{"id":242,"date":"2026-07-30T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T07:17:38","slug":"2011-narratives-nostalgia-nationhoods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/conferences\/2011-narratives-nostalgia-nationhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 &#8211; Narratives, Nostalgia, Nationhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-286 size-large has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7-upscaled-4x-691x1024.jpg)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-contrast-background-color has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-default has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-style-default is-vertical is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d8dce8eb wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-text-display is-style-text-display--1\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">\u201cNarratives, Nostalgia, Nationhoods&#8221;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The <strong><strong>3<\/strong><sup>rd<\/sup> Apartheid Archive Conference<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-container-content-d613cd94\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>27 \u2013 29 July 2011<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Afrca.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">The aim of this conference is to explore various deployments of nostalgia in personal narratives of the past, emphasising its critical and creative possibilities. The conference will bring into conversation a diversity of scholars critically engaged with nostalgia as a means to expand social memory, reclaim and reconfigure subjugated knowledge(s) and experience(s), and to produce new knowledge(s) and new subjectivities. The conference will also endeavour to surface ways in which the nostalgia is employed not only as a means of reconstructing historical knowledge and subjectivities but also as \u201ca set of resources for the future\u201d (Pickering &amp; Keightley 2006, 937).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of this conference is to explore various deployments of nostalgia in personal narratives of the past, emphasising its critical and creative possibilities. The conference will bring into conversation a diversity of scholars critically engaged with nostalgia as a means to expand social memory, reclaim and reconfigure subjugated knowledge(s) and experience(s), and to produce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288,"parent":174,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/819"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.apartheidarchive.org\/colour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}