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 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONTHE CULTURAL POLITICS OF MEMORY  CENTRE FOR CRITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, 14-16 MAY 2014 CALL FOR PAPERSThe politics of remembering and forgetting are important social and cultural issues. The authority, power and resources with which to create hegemonic versions of the past – to give authoritative accounts that are available in the public domain – are largely the property of institutions. Questions of power, voice, representation and identity are central to Cultural and Collective Memory.This interdisciplinary conference will address how hegemonic narratives of the past are reproduced or challenged. It will examine the role of Cultural and Collective Memory in shaping meanings, values and identities. Papers are encouraged to address the relationship between past and present in Cultural and Collective Memory and how this relates to social power relations.Papers are welcome in areas such as:Cultural memory and the archiveCurating memoryGlobalised memoryMarginalised historiesMemory and affectMemory and anti-colonial struggleMemory and classMemory as gender/sexual politicsNew technologies and memoryPublic historyRacialised memoryReligion and cultural memorySpace, place and memoryTheoretical approaches to cultural and collective memoryPlease send a 300 word extract and a short CV to: cpm@cardiff.ac.ukDeadline for the receipt of abstracts: 31 January 2014