| When: | 20 Jun 2020 through 21 Jun 2020 | |
| CFP Deadline: | 01 | |
| Where: | Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
| Website URL: | http://memory.lcir.co.uk/ | |
| Sponsoring organization: | LCIR | |
| Categories: | Life Sciences - Neuroscience | 
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Event description:
                                        Memory is a major theme in contemporary life, a key to personal, social and cultural identity. Scholars have studied the concept from different perspectives and within different disciplines: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, urban design, and the interdisciplinary “place studies”. According to Pierre Nora, places of memory or lieux de mémoire refer to those places where “memory crystallizes and secretes itself”; the places where the exhausted capital of collective memory condenses and is expressed. To be considered as such, these sites must be definable in the three senses of the word: material, symbolical and functional, all in different degrees but always present. What makes them a memory site is the interplay of memory and history, the interaction of both factors, which allows their reciprocal over-determination.
“The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place” International Conference aims to spark new conversations across the field of memory and plac...
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