Conference topic: Politics of Memory. Keynote speakers: Laura Mulvey (Department of History of Art and Screen Media, University of London) and Lauren Berlant (Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago). Proposals are invited from scholars from different fields and disciplines of humanities and social sciences for individual papers (30 minutes including discussion time). Please send proposals (no more than 300 words in length) to rhss.conference@gmail.com by June 1st 2012. Selected conference papers will be published. Detailed call for papers (pdf).