The Postcolonial Museum: the Pressures of Memory and the Bodies of History.
International Conference
as part of the European Museums in an Age of Migrations (MeLA)
European Commission FP7-funded project
Organised by the
University of Naples “l’Orientale”, MeLa RF2.
7-8 February 2013
Call for Papers
How to conceive of a “postcolonial museum” in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, Internet and digital technologies? How to consider this space, practices and institutions in the light of the repressed histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures that the Occident has either denied or investigated as merely objects of traditional display practices? How to retrace and re-route museums perspectives taking into account the pressures of the denied bodies of European history repressed in its colonial past and present?
How to re-think memory and its means in the light of the dissonant, asynchronous and displaced memories coming to meet us from the unregistered present, and the future narration of contemporary migration?
How to re-open the museum space, in order to transform it from a place of national identity and the accumulative logic multiculturalism, to a site of contaminations, fluxes, border-crossings and migrating memories?
Focusing on the transformation of museums (meant as cultural spaces rather than physical places) into living archive through creation, participation, production and innovation we will also consider the following issues:
How does the museum reshape its cultural spaces in the light of the precarious conditions of work of the subjectivities working within its context?
How are those subjectivities produced within this context?
How do new media arts participate in the complex transformation of cultural artwork?
How to work towards new forms of archiving — “affective”, sensorial, sound and fluid archives — even in conventional museum spaces?
MeLa Research Field 2 (http://wp2.mela-project.eu/), composed of Researchers from the University of Naples “l’Orientale”, is investigating these issues in order to contribute to a different comprehension of museums and archiving practices that respond to postcolonial and cultural studies in order rethink museums as mobile and “heterotopic spaces”, rather than stable places of institutional memory.
Instructions for submission
Abstracts of maximum 300 words for individual papers should be submitted to Mariangela Orabona (mariangelaorabona@gmail.com) by14thSept. 2012. The abstracts should include the following information:
- Title of paper
- Author name(s)
- Affiliation and position
- Email address
- Abstract
- Keywords (maximum 5)
Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposals by 24th Sept; on that occasion they will receive the publication stylesheet. Accepted speakers will be required to submit a full paper of minimum 4000 words in advance of the conference to Mariangela Orabona by 7thJanuary 2013.
Paper presentations at the conference should summarise the key arguments and findings of the full paper, which will be published in March 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.
There is no registration fee for the conference and buffet lunch will be provided.
MeLA RF2 Conference organising committee,
University of Naples “l’Orientale”:
Prof. Iain M. Chambers (RF2 leader)
Prof. Lidia Curti (Honorary Professor)
Dr Alessandra De Angelis, Beatrice Ferrara, Giulia Grechi, Mariangela Orabona (MeLa researchers)
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