Commemorating Painful Pasts through Performative Practices – 15-17 June 2016 – CFP deadline 24th August

The 3-day-conference will be held at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at
Stockholm University, Sweden, 15 – 17 June 2016

Keynote lectures and paper presentations will be open to the general public, whilst special
sessions are reserved for internal discussions amongst conference participants only.

Please note: we prefer subjects which have not been previously published. Accepted
conference participants are strongly encouraged to submit articles for publication soon after the conference. The work for the volume will undergo several editorial processes to ensure that its focus and purpose will be achieved.

Submissions for conference papers should reach us by 24 August 2015.
Please send an abstract (400 words) and a short CV including your institutional and departmental/museum affiliation and contact details to: performative.commemoration@gmail.com

For any questions please contact the conference organizers: Tanja Schult, Department of Culture and Aesthetics Stockholm University, Sweden, tanja.schult@arthistory.su.se, and Diana Popescu, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College, London, d.popescu@bbk.ac.uk.

Full details of the call for papers