‘Timeless Memories’: Memory and Temporality in Histories of Education

History of Education UK Annual Conference, 5 – 7 November 2021. Online.

An online conference hosted by the Domus Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Histories of Education and Childhood, University of Birmingham.

Call for Papers:

The last decade or so has seen both a ‘temporal turn’ in historical research and a growth in memory studies, to the extent that as one historian has noted the discipline of history has refreshed itself.  Historians have used public and private memories as a lens to observe and tell the stories of the past in the present. Memory is used to encode, process and save information. It gives meaning and legitimacy to the present. Of course, the concepts of time and memory in circulation are part of the Western episteme and there is an intimate connection between the imperial project and the imposition of Western temporalities and coercion to abandon indigenous temporalities.  These processes not only fostered a ‘temporality of trauma’ but also had an impact on determining what and how moments and events were memorialised and by whom? What is forgotten and what is remembered is a political act, whether within the imperial project of colonial domination or under totalitarian regimes ….

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