{"id":1672,"date":"2017-06-27T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2017-06-27T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T10:55:36","slug":"call-for-papers-literary-cultural-historical-and-political-celebrations-across-and-beyond-the-british-isles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: Literary, Cultural, Historical and Political Celebrations across and beyond the British Isles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00ab Decentering Commemorations \u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literary, Cultural, Historical and Political Celebrations across and beyond the British Isles<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Friday 20th\u00a0October 2017
\nCampus LSH, Nancy and Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Nancy\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The year 2017-2018 marks multiple anniversaries that will be commemorated transnationally: the deaths of Mme de Sta\u00ebl and Jane Austen, the birth of Stanley Kubrick,\u00a0the release of The Beatles album \u201cSgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u201d, the end of World War One and the subsequent creation of new nation states, the Russian Revolution and the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. Why and how will these literary figures, cultural productions and historical events be remembered\/celebrated in individual countries and across Europe? In what ways and to what extent are these commemorations transferred from one cultural space to another across and beyond the British Isles?<\/p>\n

At a time of crisis concerning Europe\u2019s identity and ideals, commemorations are not only intended as a nation-building process, they can also be appropriated by social or political groups. There is, indeed, a variety of actors at national, regional, and local levels, such as cultural institutions, museums, political parties and social media.\u00a0The increasing mobility and instability in today\u2019s world triggers off the opposite tendency of going back to one\u2019s past, roots and heritage. Governments and lobbies\/corporations(such as Google) use landmarks to impose their readings of literary, cultural, and political history, while grassroots and communities gather together to organize their own\u00a0celebrations or to celebrate differently and sometimes more informally and spontaneously (like Halloween, Woman\u2019s Day, National Day, Labour Day, Earth Day).<\/p>\n

Papers discussing the following topics from a theoretical or practical perspective are welcome:<\/p>\n

-forms and modes of commemorating
\n-commemoration as an expression of soft power or a means of empowerment -commemoration and technology (the choice imposed by search engines, social networks,\u00a0e- media etc.)
\n-commemoration and cultural policies (celebrations through tourism, bilateral agreements, literary festivals etc.)
\n-commemoration and hyphenated\/conflicting identities (bi-nationals, and \u201cEuropean nationals\u201d) in the British Isles due to Devolution and Brexit
\n-posterity and literary canon (celebration of national and foreign authors)
\n-literary and visual adaptations
\n-publishing policies (book series, collected works, news items etc.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Invited speakers\u00a0(to be confirmed)<\/p>\n

Prof. Joachim Frenk (Universit\u00e9 de Sarrebruck, Allemagne)<\/p>\n

Dr. Stefano Dominioni (Directeur de l\u2019Institut Europ\u00e9en, Luxembourg)<\/p>\n

Submission information:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Proposals should not exceed 300 words (references excluded; 3 to 5 keywords and a short biography)
\nand be submitted to\u00a0decenteringcommemorations-contact@univ-lorraine.fr<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0July, 31st\u00a02017.<\/p>\n

Organising Committee:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antonella Braida-Laplace\u00a0antonella.braida-laplace@univ-lorraine.fr<\/a>
\nC\u00e9line Sabiron\u00a0celine.sabiron@univ.lorraine.fr<\/a>
\nRoseline Th\u00e9ron\u00a0roseline.theron@univ-lorraine.fr<\/a>
\nJeremy Tranmer\u00a0jeremy.tranmer@univ-lorraine.fr<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00ab Decentering Commemorations \u00bb Literary, Cultural, Historical and Political Celebrations across and beyond the British Isles   Friday 20th\u00a0October 2017 Campus LSH, Nancy and Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Nancy\u00a0 The year… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}