product of public acts of remembrance using a variety of media.

Stories, both oral and

written, images, museums, monuments: these all work together in creating and
sustaining sites of memory. (Astrid Erll and Ann Rigney, 2006)

On the other hand, remembrance and amnesia are key parts of the mechanisms of the
human mind or mysterious ways of the complex activity of the psyche. One can easily
argue that works of literature, which have focused the memory of the individual in
subjective ways, are sufficient in number and quality to compose a genre in its own.
(Jonathan Lethem, 2000)The conference aims to provide a platform for discussions and
research, which consider various aspects of literature as a memorial medium to
contribute to the larger discussion of the ways in which societies recollect their past and
as a field of observation of personal memory to explore and experience the complexities
of the mind and emotions.

Scholars from difference fields such as political science, history, sociology, anthropology,
gender studies, urban studies, architecture, literature, poetry, art history, life sciences
and other fields are welcomed to propose their interdisciplinary work at the conference.

TOPICS
VENUE
PROGRAM

Collective Memory, Personal Memory

Memory and the Past

History and Memory

Memory in Literature

Memory and Film

Memory and Contemporary Arts