The Memory Network
The Memory Network’s 2014 conference, ‘The Story of Memory’ was held at the University of Roehampton on the 4th and 5th September. Mark Currie, Professor of Contemporary Literature in the Department of English, Queen Mary, University of London, gave a keynote on ‘Retentional Finitude and Story Form’. This fascinating talk on memory and tense in the fictional ‘selfie’ takes in Aristotle, Augustine, Stiegler and Knausgaard.
What is the unconscious? Where is it? How does it affect our conscious experiences?
The Unconscious Memory Network is a new forum where humanists and neuroscientists can discuss and exchange their research findings on diverse aspects of the unconscious, in particular unconscious memory. The Network aims to bring together scholars from Oxford and beyond as well as to involve new researchers, students, and people from outside the research community.
The Network will be hosting a series of seminars at the University of Oxford. The next will take place on Monday, December 1, is entitled ‘Unconscious Memory and Mental Space’, and will feature the Memory Network’s Dr Sebastian Groes (Roehampton), alongside Professor Michael Burke (Utrecht).
For more information on these events, and on the Unconscious Memory Network’s activities, please visit http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/unconscious