The enthusiasm for the research and public engagement work the Memory Network is undertaking is felt not only by academic colleagues and members of the general audience, but at the postgraduate level. The Memory Network is therefore setting up a postgraduate branch, led by Max Berghege (Queen Mary) and Naomi Fitzpatrick (St Andrews). Max and Naomi will establish a steering committee, set up a website, and organise a research seminar series and our first postgraduate conference. If anyone knows postgrads in any academic discipline who might be suitable to join the steering committee, please contact Max Berghege.
Author: Nick
‘We all know the feeling when a word is on the tip of the brain, but we cannot actually reach it. It could be a historical fact, a forgotten title of a pop song or the name of the fifth Beatle. Anyone with a smart phone knows the temptation of looking up the answer via search machines such as Google. But we also, perhaps intuitively, feel a sense of danger in the knowledge that using such artificial cognitive technology could make our brains lazy…’
Sebastian Groes pits Plato against Einstein in his blog post for the Cheltenham Literature Festival, whose theme this year is memory. The Memory Network has put on several events as part of the festival, including the upcoming Climate Change and the Art of Memory and the Proust Phenomenon.