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<b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(104,104,104);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Call for papers</span></b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(104,104,104)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(104,104,104)">The 2022 International Conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(104,104,104);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Memory and Forgetting</span></b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(104,104,104)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(104,104,104)">Hosted Online from the University of Melbourne, Australia (throughout the world) 30 September-1 October 2022 <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)">This
conference invites papers on the theme of memory and forgetting. Memory
is malleable. It is shaped by selection, by mediation, by transmission,
by ideologies, by societies and,
above all, by forgetting. In the words of Ann Rigney,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(141,141,141)">‘like water transported in a leaky bucket which slowly runs dry, [memories] are continuously being lost along the way’.<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)">And
yet, the archive contains a multiplicity of memories that have survived
their journeys, that have been remade in their transmission, and
continue to be remade as historians select
those memories that speak to particular perspectives or narratives.
What can we say about this selective approach to the archive? An
approach that often masquerades as ʹmemoryʹ
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)"> in terms of presenting a distinct narrative
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)"> and ʹforgettingʹ
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in terms of omission, whether deliberate or through ignorance or
inattention. This conference
examines the process of how early medieval societies created their
pasts and, in turn, how those pasts have continued to be created in
subsequent centuries.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)">This conference calls for papers that relate to this theme, or, in the spirit of the theme, that do not. Topics might include:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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• Agendas and identities<br>
• Biography and autobiography<br>
• Individual and cultural memory<br>
• Oral and textual histories<br>
• Transmission and reimaginings<br>
• Education and memoria<br>
• Transnational and global memory<br>
• Memory of conflict – forgetting of peace<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)">Submissions may be in the form of individual papers of 20 minutes duration, themed panels of three 20</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)">minute
papers, or Round Tables of up to six shorter papers (total of one
hour). All sessions will include time for questions and general
discussion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Please send proposals (150–200 words per paper), along with author’s
name, paper/panel/RT title, and academic affiliation (if any) to </span><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(141,141,141);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><a href="mailto:conference@aema.net.au" target="_blank">conference@aema.net.au</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(141,141,141)"> by
9 September 2022.</span></p>
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