Mediated Memory: Of Monuments, Machines and Madeleines
21 January 2010
This symposium has been organised by Anthony Ross as part of the Beyond Text Student-led initiative funding scheme.
Mediated Memory: Of Monuments, Machines and Madeleines
Mediated Memory: Of Monuments, Machines and Madeleines
Mediated Memory: Of Monuments, Machines and Madeleines
Mediated Memory: Of Monuments, Machines and Madeleines
University of Glasgow, Friday 29th January 2010
9.30 |
Registration / Coffee and Madeleines |
10.00 |
Welcome / Introduction / Admin |
10.15 |
Keynote speaker: Dr Mariangela Palladino, “Hand, Writing and Memory” |
11.15 |
Coffee |
11.40 |
Panel 1: Madeleines
- Giuseppe Episcopo (University of Edinburgh), “Topothesia and Uncanny Memories”
- Aislinn Hunter (University of Edinburgh), “Reaching Out: Beloved Objects, Resonance, and the Necessity of Touch in Object Transformation”
- Andy MacGregor (University of Glasgow), “Reminiscence, Reason and Reverie: Associationism and Memory”
- Michael Rodgers (University of Stratchclyde), “Eternal Concurrence: A Nietzschean Analysis of Nabokov’s Art of Memory”
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13.10 |
Lunch |
14.10 |
Panel 2: Machines
- Galit Wellner (Bar-Ilan University), “The Cellular Phone via a Stieglerian Prism”
- Laura Findlay (University of Dundee), “Remembering the World Trade Center: A Sonic Memorial”
- Peter Cudmore (University of Edinburgh), “Art Loves Chance: Secondary Orality and Intersubjective Technology”
- Philippa Lovatt (University of Glasgow), “The Trauma of Forgetting: A study of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s video installation, Primitive (2009)”
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15.40 |
Coffee |
16.00 |
Panel 3: Monuments
- Alexandra Hibbett (Birkbeck, University of London), “The Literary Mediation of Memory in Peru: The Shining Path in Lituma en los Andes by Mario Vargas Llos”
- Ian Isherwood (University of Glasgow), “Monumental Fallacy: Memorials to the Lost Cause at Gettysburg”
- Chris Kempshall (University of Sussex), “Editing the Acceptable Face”
- Maria Francesca Martinez Tagliavia (École des hautes études en sciences sociales), "Blob: A Visual Archive and a Palimpsest of Imagination"
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17.30 |
Symposium ends |