Our institute welcomes leading scholars in the field of Memory Studies for guest lectures every year. At each lecture, one person will present a current research project for approximately 45 minutes; this will be followed by time for questions and discussion, including topics beyond the project presented.
Thursday 3 March, 4 to 6pm. Location: UCO: School 1. Seminar: Dr Gavan Titley (Maynooth University): The Strange Life of Free Speech Today Wednesday 16 March, 6:30 to 8pm. Location: Lower Parliament Hall. This event was coordinated by the School of Art History, Museum & Gallery Studies in collaboration with CIMS. Seminar: Prof. Eudine Barriteau (University of the West Indies … Read more
Monday 8 November, 1pm. Online via Teams. Fabulation and Forgetting in Literature and Memory Studies (See it on YouTube) Speakers: Dr Avishek Parui and Dr Merin Simi Raj (Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras) This talk will engage with the experiential entanglements of fabulation and forgetting as represented in literature and memory studies. Drawing on psychological as … Read more
Wednesday 24th March 2021, 16:00-17:00 Meeting link Following our Brexit means ? series in 2017, we return to the theme at the end of the transition period. As we come to terms with what this means, there is an opportunity to draw on the local expertise at the University to engage in a productive discussion of the … Read more
Following our Brexit means ? series in 2017, we return to the theme at the end of the transition period. As we come to terms with what this means, there is an opportunity to draw on the local expertise at the University to engage in a productive discussion of the issues involved. Our first webinar this semester … Read more
Dr Avishek Parui and Dr Merin Simi Raj (Memory Studies Research Network, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras): ‘Encoding, Effacing, and the Phenomenon of Forgetting’ The talk will examine the neural and narrative mechanisms of memory in terms of examining it as an enactive process which incorporates encoding as well as effacement, sometimes simultaneously. It will … Read more
Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (University of Warwick):‘Tactile Translations: Re-Locating the Disappeared’ This paper examines the manner in which the term ‘the disappeared’ now circulates globally, by considering the case of the disappeared of the Northern Irish conflict. The paper examines visual art’s role as the bearer of memories of the illegally detained, forcibly migrated, and improperly buried, and draws on … Read more
Stef Craps poster Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, Belgium, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. His research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, memory and trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism and environmental humanities. He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, … Read more
Ann Rigney holds the chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht and is a member of the Royal Dutch Academic of Sciences (KNAW) and of the Academia Europea. Her research interests lie in the intersections between narrative, collective identity, and contestations of the past. She has published widely in the field of modern memory cultures, … Read more
Public Lecture: Dr Bruno Brulon (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro -UNIRIO), with School of Art History: Rio De Janeiro’s favela museums and cultural landscapes’ Bruno Brulon Soares is an anthropologist and museologist who is currently a Professor of Museology at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), in … Read more
Venue: School II, United College Date: Friday 6 April, 2018 Time: 17:00
