Call for Papers
The History Department at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) extends a special invitation to all scholars, graduate students, researchers, and custodians of traditional knowledge to submit papers and panels for its next annual symposium to be held at the RMC campus, September 26-27, 2024, in Kingston, Canada. The theme for the 2024 History Symposium is “History, Memoray, and Heritage.”
For more than four decades, historians from various fields have been studying how societies remember and commemorate. In doing so, they seek to understand how, who, and why peoples and nations construct versions of the past that celebrate certain individuals and events while forgetting others. Historians acknowledge that memory has been an important instrument of power mobilized in the name of nation, ethnicity, race, and religion. As part of this complex process, this symposium aims to discuss whose collective memory has a privileged place in textbooks, films, museums, and monuments as well as whose version of the past has prevailed. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Memory and war
- Public memory and history
- Historical consciousness and commemoration
- The politics of remembrance and forgetting
- Heritage and celebration
- World heritage and Indigenous peoples in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania
- The impact of disinformation and fake news in memory, history and heritage
Instructions
Individual Submissions: Individual proposals should include an abstract (250-word maximum), and the email and affiliation of presenter(s).
Panel Submissions: Panel proposals should comprise a 250-word summary, an abstract, and the e-mails and affiliations of all panelists. A minimum of three participants is required.
Deadline for submission of proposals: June 1, 2024.
For questions and/or inquiries, please e-mail rmc.symposium.cmr2024@gmail.com.
Organizers:
Vanessa S. Oliveira and Katherine Rossy (Co-chairs)
Caroline D’Amours