Dear Colleagues,
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<br>An invitation and friendly reminder to propose a paper for the POEM Opening
<br>Conference "Participatory Memory Practices: Connectivities, Empowerment, and
<br>Recognition of Cultural Heritages in Mediatized Memory Ecologies" at the
<br>Museum der Arbeit in Hamburg 13-14 December 2018. The call for papers will
<br>close 15th September 2018:
<br>https://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de/en/opening-conference.html
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<br>The conference addresses a multidisciplinary and international group of
<br>scholars and experts from memory institutions, civil society, policy makers,
<br>social entrepreneurs, the coding community, and creative industries.
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<br>To submit a proposal, please send a title, abstract of max. 600 words and a
<br>short bio of max. 200 words by 15th September 2018 to
<br>poem.gwiss@uni-hamburg.de
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<br>Thank you for your consideration.
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<br>Sincerely,
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<br>Samantha Lutz
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<br>Call for Papers: https://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de/en/opening-conference.html
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<br>Proposal Deadline: 15.09.2018
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<br>Diverging forces across European societies - most visible in both the
<br>contemporary nationalist movements and Islamist radicalization - place
<br>particular relevance on social and cultural inclusion. Culture may cultivate
<br>both integrative and disruptive forces; in this light heritage experts, policy
<br>makers, social entrepreneurs, and other facilitators are seeking to establish
<br>inclusive memory politics for envisioning possible futures of how we should
<br>remember our past in Europe. The recognition of "difficult" and dissonant
<br>traditions and the contestation of public memory in respect to the
<br>representation of colonial traditions and immigration, multiculturalism and
<br>transnational history, non-Christian religious heritages in European
<br>societies, female heritages, or the inclusion of deprived groups are important
<br>issues in this debate. Being part of the public memory is crucial for
<br>envisioning positive futures, acknowledging people's and groups' history,
<br>identity, belonging, and membership. Furthermore, questions of eligibility
<br>play an important role in relation to public support or redemption, for
<br>partaking in economic outcomes, or in relation to questions on ownership of
<br>cultural heritage resources
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<br>However, the participatory turn in memory work, essential for a socially
<br>inclusive public memory, turns out to be not as easy to implement in practice.
<br>Aside from the established memory institutions, people and groups explore
<br>Internet platforms for commemoration and sharing personal texts, photos, or
<br>videos and collaboratively contribute to an emergence of open access
<br>"archives" of everyday life. The diverse platforms, e.g. YouTube, Facebook,
<br>Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc., broadly attract people and groups for
<br>contributing cultural materials, articulating their views of history/histories
<br>and enfolding personal and group-related memory practices. Even though they
<br>are public, these Internet "archives" are beyond the scope of public memory
<br>politics and institutions; they are run for economic purposes in private
<br>ownership. The accessibility of these "archives" is regulated by business
<br>models and remains unclear towards the future. Connecting personal and
<br>group-related memory work in the public to participatory memory politics is
<br>thus confronted with legal and economic obstacles, ethical issues, as well as
<br>with discontinuities and gaps of individual and institutional social practices
<br>of memory work. This highlights the changed technical, organizational, and
<br>legal modalities of doing participatory memory work for social inclusive
<br>memory politics [...].
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<br>Samantha Lutz, M.A. | POEM Project Manager
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<br>University of Hamburg
<br>Institute of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
<br>Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 | 20146 Hamburg | Germany
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<br>phone: +49 (0)40 42838-6515
<br>mail: samantha.lutz@uni-hamburg.de
<br>web: https://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de/
<br>twitter: POEM_H2020
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