9th Annual WIP Conference

—  EMAPS: English, Media Studies, and Art History Postgraduate Society  —

30th September – 1 October 2005

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

 

Re-Membering Place, Dis-Membering Home

 

                                                                        Salvador Dali. The Persistence of Memory.

 

There’s no place like home.  Dorothy

Home is where the heart is. 

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig.  Home again, home again, jiggety jig.

We must… protect our homeland.  Adolf Hitler

You can’t go home again.  Tom Wolfe

 

Homework, Homecoming, Homemade, Hometruth, Homekeeping, Homespun, Homefelt, Homesick, Homeland

 

Home is an emotionally charged and politically fraught concept.  How home and place intersect with memory is the topic of our upcoming conference. Decades long critical discussions of memory and narrative in discussion of place and belonging, trauma theory's examinations of memory and narrative in constituting personal subjectivities and cultural identities have opened up new ways of understanding history.  We are discovering that the past is not dead.  It might be said that old hometruths are under renovation.  We invite considerations of home, place, narrative, and memory from multi- and interdisciplinary backgrounds, in the arts and social sciences.   Possible topics might consider, but are not limited to, the areas of:

 

Nation Narration, Cultural Memory                                                          Multiculturalism and Belonging

Autoethnography, Memoir/ Public vs. Private Memory                       Inclusion and Exclusion     

Indigenous Narratives of Place and Belonging                                      Refugee and Asylum Issues

Translation and Displacement                                                                   Boundaries and Borders – social and political

Land Claims                                                                                                  Memorialization   

The Politics of Homeland Security                                                            Counter-memory/ Revisionist Histories

Trauma and Recovery, in the context of Place and Memory                Place and Forgetting

Immigration and “Homeland”                                                                    Historical Amnesias

Diaspora and Remembering Origin(s)                                                       The Rhetoric of Haunting

Home and Place in Religious Contexts                                                     Home and Capital

The Sociology of Space, Mapping, Architecture                                   Intersections of Gender with Home

Race/Ethnicity and Home                                                                           Class and Home

 

 

Postgraduate students and early career researchers are encouraged to submit proposals for  20 minute papers to: wip@uq.edu.au

  by 15 July 2005.

Please note that abstracts should be no longer than 300 words.

 

Guest speakers include Professor Peter Read, author of  Belonging (Cambridge UP, 2000) and Returning to Nothing. The Meaning of Lost Places. (Cambridge UP, 1996)