Call for Papers
“LOVE & LOSS” – Third symposium by THE NOSTAGAIN NETWORK
An interdisciplinary symposium featuring creative and critical perspectives on nostalgia, longing, attachment, and grief
February 14, 2025
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (and online – see event website)
http://www.nostagain.ca/cfp2025
Deadline for submission of abstracts and research creation works: January 12, 2025
The NOSTAGAIN NETWORK is looking for paper presentations and research creation projects for our symposium “LOVE & LOSS” on February 14, 2025.
THE SYMPOSIUM:
Nostalgia is a complex thing to talk about and pinpoint. Scholarly efforts to recognize the more positive and creative aspects of nostalgia have opened up insights for how nostalgia can be beneficial. Yet, inherent to nostalgia is the grief associated with a desire to return to someplace lost or the missing of something lost. There is both love and loss in nostalgia.
What does that look like? We are inviting artists, emerging and established scholars, and from all disciplines, to parse out the bittersweet portrait of nostalgia in our symposium “LOVE & LOSS: Nostalgia Symposium and Research Creation Event.”
Works can be presented, exhibited, or performed. Some prompts are suggested below:
TOPICS:
- How video game cultures appraise things as “nostalgic”, “rare”, “timeless” etc.
- Games about death, grief, dying
- Games about memory, bygone pasts, coming-of-age
- Games about futures, utopias, fighting one’s past
- How the past is depicted in video games
- Mass production of game merchandise
- Preserving sense of place in communities, virtual worlds that are no longer around
- Games as a preservation device for a time, sentiment, community etc.
- Remakes, revivals, reflections of video game franchises into films
- Using AI to bring back what is lost
- The labor of love involved in maintaining video game nostalgia
- (and many more!)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Presentation Abstract: 12th January, 2025
Research Creation Works: 12th January, 2025
Symposium Date: 14th February, 2025
ABOUT THE NOSTAGAIN NETWORK:
The NOSTAGAIN NETWORK is the first student-led interdisciplinary research collective in North America critically honed in on the generative potential and uses of nostalgia. Collectively, we are growing an active network of artists, emerging to established scholars, and enthusiasts of nostalgia within North America and internationally.
FOR FULL DETAILS:
http://www.nostagain.ca/cfp2025
CONTACT:
Richy Srirachanikorn
PhD Student, Social and Cultural Analysis
Concordia University
Co-Founder | THE NOSTAGAIN NETWORK
Sociologist | Nostalgia | Time and Social Control
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