Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota 2007

Celebrating Memory: The 50th Anniversary of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota

Keynote Speaker: S. Michael Halloran

Professor Emeritus

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Speaking on:

Remembering the Battles of Saratoga: ad Bellum Purificandum

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.

 

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

 

Hosted by the English Department at North Dakota State University

Contact Information: 701.231.7144; dale.sullivan@ndsu.edu

Look for updated information at http://sullivanfiles.net/LCMND.