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Memory Network Collaboration with Cheltenham Literary Festival

The Memory Network is working closely with Cheltenham Literary Festival and will organise a number of events at the Festival in October. It is anticipated that the ‘Re-wired’ event, which investigates the effects of new technology and media on human memory, and the ‘Memory and Prediction’ event (with novelist Giles Foden, amongst) will be staged at the festival. More news to follow soon.

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The Memory Network links up with South-East Asian universities

Recently the Memory Network’s Principal Investigator Sebastian Groes travelled to Malaysia to forge links with Malaysia’s UKM university, and to start a South-East Asian branch of the AHRC-funded project. Groes taught and lectured during his visit to University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and set up two memory-related projects with colleagues there. The first is a health awareness project, ‘Biographies of Kuala Lumpur’, which centres on a biopsychosocial mapping of one of South-East Asia’s most successful cities, Kuala Lumpur (‘KL’). This project is particularly interested in how memory and self-perception are implicated in obesity, one of the greatest health threats in the West and in Malaysia. Simultaneously, Groes and colleagues kick-started a cultural memory research project focusing on Kuala Lumpur and its cultural and social heritage. For this project, “KL: Visions and Voices of the City”, UKM students have started creating a collective psychogeography of the city on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kl.visionsvoices