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[Andreas Umland <andreumland@yahoo.com>]

CfP: Memory- contestation - identity: European politics of remembrance

19th International Conference of Europeanists
Boston, Massachusetts • March 22-24, 2012
Organized by the Council for European Studies


Even if research on questions of memory and identity have permeated 
empirical political science in the past few years, there is still a lack
 of comprehensive studies dealing with both transnational pan-European 
politics of remembrance and the question if and how it is connected to 
an unfolding European public sphere.

For the next Council for European Studies Conference taking place from 
22-24 March 2012 in Boston, we are looking for research projects which 
examine exactly this nexus between European politics of remembrance, 
European identity and an emerging European public sphere from different 
angles. All scholars dealing with politics of remembrance on the 
European level are invited to submit a proposal. Papers could 
investigate for example the way the EU has dealt publicly with the 
memory of WWII, discuss the emergence of a European public sphere 
vis-à-vis the remembrance of oppression and dictatorship, map European 
efforts to implement a standardised negative founding myth on the basis 
of the Holocaust or examine the continuous conflict between the memory 
of Stalinism and Nazism/Fascism on the European level (to give just a 
few examples).

The panel thus seeks to investigate an area that so far has been 
under-researched. While the amount of studies exploring politics of 
memory on the national level has seen an enormous increase in the past 
years, there is little evidence of research dealing with issues and 
actors on the European level. Scholars concentrating particularly on the
 manifold relations between pan-European politics of remembrance, 
questions of identity and (a) European public sphere(s) are therefore 
particularly encouraged to apply.


Paper proposals (250 words abstracts) should be sent to alinesierp@gmail.com by September 17, 2011.
We are planning to include suitable contributions in an edited volume 
that are published as part of the ECPR - Studies in European Political 
Science series.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions! We are looking forward to your contributions.