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SUMMARY:IASS 2021: Memory Culture in Scandinavian Studies
LOCATION:Vilnius\, Lithuania
DESCRIPTION:Title: IASS 2021: Memory Culture in Scandinavian Studies\nLocat
 ion: Vilnius\, Lithuania\nOrganizer: International Association for Scandin
 avian Studies\, Centre for Scandinavian Studies\, Vilnius University\nWebs
 ite: http://www.iass2020.flf.vu.lt/\nFirst day: 2021-08-03\nLast day: 2021
 -08-06\nCategories: History / Archeology\, Politics / Society\, Literary S
 tudies\, Linguistics\, Cultural History\n\nThe idea of the conference &min
 us\; memory culture &minus\; sprang naturally from its cultural topography
 . Vilnius\, a &ldquo\;polycultural and polychronic text&rdquo\; (to quote 
 the poet Tomas Venclova)\, with its dramatic\, multi-ethnic and multilingu
 al history\, is pregnant with memories &minus\; complementary and conflict
 ing\, concealed and forgotten\, constructed and de-constructable.\n\nThe c
 onference will be hosted by Vilnius University\, which is counted among th
 e oldest in the region\, and the location of the humanities on its oldest 
 campus\, in the heart of Vilnius Old town\, makes it a very special confer
 ence venue. \n\nThe theme\, time and location of the conference thus invit
 e contributions that explore the intersections of history and culture. How
 ever\, the title Memory Culture in Scandinavian studies covers a much broa
 der field than that. Mnemosine is the mother of all the muses\, and Munin 
 is Hugin&rsquo\;s inseparable companion: any study of culture is concerned
  with remembering in one way or another.\n\nScholars of Scandinavian Studi
 es\, engaging with topics such as cultural memory\, collective memory\, vi
 sual memory\, (re)imagined memory\, post memory\, memory and place\, the m
 emory of things\, ecological memory\, digital memory\, intertextual and in
 termedial memory\; those who work with theoretical approaches such as cogn
 itive studies\, trauma studies\, genre studies\, post-colonial and gender 
 studies\, Ecocriticism and posthuman studies\; those who study early texts
  and deal with the problems of Old Norse literature or those who work with
  Scandinavian literary history\, canon formation\, the history of film and
  other media\, with individual writers or the evolution of ideas\, styles 
 or language use\, can all find their place in the agenda of the conference
 . And it still leaves space for more.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<table><tr><td><small><em>Title:</em></small><
 /td><td><small>IASS 2021: Memory Culture in Scandinavian Studies</small></
 td></tr><tr><td><small><em>Location:</em></small></td><td><small>Vilnius\,
  Lithuania</small></td></tr><tr><td><small><em>Organizer:</em></small></td
 ><td><small>International Association for Scandinavian Studies\, Centre fo
 r Scandinavian Studies\, Vilnius University</small></td></tr><tr><td><smal
 l><em>Website:</em></small></td><td><small><a href="http://www.iass2020.fl
 f.vu.lt/">http://www.iass2020.flf.vu.lt/</a></small></td></tr><tr><td><sma
 ll><em>First day:</em></small></td><td><small>2021-08-03</small></td></tr>
 <tr><td><small><em>Last day:</em></small></td><td><small>2021-08-06</small
 ></td></tr><tr><td><small><em>Categories:</em></small></td><td><small>Hist
 ory&thinsp\;/&thinsp\;Archeology\, Politics&thinsp\;/&thinsp\;Society\, Li
 terary Studies\, Linguistics\, Cultural History</small></td></tr></table><
 hr><p>The idea of the conference &minus\; memory culture &minus\; sprang n
 aturally from its cultural topography. Vilnius\, a &ldquo\;polycultural an
 d polychronic text&rdquo\; (to quote the poet Tomas Venclova)\, with its d
 ramatic\, multi-ethnic and multilingual history\, is pregnant with memorie
 s &minus\; complementary and conflicting\, concealed and forgotten\, const
 ructed and de-constructable.</p><p>The conference will be hosted by Vilniu
 s University\, which is counted among the oldest in the region\, and the l
 ocation of the humanities on its oldest campus\, in the heart of Vilnius O
 ld town\, makes it a very special conference venue. </p><p>The theme\, tim
 e and location of the conference thus invite contributions that explore th
 e intersections of history and culture. However\, the title Memory Culture
  in Scandinavian studies covers a much broader field than that. Mnemosine 
 is the mother of all the muses\, and Munin is Hugin&rsquo\;s inseparable c
 ompanion: any study of culture is concerned with remembering in one way or
  another.</p><p>Scholars of Scandinavian Studies\, engaging with topics su
 ch as cultural memory\, collective memory\, visual memory\, (re)imagined m
 emory\, post memory\, memory and place\, the memory of things\, ecological
  memory\, digital memory\, intertextual and intermedial memory\; those who
  work with theoretical approaches such as cognitive studies\, trauma studi
 es\, genre studies\, post-colonial and gender studies\, Ecocriticism and p
 osthuman studies\; those who study early texts and deal with the problems 
 of Old Norse literature or those who work with Scandinavian literary histo
 ry\, canon formation\, the history of film and other media\, with individu
 al writers or the evolution of ideas\, styles or language use\, can all fi
 nd their place in the agenda of the conference. And it still leaves space 
 for more.</p>
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CATEGORIES:History / Archeology, Literary Studies, Linguistics, Politics / 
 Society, Cultural History
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