Sociology of Memory: New and Classical Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private?
Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting
Seattle, Washington, USA
March 10-13, 2011
Submissions: October 15, 2010

Sociology of Memory: New and Classical Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private?

Papers about: collective memory; personal memory; narrative; new and classical sociological theories and conceptualizations of memory; sociological, psychological, historical or legal conceptualizations pertaining to personal, trauma, repressed, body memory; socio-political issues pertaining to "commodity memory" (such as electronic dataveillance, video surveillance; seed, sperm, egg or DNA banking); drug technology to improve or repress memory; and closely related topics are invited to present their research at the 2011 Pacific Sociological Association's 82st Annual meeting, to be held in Seattle, Washington, March 10-13, 2011.

Past papers from this session are featured in the book, Sociology of Memory: Papers from the Spectrum (2009), from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Visit the Pacific Sociological Association website at www.pacificsoc.org for conference information and follow paper submission procedures in the Science, Technology and Knowledge Section. Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2010.

For more information contact Noel Packard packardn@prodigy.net