We share here a Call for Papers for an interesting-looking conference coming up in May in Poland:
Representing Jewish History in European and American Popular Culture, Museums and Public Spaces
Warsaw, May 16-18, 2016
The framework of the conference is the role of history in the public space and in popular culture, with emphasis on the use of recent Jewish history in a broad context. In this era of technological innovations that bring an abundance of new information to a wide audience, historical knowledge has not become obsolete.
Organizers are looking for papers addressing the following issues:
— popular culture as a space for visions and revisions of history, the Holocaust in particular, but other aspects of Jewish history and traditions as well;
— infiltration of history into cinema and TV productions;
— popular culture vis-à-vis traditional narratives;
— functionality of history;
— museology: presenting and representing Jewish history and traditions in non-Jewish environments and in Israel;
— uses of history in various spheres of public life and culture;
— de-professionalization/de-academization of historical knowledge;
— Jews and popular culture: Jews as artists/creators as well as representations of Jewishness in popular culture.
Paper proposals should include a summary of up to 500 words and should be sent by February 28, 2016 to the address [email protected].
All other queries should be sent to the same address.