When: |
17 Jun through 18 Jun 2022 | |
CFP Deadline: |
31 |
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Where: |
Oxford, United Kingdom | |
Website URL: |
https://memory.lcir.co.uk | |
Sponsoring organization: |
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research | |
Categories: |
Social Sciences - Psychology |
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Event description:
“The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place” International Conference
*Selected papers will be published in a post-conference volume with an ISBN number.
Memory is a major theme in contemporary life, a key to personal, social and cultural identity. Scholars have studied the concept from different perspectives and within different disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, urban design, and the interdisciplinary “place studies”. According to Pierre Nora, places of memory or lieux de mémoire refer to those places where “memory crystallizes and secretes itself”; the places where the exhausted capital of collective memory condenses and is expressed. To be considered as such, these sites must be definable in the three senses of the word: material, symbolical and functional, all in different degrees but always present. What makes them a memory site is the interplay of memory and history, the interaction of both factors, which allows their reciprocal ...
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