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Call for Papers
Theme: Migration, Adaptation and Memory
Type: 6th International Interdisciplinary Memory Conference
Institution: University of Gdańsk
McGill University
InMind Support
Location: Gdańsk (Poland)
Date: 21.–22.9.2017
Deadline: 23.7.2017
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How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is
involved in these processes? How does history remember these events
and experiences? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The
significance of these and related questions have made their way into
our daily lives. From the refugee crisis to policy decisions,
individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and
memories, this year's conference themes are ever-present. We strongly
believe in the value of approaching these topics from an
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective, in order to
engage various perspectives on these pressing issues we encounter
today.
The previous editions of the Memory series conferences, which have
brought together more than five hundred scholars from around the
world, have addressed the relationship between memory and solidarity
(“Solidarity, Memory and Identity”, 2012), memory and dreams
(“Dreams, Phantasms and Memories”, 2013), memory and forgetting
(“Memory: Forgetting and Creating”, 2014), memory and nostalgia
(“Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia”, 2015), and trauma and recovery
(“Memory, Trauma and Recovery”, 2016).
In 2017, we turn our attention to processes that are integral to
human experience: migration, adaptation, and memory. We are
interested in all aspects of migration and adaptation experience, in
their individual and collective dimensions, in the past and in the
present-day world. We would like to examine the role of memory, the
processes of migrating and adapting to various dynamic life
circumstances, across time, space, culture, language, and discipline.
Therefore, we strive to represent and discuss the crossroads of
migration, adaptation, and memory in their multiple representations:
psychological, social, historical, cultural, philosophical,
religious, neurological, organizational, methodological, economic,
political, and many others. As usual, we will also devote
considerable attention to how these phenomena appear and transform in
artistic practices: literature, film, theatre, and visual arts. This
is why we invite researchers representing various academic
disciplines: anthropology, history, psychiatry, psychology,
psychoanalysis, sociology, politics, philosophy, economics, law,
history of literature, theatre studies, film studies, design, project
management, memory studies, migration studies, consciousness studies,
dream studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, medical
sciences, cognitive sciences, and urban studies, to name a few.
Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case
studies, theoretical inquiries, personal reflections,
problem-oriented arguments, comparative analyses, and creative
expressions.
We will be happy to hear from experienced scholars and young
academics, doctoral and graduate students, as well as professionals
from various disciplines. We also invite all persons interested in
participating in the conference as listeners, without the obligation
to give a presentation.
Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not limited to:
Arts
- Literature, poetry, film, theatre, etc. as adaptive mediums
- Adaptation through artistic creation and destruction
- Artistic imagination and adaptation
- Migration as represented in arts
- Art created during migration
- Creative expression through memories
History
- Adaptation across history
- Memory processes in writing history
- Documenting history and memories in migration
Humanitarian work, Governments and NGOs
- Roles and responsibilities
- Management of temporary and transitory spaces
- Project management and evaluation
- Best practices
- Welcome contexts
Medical sciences
- Genetics/epigenetics in adaptation processes
- Neurobiology and biochemistry of adaptation and memory
- Evolutionary approaches to memory, adaptation and migration
- Chronic diseases, memory, and adaptation
Philosophy and Worldviews (Eastern, Western, Indigenous…)
- Epistemology and metaphysics
- Existential and postmodern adaptation
- Ethics in migratory context
- Philosophy of memory
Political Sciences and Law
- Policies related to migration and adaptation
- Human rights and migration
- Bureaucracy in relation to migration policies
- Judiciary systems
- Political agendas, memory and migration
- Objective vs. subjective memory in politics
- International politics and adaptation
Psychology and Psychiatry
- Mental health and adaptation
- Abnormal behaviors and adaptation
- (Mal)adaptive memory processes
- Social and transcultural psychiatry
- Perception/cognition/attention
- Personality
- Psychoanalysis
Sociology and Anthropology
