2007 LCMND Conference
Fargo, ND

Call for Papers on the Theme “Memory, Memorial, Memorializing: Spaces of and for Remembering”

The Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota invites proposals for 15-minute papers or 75-minute panels for the 50th annual meeting of LCMND, September 27-29, 2007, Fargo, ND. Papers selected by review process will be published as a collection marking the occasion. Conference languages: French and English. Print version.

The following list suggests but does not limit possible relevant topics.

• Re-Membering: literature and film as memorializing acts
• Biography/History and the "fixing" of memory
• Individual versus collective memory in the memoir
• Sites, cites, and sights of social memory
• Bodies as sites of memory and memorial
• Historical amnesia in national narratives
• Social identity as historical memory
• · Electronic memory, memorial, and memorializing
• Selective memory and the politics of identity
• Material cultures of memory
• Diasporic, postcolonial, and transnational memory
• Re-writing/Re-mapping cultural memory
• Testimonial, memory, and justice

Please send one-page abstracts as electronic attachments (.doc or .rtf) to dale.sullivan@ndsu.edu by April 30, 2007. Please include contact information: name, institution, email address. You may send hard copies if you prefer to Dale Sullivan, 322g Minard Hall, P. O. Box 5075, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5075.

Conference Dates: Thursday (noon) – Saturday (3:00 pm), September 27-29, 2007
Location: North Dakota State University Alumni Center, 1241 N. University Drive, Fargo, ND.
Housing: (indicate that you are part of the LCMND Conference)

• Howard Johnson Inn Downtown Fargo, $69.00 per night, plus taxes, 701.232.8850
• Radisson Hotel Fargo, $79.00 per night plus taxes, 701.232.7363

Conference fees: $90.00 (includes $15 membership fee and banquet Friday evening) $60.00 (reduced rate for graduate students, includes banquet)
Extra banquet tickets available, $30