N. XXIX, December 2019
edited by Cristina Basili, Roberto Navarrete, Libera Pisano
The issue 29 of Lo Sguardo will be devoted to the social and political dimension of memory.
ACCEPTED LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, ITALIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH.
DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF THE PROPOSALS: June, 10th, 2019
Procedure: Please send an abstract of up to 4,000 characters, including the title of the proposed contribution and an outline of its argument, to callforpapers@losguardo.net by the specified deadline. Proposals will be evaluated by the editors of the Journal and a panel of readers, and the results of the selection will be announced to the authors by June 30th, 2019. Accepted papers will then have to be submitted to the editors by a new deadline, which will be announced to the authors with the results of the selection, and will undergo a double-blind review.
Call for abstracts / papers
The editors invite researchers and scholars in the fields of philosophy of memory, history of philosophy, moral and political philosophy, aesthetics, literature, political science and anthropology to contribute to the issue 2/2019. We invite proposals (abstracts) in any of the following four areas:
- Politics of Memory: Memory as a collective phenomenon can be examined in its peculiar political value; in this session, papers should contribute to the relationship between identity and memory, the political rewriting of the past; in particular, contributions on the ambiguous relationship between memory and homeland are welcomed; in fact, memory can be both the Mnemosyne of the Volksgeist linked to a nation state as well as the transportable homeland for people in exile.
- Writing Memory: This section will be dedicated to the analysis of memory as a literary space, from the epic to the autobiography, through the historical novel. We are encouraging contributions on the role of memory as a literary and philosophical leitmotiv in the work of writers, intellectuals and poets of the twentieth century. Especially in those cases where, as in women’s writings, memory becomes an essential tool to recollect the fragmentary traces of a lost past.
- Memory of Sacred: Mythology, paganism and monotheisms have a distinct relationship to the past both from a theological point of view and from a practical-ritual one. This section will collect contributions aimed at investigating the relationship between the sacred and memory, a theme that can be addressed both under the perspective of philosophy of religion and theology as well as under the perspective of cultural studies.
- Techniques of Memory: This section will include papers aimed at investigating, on the one hand, the mnemonic techniques (ars memoriae) that have played a pivotal role in the history of thought, from Simonide di Ceo to Umberto Eco, and on the other hand the criteria and methods of cataloguing, using and organizing the past. For example, let us consider the importance of Warburg work Mnemosyne or the “rule of the good neighbor”, as the principle of Warburg´s library collection.
Cristina Basili, Roberto Navarrete e Libera Pisano
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