Monash Aftermath Conference: Travel Bursaries and Reminder of Upcoming Call for Abstracts Deadline (March 4)

From: Noah Shenker <[email protected]>

Update
Regarding Newly Available Travel Bursariesand Reminder of Upcoming Call for Abstracts Deadline (March 4) for :
 
The 3rd Dr. Jan Randa Conference
in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
AFTERMATH 2013: SITES AND SOURCES OF HISTORY
AND MEMORY
Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia 

6-7 August 2013

Hosted by the Australian Centre for Jewish
Civilisation in partnership with the History Program at Monash University and
the University of Warwick
Keynote Speakers Include: Professor Hasia
Diner, New York University; Professor Ben Kiernan, Yale
University; Professor Richard Bessel, The University of York.
 
Call for Abstracts:
The field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies is
at a critical juncture.  Archives, testimony projects, documentation
centres, and new tools in the fields of salvaging and mapping sites of conflict
have proliferated and thus present new and urgent possibilities for documenting
and transmitting histories and memories of traumatic events. 
Consequently, the expansion of new sources (ranging from recently opened
Holocaust archives to the creation of Rwandan testimony projects) and the
unearthing of sites of destruction (in locations like Cambodia and Darfur)
compel explorations of how evidence will be accessed and interpreted with an
attention to their cultural, historical, topographical, and media specificity,
and how they will be engaged not only in scholarly and pedagogical terms but
also in larger areas of social and political practice.

With that in mind,
this conference is interested in engaging the following questions:
 
-How do
scholars and archivists incorporate sources encompassing ephemera, memoirs,
architectures and topographies, testimonies, photographs, and found moving
image footage, among others, into the writing of the Holocaust in particular
and genocides more broadly?

-In what ways can we integrate traditional modes of scholarly inquiry with
developments in documenting, preserving, and addressing new sources which are
often captured in real time and thus require more immediate critical and social
intervention?

-What are the challenges and opportunities for scholars attempting to work with
a growing collection of data across multiple platforms and media (online
videos, multimedia testimonies, social networking and mapping tools, and
digitized text-based sources) that span various disciplines and methodologies
that are often alien to their traditional areas of training?

-To what extent are there limits and possibilities of utilizing the Holocaust
as a conceptual framework for documenting other genocides?  Are the
cultural, historical, and site-specific aspects of non-Holocaust events
compromised in the process of adopting the Holocaust as a methodological
paradigm?  
 
Abstracts:
Abstracts are due March 4, 2013 
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words
long, for a paper of 20 mins duration; include title of paper, author’s name
and institutional association, and the abstract. Upon acceptance of the paper,
we will request a brief (60 word approx.) biography of the author. Proposals
for panels with multiple papers on a common topic should follow the above
format for each author and panel chair.

Please send all abstracts of paper or panel
proposals by March 1, 2013, addressed to:
[email protected]

UPDATE:  Travel Bursaries:
There are now five bursaries of $1000 AUD on offer to assist with attendance at the Aftermath conference.  These bursaries are available only to
graduate students and non-tenured academics from outside of Australia (and with
current institutional affiliations) who have had abstracts accepted for
presentation at the Aftermath Conference. These bursaries are competitively
based, and will be considered and awarded by the Aftermath Steering Committee.  Bursary applications close on 4 April 2013.


To apply please
fill out the form posted under the "Bursaries" tab of the conference
website (linked below), sign it, and return it ASAP to:
Dr. Miriam Munz, [email protected]
 
For more information on travel bursaries,
registration costs, full schedule and other downloadable conference information, please see the conference website:  

http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/aftermath/
 
-- 
Dr.
Noah Shenker
Lecturer, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Faculty of Arts
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Level 8, Building H
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East, VIC 3145
Australia

Phone:  +61 3 9903 5006
Email:  [email protected]
Web:  www.arts.monash.edu/acjc