This conference, held 17-19 October 2019 in Pretoria, aims to promote the interdisciplinary field of Memory Studies on the African continent. See full details at https://sss.ukzn.ac.za/call-for-papers-memory-in-africa-transcultural-dimensions/

Keynote speakers:

Prof Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, Department of History, UNISA

Prof John Sutton, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Conference themes

• the role of political memory in international relations and local, national and transnational politics
• memory in law and transitional justice processes
• multidirectional travel of memories between Africa and the world
• memory in the age of digital media and networked communication technology
• memory in the context of religion and spirituality
• the role of memory in health and sickness (including HIV/Aids, Ebola, etc.)
• commemoration of persons, events and places in African societies
• how are local memories affected by global narratives and discourses
• memory in the context of travel, mobility, migration and displacement
• gendered memories and memories of gender relations
• testing of established concepts in memory studies (e.g. Hirsch’s notion of postmemory) in African case studies
• memory, inequality and poverty
• methodologies of memory studies in an African context and in relation to oral history studies

Postgraduate students: Note the guidelines on how to write a successful proposal at the end of the call for papers on the website!

Call for papers extended to 28 February 2019