Memory in the Life Course

On Monday 10 June we held our third and final workshop of the year. On this occasion we opted for a topically themed workshop, focusing on memory in the life course. Again, we looked to host a mix of presentations as a means of seeking out spaces for interdisciplinary work and discussion.

Once again, group discussion brought to light areas of commonality from a diverse set of papers (deindustrialisation through to Lewy Body dementia, memories of World War II in German school essays through to investigations of hippocampal-dependent memory).

We also took the opportunity at the event to discuss future ideas and the direction of the research group. We are delighted that some very exciting event proposals came through from these discussions, some of which we will be announcing in the near future. 

The papers delivered at the event were:

• Beate Muller: Making sense of wartime memories: Narrated communities and new beginnings in German school essays on World War I
• Sinead Mullally: The rise and fall of episodic memory: investigating hippocampal-dependent memory throughout the lifespan
• Tom Scharf: Constructing home over the life course in rural Ireland
• Calum Hamilton: Convergent routes to memory problems in Alzheimer’s and Lewy bodies: same outcome, but different causes?
• Bruce Davenport: Art, memory and the care of older people
• Andy Clark: Smokestack nostalgia, ruin porn and industrial nostalgia: how should we approach memories of deindustrialisation in 2019?

As with previous events, these talks were used as a springboard for group discussions. Some of the ideas that emerged from these discussions can be seen in the images below.

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