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Call for Papers: International Workshop “Governing Remembrance: Collective Memory, the Public Sphere and Law”
Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia 24-25 May 2024
We announce the call for papers for the international Workshop “Governing Remembrance: Collective Memory, the Public Sphere and Law,” which will take place at Riga Graduate School of Law on 24-25 May 2024.
The workshop’s main objective is to bring together scholars in socio-legal studies whose research tackles the phenomena of commemoration and social remembrance. This includes an update of the theory of collective social memory itself and specific case studies examining local policies that seek to regulate this issue by law.
The topics that will be addressed during the workshop should refer to general issues such as:
Current mechanisms of the formation of social co-remembrance (the role of legal instruments).
The interrelationships between memory politics at the international and supranational levels and the national level.
The operationalisation of policies aimed at consolidation of social co-memory through legal tools and processes employing the law, such as:
1. collective memory and transitional justice
2. regulations of collective memory in public space (monuments, street names, etc.)
3. legal impact on school curricula and history textbooks
4. regulations of national symbols, public holidays, etc. (sphere of symbolic co-remembrance);
5. memory laws in judicial review
6. collective memory and constitutional identities
7. European integration process and collective memories
as well as within very specific regional arrangements, for example:
1. "decommunisation" (also the removal of elements of other non-democratic systems) of institutions, public space, etc.
2. institutions of national remembrance and their legal framework.
Submissions:
Researchers interested in participating in the workshop are invited to send abstracts of papers of approximately 300-500 words to [email protected] by 15 February 2024.
We will notify the acceptance of applications by 1 March, 2024.
The conference fee of 40 euros will cover conference materials and lunches. Participants must cover their own travel and accommodation costs, but the organizers will be able to help with reservations.
Workshop participants will be asked to send a working outline (3-5 pages) of their papers two weeks before the workshop.
The organisers intend to publish the workshop proceedings.
Organizing Team:
prof. Adam Czarnota (Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia)
dr. Filip Cyuńczyk (SWPS Uniwersity in Warsaw, Poland)
dr. Piotr Eckhardt (Uniwersity of Wrocław, Poland)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rīga, Rātslaukums 1, Rīga, LV-1050, Latvija,Riga, Latvia
