approached by multiple humanistic disciplines: history, literature, and cultural studies. Questions to be considered include: the poetics of memory in fiction and non-fiction; historical/cultural memory as a function of literary process; personal and/or collective historical memory; historical memory and the reality of a work of art; postmemory (M. Hirsch); approaches to the reconstruction of the historical past in literature; fact and imagination in “historical” genres of writing; the role of imagination in the (re)construction of historical memory; the artist’s imagination and historical imagination; nostalgia and historical imagination; “places of memory” (P. Nora) and their representation in literature; “ruins”and historical memory in literature; memory and forgetting in artistic works. Working languages of the conference: Russian, English. To submit paper proposals and request additional information contact: Anatoly Korchinsky (korchinsky@mail.ru) or Viktoria Malkin (poetika@gmail.com).  See below for parallel student conference.

CFP Student Conference: Memory as History and Imagination: Visual Representation in Literature and Culture. March 11–12, 2022. Sponsored by the Institute of History and Philology, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Paper proposals from graduate students and advanced undergraduates are invited for an international conference dedicated to the poetics of memory and to its visual representation. Abstract submission recommendations: the category of memory should be addressed conceptually and approached analytically, with emphasis on either artistic or scholarly texts, the research question and approaches to it formulated concretely. Abstract format: Word, Times New Roman, 12pt, single-spaced, Last Name, First Name [Patronymic], department, institution in upper left corner; length 1–1.5 pp. The conference will be conducted either in hybrid (Zoom and in person) or entirely on Zoom. Participants will be required to attend all sessions. Additional information available at: https://vk.com/visual_conf_2022https://www.facebook.com/events/355714999658076 or https://vk.com/visual_in_literature
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