Call for Papers
Special Issue on
(Mis)Communicating Memory
May 2022 | www.mediawatchjournal.in
Editors:
Dr. Avishek Parui, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
https://hss.iitm.ac.in/team-members/avishek-parui/
Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. https://www.nitt.edu/home/academics/departments/humanities/faculty/sathyaraj/
Concept Note
Memory Studies is an interdisciplinary research framework that draws on psychology, social sciences, history, critical theory, and literature, among other fields of enquiry. As a neural and narrative activity, memory inhabits the embedded embodied domains and the extended cultural ones. The emergent and connective memory model as the phenomenal and collective activity may be examined as informing identities and complex forms of intersubjectivity that are ambivalent, existential, and discursively determined. It operates through encoding, consolidation, as well as through absences and interruptions. This entanglement of inclusion and interruption makes memory a uniquely ontological and experiential category that is embodied, extended, and enactive in quality. Memory and re-membering bear structural and functional parallels with storytelling, which operates through encoding, emplotment, and effacement. This convergence between memory and storytelling foregrounds that both may be read as negotiations with the knowledge that involves communication and miscommunication, sometimes simultaneously. Philosophically and theoretically examining memory as a communicative category, this special issue seeks to explore remembering as miscommunication, addressing, but not limited to, the following topics of intervention:
Affect, communication, remembering
Agency, identity, and communicative control in memory narratives
Collective memory and contagious communication
Forgetting as (mis)communication
Knowledge-narratives of memory
Memory as complex communication
Memory as emotional encoding
Memory and fabulation
Memory, metafiction, and deconstruction
Memory, mimesis, and misinformation
Memory, miscommunication, and spatiotemporally
Storytelling and modalities of memory
Memory and modes of representation (film, fiction, comics, etc.)
Memory practices (museums, archives, objects, etc.)
Publication timeline/schedule:
Last date for the submission of abstracts 30 May 2021
Decision on submitted abstracts 30 June 2021
Submission of the full article 30 November 2021
Suggested revisions sent to contributors 28 February 2022
Contributors return their essay in final form 30 March 2022
Media Watch receives complete manuscript 10 April 2022
Publication of the special issue 01 May 2022
Editorial correspondence, submission, and inquiries:
Abstracts of 500 words (should contain a general but a clear idea of your potential essay’s content) along with a brief professional biography may be sent to the editors: memory2022issue@gmail.com
Dr. Avishek Parui, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Email: avishekparui@iitm.ac.in
Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Associate Professor, National Institute of Technology, Trichy. Email: sathyaiitk@gmail.com
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