October 02, 2008

"Memory & . . ."          
An interdisciplinary discussion series at Davidson

March 11, 2009 - Memory & Evolution
Panelists:
Prof. Karen Hales (Biology)
“An Evolutionary View of our Malleable, Imperfect Memory”
Prof. Annie Ingram (English)
"Memory and the Evolution of Language"
Prof. Neil Lerner (Music)
"Memory, Evolution, and Music"

February 11, 2009 - Memory & Self            
Panelists:
Prof. Shireen Campbell  (English)
"Memory & Self: A Creative Nonfiction Scholar’s Reflections"
Prof. Maggie McCarthy (German)
"Memory, Trauma and Dreams of Electric Sheep"
Prof. Kristi Multhaup (Psychology)
"Memory & Self: A Cognitive Psychologist’s Reflections"

November 11, 2008 - Memory & Narrative
Panelists:
Prof. Scott Denham (German)
“Fictions Making Truth: Constructions of Cultural Memory in German Narratives of Wartime Suffering”
Prof. Matt Samson (Anthropology)
"Between Absence and Presence in the Recovery of Historical Memory: Reflections on the Guatemalan Experience" 
Prof. Patricia Tilburg (History) 
"Romance in the Sweatshop: Gender, Labor, and Historical Memory in Paris, 1900-1918"

November 7, 2008   KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DR. WILLIAM HIRST, Ph.D., Cornell University; B.A., Carnegie-Mellon University
"Finding a Place for Psychology in the Study of Collective Memory"

 Dr. Hirst, Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research in NYC, was the keynote speaker for the interdisciplinary discussion series at Davidson "Memory & . . ."   Dr. Hirst  has previously taught at Rockefeller University, Princeton University, and Cornell Medical College.  He is a leading expert on memory, especially autobiographical memory and social influence on memory, and has published articles on such diverse topics as amnesia, traumatic memory, collective memory, and memory relating to September 11.  His courses include "Introduction to Cognitive Psychology", "Collective and Autobiographical Memory and their Contribution to Identity", and "Remembering Trauma". 

October 2, 2008 - Memory & Tradition in African-American Culture
Panelists:
Prof. Nancy Fairley (Anthropology)
"‘Reading White Folk’: Memory and Family in the African American
Community"
Prof. Hilton Kelly (Education)
"‘Dying with One’s Boots On’: Hidden Transcripts in Memories of Legally Segregated Schools for Blacks"
Prof. Anne Wills (Religion)
"‘May God Forget Me if I Forget’: Memory & Tradition in African-American Religion"

Memory Group Coordinating Committee:
Prof. Barbara Lom  (Biology)
Prof. Scott Denham (German)
Prof. Hilton Kelly (Education)
Prof. Kristi Multhaup (Psychology)

Supported by an Associated Colleges of the South Mellon Faculty Renewal Grant and Davidson’s Department of Education, Department of Psychology, Public Lectures Committee & Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

Posted By: Vicki Heitman