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<P><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">PUBLIC MEMORY RESEARCH CENTRE CONFERENCE 2009</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND, TOOWOOMBA, QLD</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">13-14 FEBRUARY 2009</FONT></B>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Garamond">‘LEGACIES 09’</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">SYLVIA LAWSON, WRITER, HISTORIAN, CULTURAL CRITIC</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">PROFESSOR MARILYN LAKE, HISTORIAN, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">According to John Bodnar, ‘Public Memory is a body of beliefs and ideas about the past that help a public or society understand its past, present, and by implication, its future.’ In distinction from conventional history, Public Memory research fashions a relation between past and present which, whether real or imagined, asserts the important shaping spirit of the past and its persistence in everyday life. Public Memory is also concerned with the past as a potential resource for new social directions: every act of scholarly retrieval might contribute to a project of cultural renewal.</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Under the general theme of ‘Legacies’, the conference invites submissions for individual papers and proposals for panel sessions or group presentations in the areas of </FONT></B></P>
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<LI><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Culture, retrieval and revival</FONT></B></LI>
<LI><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Memory and the practice of everyday life</FONT></B></LI>
<LI><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">History, ideology and refashioning the past</FONT></B></LI>
<LI><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Colonialism and its aftermaths</FONT></B></LI>
<LI><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Indigenous, ethnic and multicultural memories</FONT></B></LI>
<LI><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Public memory and national identities</FONT></B></LI>
<LI><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Memory and myth</FONT></B></LI>
<LI><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Public memory as false consciousness</FONT></B></LI>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">‘LEGACIES 09’ welcomes papers or presentations in disciplinary and inter-disciplinary fields such as Anthropology, History, Literature, Theatre Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, Multicultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Whiteness Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Media and Communications, Sociology and Political Theory. ‘LEGACIES 09’ invites submissions from professional academics, postgraduate students and non-academic cultural practitioners.</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">PLEASE DIRECT ABSTRACTS (300 WORDS) OR CONFERENCE ENQUIRIES TO </FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">Dr Brian Musgrove</FONT></B> <B></B><B> <FONT FACE="Garamond">Dr Lara Lamb</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="mailto:musgrove@usq.edu.au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">musgrove@usq.edu.au</FONT></U></A> <A HREF="mailto:lamb@usq.edu.au"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">lamb@usq.edu.au</FONT></U></A></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">07 46 311043</FONT></B> <B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">07 46 311069</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 30 SEPTEMBER 2008</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">ACCEPTANCES NOTIFIED BY 31 OCTOBER 2008</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT FACE="Garamond">WEBSITE WITH FULL CONFERENCE DETAILS ACCESSIBLE 1 JULY 2008</FONT></B></P>
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