Е-мейл Оргкомитета: islaibconf2018@yahoo.com

Организаторы: Department of English at the Institut Supérieur des Langues Appliquées et d’Informatique de Béja (ISLAIB) in Tunisia in partnership with Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) in Alabama.

Texts act like receptacles for an ever present remembered past, or what the French philosopher Paul Ricœur calls “the present representation of an absent thing” (7).1 They might embody an efficient remedy to forgetting but could also become a vivid testimony for exorcised traumas, and “it is on this level and from this viewpoint that we can legitimately speak of wounded, even of sick memory” (Ricœur, 69). According to Ricoeur, “the work of mourning is the cost of the work of remembering, but the work of remembering is the benefit of the work of mourning” (72). Thus remembering brings back a bitter past but might heal revived memories. As to history, it is always in tension between memory and forgetting; it relies on memory and prevents from forgetting. But it is also questionable because it depends on its source and its context and sways between hiding and revealing.

During this conference the debate will focus on Ricœur’s phenomenology of memory, epistemology of history, and hermeneutics of forgetting. A special emphasis will be laid on the dissension between individual and collective institutional memory.

Topics will pivot around the relationship between history, memory and social justice in different academic fields such as history, political science, sociology, cultural studies, human rights, media studies, gender studies, anthropology, linguistics, literature, psychology, and pedagogy. Materials covered are historical documents, novels, short stories, poems, plays, autobiographies, biographies, texts, paintings, films, museums, national archives, etc. 

We welcome proposals focusing on, but not restricted to, the following topics:

Language and Linguistics

Text as memory
Socio/psychoanalysis of a text
Cognitive load theory,
Learning: memory& forgetting
Teaching history
Bilingual memory
Role of memory in second language and foreign language acquisition Linguistic memory
Language and memory
Memory and engaged learning

Cultural Studies

The historical and the political
History of ideas
Tunisian history and tradition
Cultural studies and historical approaches Individual and collective memory Socio-cultural dimension of memory History in the digital age

Digital memory and the archive Collective memory and history
Cities and the architecture of memory social justice and human rights

Literary Studies

Theories of memory Intentional fallacy Deconstruction
Historiography
Trauma and traumatic memory Film and memory

Historical movies
Art and memory
Art history
Memory, history, forgetting in novels, plays, and poems Literature for the reconstruction of history

Веб-сайт: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/08/29/history-memory