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Memory

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RISe Thematic Workshop: Memory

Wednesday, 23 January 2013
12:00 – 14:00
Location: CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, SG2 (Ground Floor)

 

List of Participants

This page lists the participants to the thematic workshop, with their contact details and a short statement on their research and/or their interest in the workshop's theme (in less than 10 lines).

 

Note: In order to edit these pages you will have to register (link at top right). If you do not wish to register directly, email the RISe Co-ordinator (crasshpd AT hermes.cam.ac.uk) to request a dummy registration account; be sure to identify yourself by name for any comments you make for the benefit of the other participants.

 

Naures Atto

Contact details: Faculty of Divinity

Statement: 

As a social anthropologist I have a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Faculty of Divinity. In my research I have encountered that memories of past violent events in the Middle East experienced by Assyrians/Syriacs living the European diaspora play a central role in their orientation in life. I want to look into the question of what role these memories play in what I have termed the ‘Hostages and Orphans Dilemma’ which Assyrians/Syriacs experience in relation to the former homeland(s) and the contemporary and future homeland(s).

 

 

Zerrin Biner

Contact details: Division of Social Anthropology

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Patrick Burns

Contact details: Department of Psychology

Statement: My research concerns the development of episodic memory in early childhood. Episodic memory is a term used to identify memories of personally experienced events that are remembered as being personally experienced. That is, there is a self aware and reflective component of the memory. It is thought by some that this form of memory is inaccessible to children before the age of four as they have yet to acquire certain concepts that seem necessary for this form of memory (an understanding of time as linear; an ability to engage in meta-representation). In my research I challenge this view by looking for evidence for what we call 'minimal' episodic memory in 2- and 3-year-olds, i.e. a form of memory that is re-experiential but does not require sophisticated conceptual abilities.

 

 

Juniper Hill

Contact details: Faculty of Music

Statement: I am a Marie Curie fellow in the faculty of music doing a research project on sociocultural enablers of creativity in music. How musical materials are stored in the memory, and a musician's facility in accessing the stored materials, are crucial to creative musical activities (such as improvisation). I'm particularly interested in how certain learning methods, social conventions, and cultural values influence the way musicians build up a mental storehouses and develop the agility to apply them in the moment of performance.

 

 

Giuseppina Mutri

Contact details: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

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Jenna Ng

Contact details: CRASSH

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Fimyar Olena

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James Purdon

Contact details: Jesus College

Statement: I recently completed a PhD in English, focussing on the relationship between modern British fiction and government information systems. From there, I have begun to develop interests in Cold War information systems, and particularly in changing representations of memory. I'm interested in exploring the role of memory in Cold War fiction and film as anxiety, fascination, and resource: what can we learn from the representation of newly plausible nonhuman memories like Kubrick's HAL or Philip K. Dick's androids? What new epistemological questions are raised (or ignored) by the amnesiac and hypermnesiac texts of Cold War paranoia? I am inclined to consider these questions from a broadly historical angle, but am also interested in thinking about new theoretical perspectives (particularly in media theory, informatics, and posthumanism) and look forward to learning from other disciplinary approaches.

 

 

Lucy Razzall

Contact details: Emmanuel College

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Charlotte Roberts

Contact details: Faculty of English, Clare College

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My current research is focused on the experience of history and understandings of the past in eighteenth-century Britain and Europe. In particular I am interested in places, discourses or activities that allow those who engage with them to reflect on the relationship between present and past. My research thus far has concentrated on the eighteenth-century experience of classical history, but I am keen to explore the ways in which individuals experienced the more recent past, and perhaps especially the ways in which historical reflection might combine with personal recollection: in early nineteenth-century reflections on recent revolutionary conflict, for example. Is the 'historicisation' of memory (the imaginative conversion of personal recollection into historical testimony) a way of managing distressing, radical, or otherwise disturbing societal experience?

 

Britta Schilling 

Contact details: Faculty of History

Statement: 

My PhD research in History was on the memory of German colonialism from 1919 until the present. I am particularly interested in the interaction between memory and material culture, as well as public vs private realms of memory. As a historian, much of my approach is based on the works of Maurice Halbwachs and Jan and Aleida Assmann, but also borrowing from archaeologists and art historians. I look forward to hearing about different theoretical approaches used by researchers working in other disciplines, and to what extent they have found them useful in their work.

 

 

Isabelle Vella Gregory 

Contact details: Christ's College. Email: iv219.

Statement: As an archaeologist, I am interested in humanity and the way in which people constructed and manipulated their worlds. While archaeology is based on materiality, we also look at broader issues like landscape, performance, memory etc. Archaeology is a very multi-disciplinary subject, simply because we are trying to understand the complexity that constitutes humanity. My current research is based on the island of Malta and its prehistoric temples. Current research themes include: monumentality, memory, social complexity, technology and the body. I'm always interested in multi-disciplinary discussion and collaboration, in particular seminars and conferences and publishing research. 

 

 

 

 

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