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This may be of interest to some on the list: 
 
 
                        CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
Workshop on "Memory and Historical Method" 
 
Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European 
Ideas (ISSEI), 19 -24 August, 1996. 
 
University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands 
 
        Dear Colleagues:  You are cordially invited to submit proposals 
and abstracts for the workshop on "Memory and Historical Method," to be 
held in conjunction with the Fifth Conference of the International Society 
for the Study of European Ideas, August 19-24, in Utrecht, The 
Netherlands.  (The conference's general theme is "Memory and History: 
European Identiy at the Millennium.") Abstracts of 150-200 words should 
reach the workshop chair and the co-chairs of the conference by 31 October 
1995 at the latest.  Between seven and twelve proposals can be accepted. 
Final papers should not exceed 3000 words or ten double-spaced pages, and 
should be presented rather than read.  Completed papers should reach the 
workshop and conference chairs no later than 31 May 1996.  The workshop 
chair is responsible for selecting papers to be presented.  A description 
of the workshop's focus follows: 
 
                        Memory and Historical Method 
 
        The need to maintain a clear distinction between history and 
memory--i. e., between the "historical" and the "remembered" pasts--has a 
firm tradition in historiography.  While it is widely assumed that we 
have a sense of the past because we have a memory, historians are, 
almost by definition, wary of memory's reliability as evidence. 
Moreover, according to R. G. Collingwood, history and memory are 
radically different mental processes:  "history is a certain kind of 
organized or inferential knowledge, and memory is not organized, not 
inferential, at all" (_The Idea of History_ [New York], 1956], p. 252). 
Nevertheless, "memory" has become something of a vogue word in recent 
historiographical usage, partly, perhaps, on the premise that both memory 
and history are "present-centered" social constructs, partly because 
issues of history and historical consciousness impinge on current 
interest in "collective memory," social traditions as constructs, 
narrativity, political cultures and _lieux de memoire_, and the politics 
of "identity" (commemoration of the French Revolution,; the Holocaust, 
the forthcoming ISSEI conference on "Memory and History:  European 
Identiy at the Millenium," etc.).  Other factors may be involved. 
 
        What are the implications of such recent trends surrounding the 
issue of memory for the writing of history?  To what extent (if any) are 
current linkages of history and memory significantly innovative and 
methodologically useful, and to what degree are they, perhaps, the result 
of careless usage, naive or misleading analogy, and/or an overintrusion 
of politics into scholarship?  How are such problematic concepts as 
"memory," "commemoration," "memorability," "collective memory," 
"tradition," and "historical consciousness" related to one another and, 
in turn, related to historical knowing?  This workshop seeks to explore 
the relationships between memory and history in light of older views and 
newer trends, in order to assess their implications for the practice of 
history. 
 
Please send proposals and abstracts no later than 31 Oct. 1995 to: 
 
Workshop Chair:  Prof. Harry Ritter, Department of History, Western 
Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA.  Tel: 
360-650-3053.  Fax:  360-650-4837.  E-mail:  [log in to unmask] 
 
Conference Co-Chairs: 
        Prof. H. P. Kunneman, Research Institute, University for Humanist 
Studies, P. O.; Box 797, 3500 AT Utrecht, The Netherlands.  Tel:  31 30 
390100.  Fax:  31 30 390170. 
        Prof. Ezra Talmor, Dept. of Philosophy, Haifa University, Mount 
Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel.  Tel:  972 3 9386445.  Fax:  972 3 9386484. 
 
Ross B. Emmett, Augustana Univesity College, Camrose, Alberta 
CANADA   T4V 2R3   voice: (403) 679-1517   fax: (403) 679-1129 
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