Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:31:25 -0800
From: "Paul A. Harris" <pharris-AT-popmail.lmu.edu>
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Time and Memory Conference


 [Spoon-Announcements is a moderated list for distributing info of
 wide enough interest without cross-posting.  To unsub, send the message
 "unsubscribe spoon-announcements" to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]


The International Society for the Study of Time announces its Twelfth Triennial
Conference 
Time and Memory 
Clare College, Cambridge, UK 
July 25-31, 2004 

The International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) encourages the 
interdisciplinary study of time in all its aspects. Founded by J.T. 
Fraser, the ISST has held its triennial conferences since 1966 in 
locations across the globe. The volumes in The Study of Time series 
comprise collected papers from the conferences. The ISST also 
disseminates work through the associated publication KronoScope: Journal 
for the Study of Time (Brill). 

The unique character of intellectual exchange at ISST Conferences is 
vested in cross-disciplinary discussions spurred by participants from 
around the world and representing many different areas of 
specialization. The Society seeks always to hold its conferences in a 
location of memorable beauty and resonance. 

The 2004 Conference at Cambridge University will be based within the Old 
Court of Clare College, founded in 1326 and located in the center of the 
City, immediately beside the world-famous King's College Chapel. Clare's 
300-year old drooping stone bridge across the river Cam is one of the 
iconic landmarks of the Cambridge "backs." Delegates will take their 
meals in Clare's 17th century dining Hall and stay in 
recently-modernized accommodations in the College's nearby Memorial 
Court. The conference program will include a free day for sight-seeing 
in Cambridge with its many ancient colleges, chapels and libraries, and 
its magnificent Fitzwilliam Museum of Fine Art. 

The free day will conclude with a guided evening excursion to nearby Ely 
Cathedral, a landmark in English medieval architecture whose famous 
Gothic lantern has for centuries provided a beacon for travellers in the 
Cambridgeshire fens. 

Call For Papers 

The theme of the Society's twelfth conference is Time and Memory. 
Memory plays an important role in fields across the disciplinary 
spectrum as well as several strands of contemporary life and culture. 
In the face of rapid change in the cosmological, ecological, 
geopolitical, technological, cultural and individual landscapes, the 
topic of memory takes on special urgency. New understandings of memory 
emerge in fields ranging from neuroscience and evolutionary biology to 
geology and cosmology. Technological forms of memory raise pressing 
social and political issues, amid shifts in our collective means and 
modes of memory. Competing accounts of history and personal identity 
foreground the role of narrative in shaping human memory. 
The Society therefore solicits contributions to the study of Time and 
Memory understood in its widest sense. Presentation/paper proposals are 
called for from all fields of scholarly investigation and all forms of 
creative expression. Diverse formats are welcome: scholarly paper, 
cross-disciplinary panel discussion, debate, performance/overview of 
creative work, installations, workshop, poster. All work is to be 
presented in English. 

Some possible Themes in the field of Time and Memory: 
Memory and Neuroscience 
Architecture and Memory 
Memory and Perception 
Memory and Community 
Memory and Consciousness 
Memory Across Cultures 
Memes and Genes 
Genocide and Cultural Memory 
Hierarchical Structure and Memory 
Monuments and History 
Cosmological Memory 
Memory and Planning 
Organic/Inorganic Memory 
Memory and Narrative 
Quantum Memory 
Memory and/of the Future 
Memory in Ecosystems 
Memory and the Image 
Memory and Forgetting 
False Memories 
Computers and Memory 
Long-/Short-Term Memory 

Proposals should be approximately 300 words in length, and include the 
presenter's field of specialization and academic/professional 
affiliation. Electronic submission of proposals is preferred via email 
to ISST-AT-StudyofTime.org. 

Proposals may otherwise be mailed in triplicate to: 
Dr. Thomas Weissert, Executive Secretary 
P.O. Box 436 
Wynnewood, PA 19096, USA 

The deadline for submission is July 30th, 2002. 

Conference participants must be ISST members. For membership 
information and application procedures, visit our website or contact Dr. 
Weissert at the above address. Membership includes subscriptions to the 
ISST house organ Time's News, the ISST newsletter, and the journal 
KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time. 

The Society also seeks session chairs, whose names will be included on 
the printed program. 

Dr. Paul A. Harris
Dept. of English
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA 90045-8215
http://clawww.lmu.edu/~pharris/