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SUMMARY:Places of Amnesia: The Inside and the Outside. Can the Human Body 
 be a Place of Amnesia? - Dr Paul Connerton (University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:Over 70 presenters from 20 countries exploring how societies f
 orget\, with major focus on Russia and Central Europe dealing with Holocau
 st and Socialist legacy.\n\nThe conference seeks to develop a dialogue bet
 ween subject experts\, established scholars and young researchers on how h
 istorical events\, people\, places and cultural texts are not included in 
 the representation of the past. We seek to establish whether specific site
 s can be viewed as the loci of forgetting or\, recalling and critiquing Pi
 erre Nora's lieux de mémoire\, can be studied as places of amnesia.\n\nTh
 e conference will focus on – but not be limited to – the following ove
 rarching questions: How do the intersections of personal biography with hi
 storical events influence the way in which social groups remember and forg
 et? What happens to the knowledge of events when there are no witnesses le
 ft? How do ceremonies and public events filter memory and amnesia?\n\nOthe
 r questions will interrogate collective memory understood as a social disc
 ursive practice\, rather than as an extension of personal and individual m
 emory work. We hope this will encourage new and creative insights and cont
 ribution to memory studies\, and indeed pave the way for a new focus on am
 nesia studies.\n\n*Explore topics of 18 panels in the programme of the con
 ference*\, which can be found can be found in pdf format *"HERE":https://p
 oaconference.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/places-of-amnesia-schedulemarch6t
 h-doc.pdf* Please note that the programme is subject to changes and will b
 e updated.\n\nOur *keynote speakers* are:\n* *5th April – Professor Carl
 o Ginzburg (UCLA/University of Pisa) on Unintentional Revelations. Rescuin
 g the Past\, Obliquely.*\n* *6th April – Dr Paul Connerton (University o
 f Cambridge) on The Inside and the Outside. Can the Human Body be a Place 
 of Amnesia?*\n\nThe conference is organised by Daria Mattingly\, PhD Candi
 date in Slavonic Studies\,Gruia Badescu\, PhD Candidate in Architecture (C
 ambridge) and Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography (Oxford)\, Elena Ze
 zlina\, PhD Candidate in Italian and Maria Ana Correia\, PhD Candidate in 
 Anthropology. It is organised under the aegis of the *Slavonic Studies Dep
 artment at the University of Cambridge*\, with funding from the *School of
  Arts and Humanities\, University of Cambridge* and the *Centre for East E
 uropean Language Based Studies*.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Rooms\, Cambridge
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