Public Forgetting The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again

“In his sustained meditation on forgetting, Bradford Vivian makes a singular and extremely valuable contribution to the field of memory studies. He substantially advances the theoretical discussion of memory and forgetting with his extended critiques (rhetorical analyses, really) of both ancient and recent formulations of collective public memory and forgetting. The conclusion is almost poetic in its lightness of touch. It pulls all the strands of the book into a single compelling case for forgetting as part of memory.” —James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of The Texture of Memory and At Memory's Edge.

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The International Journal of the Book

"The International Journal of the Book provides a forum for publishing professionals, librarians, researchers and educators to discuss that iconic artefact, the book—and to consider its past, present and future. Do the new electronic media (the Internet, multimedia texts and new delivery formats) foretell the death of the book? Or will they give us greater access, diversity and democracy?

The journal is relevant for anyone in the world of books—authors, publishers, printers, librarians, IT specialists, book retailers, editors, literacy educators and academic researchers. Discussions range from the reflective (history, theory and reporting on research) to the highly practical (examining technologies, business models and new practices of writing, publishing and reading).

The International Journal of the Book is peer-reviewed, supported by rigorous processes of criterion-referenced article ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the greatest substance and highest significance is published."


Editors:

Bill Cope, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Displacement and Community: Using Oral History to Document Transitions, Evolutions, and Adaptations

Displacement and Community: Using Oral History to Document
Transitions, Evolutions, and Adaptations


Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) announces its Spring
2011 Conference to be held April 20-21 at the Chemical Heritage
Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

How have oral history and personal narratives helped communities
document and deal with incidents of displacement and dislocation? How
have oral history and personal narratives helped communities build
connections and grow stronger?

These are two of the questions that guide the OHMAR program committee
as we prepare for our 2011 conference. We invite individual papers as
well as entire panels that address displacement and community building
in the context of environmental crises; regional, national and global
migrations; changes in the economy and workforce; social movements;
culture and the arts; the built environment; changing land use
patterns in countryside, suburb and city; politics and political
culture; and actions related to health and medicine. Topics may
include but are not limited to issues of pollution, gentrification,
modified political boundaries, gerrymandering, imminent domain, war or
civil unrest, and health, healthcare, and medicine. Presenters may
also want to address how new media and new technologies are
transforming how we conduct, preserve, and present oral histories.

The mid-Atlantic region, with its great variety of people and places,
is an ideal place to explore the themes of displacement and community.
The program committee invites participants to interpret the theme
expansively and to propose panels and roundtables that include voices
and images. OHMAR welcomes participants from a wide variety of
fields---history, anthropology, folklore, literature, political
science, and others---who work in the academic and public sectors.
OHMAR also welcomes submissions from archivists, librarians, web
designers, museum curators, and other oral history practitioners
engaged in work relevant to the 2011 conference theme.

For more information or questions about the call for papers, please
contact the conference co-chairs:

LuAnn Jones (LuAnn_Jones@nps.gov)

or David J. Caruso
(dcaruso@chemheritage.org dcaruso@chemheritage.org)

Details about the call for papers, proposal submission guidelines, and the
conference location are available at OHMAR's website,
http://www.ohmar.org/confercurrent.html
<http://www.ohmar.org/confer.html>.

Proposals are due no later than 15 January 2011.