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interdisciplinary workshop
17/18-June-2007, LSE
- BY INVITATION ONLY -
Collective Memory and Collective Knowledge in a
Global Age
Venue: London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE,
Room A316 (Old Building)
Time: 17 June 2007, 10am - 18 June 2007, 1:30pm
The Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics (LSE) will host a 2 day interdisciplinary workshop which aims to bring together 15-20 researchers from all academic discourses researching collective memory and collective knowledge in a ‘global age’. The workshop will provide an opportunity for an exciting and challenging discussion of the issue that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.
With awareness that contemporary times are characterised by transformations that bring into question orthodox and ‘(nation)statist’ views of social reality, the last decades have seen the (attempted) ‘global’-ization of academic concepts, such as ‘global governance’, ‘global civil society’, ‘global culture’, ‘global state’, ‘global democracy’, ‘global media’ and ‘global public sphere’. So, what about ‘global collective memory’ and ‘global collective knowledge’? Today, the study of ‘collective memory’ has become an established endeavor in a variety of academic discourses and disciplines, from cultural studies to political science and sociology. Yet, the majority of works approach ‘collective memory’ from a ‘(nation)statist’ and/or cultural-specific point of view. Can the concepts of ‘collective memory’ and ‘collective knowledge’ be conceptualised for a ‘global age’? What theoretical challenges does this attempt encounter?
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