Remembering Jerusalem: Imagination, Memory, and the City

Perhaps the world’s most iconic city, Jerusalem exists both as a physical space and as a site of memory, ideas, and re-memberings. In art, literature, film, and history writing; in acts of public and private worship; and in communities across the globe, memories of Jerusalem have, for centuries, been created, invoked, and relived. This cross-period, interdisciplinary conference invites paper and panel submissions on the theme of Jerusalem and Memory, c. 1099 to the Present Day. Topics may include, but need not be limited to:

- techniques of memorialisation / techniques of memory
- place, space, and memory
- souvenirs, mementoes, and memory aids
- the materiality (or immateriality) of memory
- memory and sensation
- memory, land and environment
- memory and warfare
- memory and governance
- forgetting, false memory, and fictional remembering
- narrative and memory
- memory and the archive
- national, local, and transnational memories
- memory and community
- ethnography as remembering
- ritual, repetition, and performance
- sacred and secular memory

The organisers are particularly keen to receive panel submissions which address a shared theme across more than one discipline and/or historical period.

Abstracts of c. 300 words for single papers and c. 1000 words for panels consisting of three papers should be sent to imagining-jerusalem@york.ac.uk by 1st July 2014. For more details or inquiries, please contact the same address or visit the Network website: http://jerusalems.wordpress.com/

This conference is organised by the lead members of the Network: Dr Anna Bernard (KCL), Dr Michele Campopiano (York), Dr Helen Smith (York), Dr Jim Watt (York), and the Network Coordinator, Hannah Boast (York).