CULTURAL MEMORY - DEADLINE EXPANSION - 10 DECEMBER 2014
Dear all,
For those of you who would (have) like(d) to send us an article on these theme, I just wanted to let you know it's still time. I will (re)attach the cfp and........well......looking forward to hearing from you!
Best wishes,
Phd Lecturer Sorina Georgescu
HYPERCULTURA
BIANNUAL JOURNAL
OF THE
THE DEPARTMENT OF LETTERS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES
-THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL, HUMANISTIC AND NATURAL SCIENCES-
HYPERION UNIVERSITY
BUCHAREST
INVITES YOU
TO SEND THE FINAL VERSION OF YOUR ARTICLES FOR OUR VOLUME ENTITLED
CULTURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY AS (A) MEANS OF PROGRESS
Theme
CULTURAL MEMORY is one of the many ways of remembering the past. The lived history may become the focus of studies centering on archives (of collections and heritage), life writing (history through the lens of journals, diaries, fiction, news and official reports), community (including family) history, oral life-story narratives, written life histories (autobiographical writing, reminiscence work, the creation of images, i.e the teenagers that communicate nowadays via tablets with AVATAR identities), public history (i.e the way official history has been publicly assimilated). Cultural memory studies share with the above listed interests the past time reference. However, its scope of investigation adds to it the relation of the past to the present, as well as memory, culture and identity. Consequently, this multiple perspective invites an interdisciplinary approach: cultural, political, managerial, psychological, marketing, etc. Put simply, it is not that a culture has got canonical authors and heritage works but what it makes of them, how it remembers them and how remembrance feeds cultural identity. History is what we know or believe we know about the past. Cultural memory is what we remember /forget and why.
This angle of approaching the past is already in its third wave of development if we do not take into consideration the Ancient old concerns about memory. The crossroads of culture and memory have been the object of reference in the work of such scholars as Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson or Emile Durkheim. However, it was the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs who coined the term collective memory in the third decade of the last century. His work was reconsidered and built up upon by Ian Assman almost half a century later. Nowadays, a range of academic institutions of high repute have developed research centres dedicated to furthering the conceptual basis of this field as well as its instrumental awareness raising edge.
This interest has been obviously boosted by the advance of an age shaped by both technological advances and ecological concerns. The blog, the emergence of viewology (the practice of writing computerized abstracts of the life of the deceased to be buried along with their owner), the on-line memorials, the white ghost-bike are just a few examples that seem to point, in our view, to a fourth stage, when memory related products have ceased to be only the object of high brow research and entered a new consumption stage when one can design virtual memorabilia. That is why we invite discussions and contributions that relate to both the research as well as the consumerist value of
- Present (digital) vs. traditional ways of representing memory (narrative, oral, textual, visual, material) in a cultural context
- collective remembering and forgetting of the Romanian "Golden Age"
- collective remembering and personal memories
- tribal/oral memory – written memory
- the literature of memory as trend-setters
- inter-war (or other) Romania mediated by fiction/media products
- from literary journals to today's blogs or on-line memorials
- memorials as implements of institutionalized power
- teachers and scholars as guardians of cultural memory
- literature as guardian of cultural values
- the road from personal to public memory
- cultural memory and media technology
- diachronic language studies
- other, at participant's suggestion
Saint Augustine once wrote: There are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present and a present of things future. The present of things past is memory. The present of things future is sight and the present of things future is expectation". A discussion about memory is a discussion about values and life.
The articles should feature:
1) the title – in the language of the article
2) the abstract – 150-200 words; only in English;
- with the following structure:
- 1 or 2 general statements introducing the your topic
- statement of the general problem/ the object of your analysis
- statement of procedure, main results and conclusions
- statement of relevance with respect to the state of the art in your domain of analysis or implications of your results (short and clear)
3) key-words – in the language of the article and in Romanian
- 5 key-words
4) Language of the article – we strongly encourage articles written in foreign languages (English, French, Spanish), but especially in English
5) Length of the article – 10-20 pages; 1 page = 2000 signs (with spaces)
6) Fonts – Times New Roman, 12, 1.5 spaced; A4; margins – 2.5 cm each; indented with tab; justified
7) Citation style – MLA 2011 – see attachment (articles with citation errors will be sent back to their authors for remedy)
8) Short bio: maximum 200 words, only in English
The articles must be:
1) original
2) topic-oriented (the theme of our volume)
3) analytic
4) linguistically correct (make sure you check your grammar, spelling and vocabulary before submitting your article; articles with language errors will be sent back to authors for self-correction)
The articles will be:
- sent to reviewers for recommendations – double-blind peer-review (the reviewers will not know your names and you will not know theirs)
- selected articles will be published in the Hypercultura Biannual Journal, "Tracus Arte", publishing house - C (CNCS Category)
Deadline: 10 December 2014
Papers will be sent to:
sorinamaria21@gmail.com