Possible topics are:

Memory and diaspora: migrant’s particularism and/or cosmopolitanism.

Memory and new belonging: migrant’s renegotiation of their past.

Memory and mediation: migrant’s communication with home(land) as a dynamic between parting and imparting.

Memory and conflict: migrant’s memories of conflict and tensions in new homeland.

Memory and privatization: migrant’s private memories as the guardian of difference.

Memory and space: migrant’s spatial practices and experiences.

Memory and strategies of resistance: migrant’s use of everyday practices of action and resistance.

The deadline for submission of abstracts (150-200 words) is 15 May 2014. Notice of acceptance will be communicated by 15 June 2014.

Please, send proposals to both:
Barbara Misztal bm50@leicester.ac.uk
John Sundholm john.sundholm@ims.su.se