We invite submissions for our one-day, interdisciplinary postgraduate conference at the University of Brighton on 4th July 2019, 9.30 am – 5.30 pm in M2 Boardroom, Grand Parade
Keynote address from David Berliner, Free University of Brussels
Organised by the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories
This conference explores the role of nostalgia in shaping our relationship to space/place and vice versa. It aims to bring together two lines of investigation. On the one hand, what are the complex, non-linear temporalities at stake in the use and abuse of memory and nostalgia to shape present and future spatial politics and realities? As Svetlana Boym pointed out, nostalgia is intrinsically prospective and ‘the fantasies of the past determined by the needs of the present have a direct impact on the realities of the future…The nostalgic feels stifled within the conventional c
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