Remembering Jerusalem: Imagination, Memory, and the City
King's Collee London, 6-7 Novemer 2014
Organised by the AHRC-funded Research Network 'Imagining Jerusalem, 1099 to the Present Day'
Keynote speakers: Professor Anthony Bale (Birkbeck), Professor Eyal Weizman (Goldsmths).
Further keynotes TBA
Perhaps the world's most iconic city, Jerusalem exists both as a physical space and as a site of memory, ideas, and re-memberings. In art, literature, film, and history writing; in acts of public and private worship; and in communities across the globe, memories of Jerusalem have for centuries, been created, invoked, and relived. Ths cross-period, interdisciplinary conference invites paper and panel submissions on the theme of Jerusalem and Memory, c. 1099 to the Present Day. Topics may include, but need not be limited to:
- techniques of memorialsation / techniques of memory
- place, space and memory
- souvenirs, mementoes, and memory aids
- the materiaity (or immateriality) of memory
- memory and sensation
memory, land and environment
- memory and warfare
- memory and governance
- forgetting, false memory, and fictional remembering
narrative and memory
- memory and the archive
- national, local, and transnational memories
- memory and community
- ethnography as remembering
- ritual, repetition and performance
- sacred and secular memory
The organisers are particularly keen to receive panel submissions which address a shared theme across more than one discipline and/or historical period.
Abstracts of c. 300 words for a single paper and c. 1000 wods for panels consisting of three papers should be sent to imagining-jerusalem@york.ac.uk by 1st July 2014. For more detail or inquiries, please contact the sameaddress or vsit the Network website: http://jerusalems.wordpress.com.