The Past is Still to Change: Performing History from 1945 to the Present

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21st-23rd October 2009,
Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

This conference is focused upon an important issue for contemporary society ­ that of interpreting the past and writing its history, .... proposing that history is not a stable body of fact(s) but a shifting range of meanings produced by different cultural, social and political practices (such as rituals of public memory, historical re-enactments, museums, memorials et al.) and that the general images of the past are substantially affected by art (literature, visual arts, theatre, film, performance). .... The conference will open a discussion concerning the performative means of (re)constructing the past, going beyond a passive interpretation of historical texts, activating a participation in the 'performing' of history."

Please note that the deadline for submitting papers is now past.

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