tag:www.romanistik.de,2005:/aktuelles/2220Romanistik.de – Meldungenhttps://www.romanistik.de/aktuelles/22202017-01-09T23:12:45+01:002017-01-15T16:52:01+01:00CfP: Classical Antiquity & Memory from the 19th - 21st Century (28-30 September 2017) (Veranstaltungsprojekt)<p><em>Quand l’homme a voulu imiter la marche, il a créé la roue, qui ne ressemble pas à une jambe<br />
[When man wanted to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg]</em><br />
Apollinaire: Les mamelles de Tirésias, Préface</p>
<p>Reading Antiquity always already presupposes an act of re-membering and thereby a bringing back to heart (ri-cordare). At the same time, remembering is based on generating difference, i.e. on differences enabling the reappearance of the past as a phantom-like present. When identifying significant historical events and explaining their impact, classical mythology is often engaged in literary and cultural discourses that re-shape and re-interpret narratives that develop our sense of self. Therefore, constructing collective memories and remembering a shared antiquity are often interwoven through mechanisms of encoding, storing, retrieving and forgetting the Greco-Roman past.<br />
Remembering Antiquity implies calling into question past cultural and political amnesia and repression: With the return of the ghost of right-wing politics which deny the relevance of intellectuals, the criteria of choosing one text and not the other become all the more important. This Conference will explore and discuss Dis-/Re-Membering as an urge to consume and/or erase the memory of “classical” texts that we may call into question by re-writing them in the context of various literary, artistic, visual or musical representations.</p>
<p><strong>Possible subjects for papers:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Re-/Dis-Membrance</strong><br />
• To what extent does the re-appropriation of classical texts contribute to (de-)constructing memory?<br />
• What is the rhetoric of constructing memory in modern literature and art?<br />
• How are dis-continuities exploited in favour of rejecting the concept of a collective cultural memory?</p>
<p><strong>Re-Presentation</strong><br />
• To what extent does contemporary literature exploit classical antiquity as propaganda?<br />
• Does the ancient world progressively elude our memories in the era of postmodern cultural amnesia, or do the spectres of the classical past still haunt us?<br />
• How do the mechanisms of re-membering the classical past change within the context of national and transnational, sociohistorical and fictional accounts of classical literature?<br />
• What impact does the digital age have on our relationship with our (remembrance of the) past?</p>
<p><strong>Re-Canonisation</strong><br />
• What are the politics of (re-)establishing a Greco-Roman literary canon?<br />
• How is cultural memory constructed as a form of opposition or as a survival technique that makes use of classical antiquity?<br />
• How does re-/dis-membering the Greco-Roman past operate in our fragmented and/or catalogued present?<br />
• What is the connection between personal literary and collective cultural memory, especially in times of crisis when there is a blatant lack of founding myths.<br />
• How is the classical world (re-)mediated – as a dead corpse or as a living organism – and what aspects make Antiquity relevant for our social, moral, artistic and intellectual world?</p>
<p>We invite abstracts of approximately 300 words (30 minute presentations, followed by 10 minute discussions). Abstracts and presentations are to be delivered in English.</p>
<p>Abstracts and any inquiries may be sent to the organisers, at memory.bonn2017@gmail.com. <strong>Submissions are due May 15, 2017.</strong></p>
<p>Organised in collaboration with the Centre for the Classical Tradition (<span class="caps">CCT</span>) Bonn (University of Bonn), and Jocasta | Classical Reception Greece (University of Patras). <br />
Bonn: Dr. Milan Herold, Penelope Kolovou, PhD Student | Patras: Efstathia Athanasopoulou, PhD Student</p>Dr. Milan Herold