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Previous courses Summer courses 2012 Memory and the Formation of Individual and Collective Identities
Previous courses Summer courses 2012 Memory and the Formation of Individual and Collective Identities
Memory and the Formation of Individual and Collective Identities
3,4 de july 2012Content
The magnificent balladeers,
from whose deep chanting
downpours fall,
and they make the night turn
with her braid of bright stars,
on a giant stage
where the memories dance.
from whose deep chanting
downpours fall,
and they make the night turn
with her braid of bright stars,
on a giant stage
where the memories dance.
Fragment of El pajarillo viejo by the Venezuelan poet José Jiménez, included in the music album El Nuevo Mundo: Folías Criollas by Jordi Savall
What would we be without memory?. Hard to imagine, because it’s not just that we couldn’t answers questions such as “what’s the capital of Romania” or “where did I leave my mobile”, but we wouldn’t even be able to recall “what I did yesterday” or explain “who is this person looking at me in the mirror”.
This seminar will foster a discussion, from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, about the essentiality of memory for the formation of individual and collective identities, and to that effect we have invited neuroscientists, psychologists, physicians, technologists, sociologists, and historians to engage in a substantive yet accessible reflection on different aspects of memory, from the neuroscience of memory and memory disorders, to history and the politics of memory, to artificial memory and other recall enhancements.
What would we be without memory?. Hard to imagine, because it’s not just that we couldn’t answers questions such as “what’s the capital of Romania” or “where did I leave my mobile”, but we wouldn’t even be able to recall “what I did yesterday” or explain “who is this person looking at me in the mirror”.
This seminar will foster a discussion, from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, about the essentiality of memory for the formation of individual and collective identities, and to that effect we have invited neuroscientists, psychologists, physicians, technologists, sociologists, and historians to engage in a substantive yet accessible reflection on different aspects of memory, from the neuroscience of memory and memory disorders, to history and the politics of memory, to artificial memory and other recall enhancements.
Program
Tuesday, 3 July |
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| 09.00-09.30h | Opening Joan Fuster Sobrepere, academic director acadèmic, CUIMPB-Centre Ernest Lluch Marsal Gavaldà, course director |
| 09.30-11.30h | A history of memory Alison Winter |
| 11.30-12.00h | Break |
| 12.00-14.00h | Autobiographical memory and the construction of the self Martin Conway |
| 14.00-16.00h | Break |
| 16.00-18.00h | Memory and identity Josep Fontana |
Wednesday, 4 Juliol |
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| 09.00-11.00h | Memory disorders Albert Lladó |
| 11.00-11.30h | Break |
| 11.30-13.30h | Artificial memory: from bits to terabytes and the enhacement of human cognition Marsal Gavaldà |
| 13.30-15.30h | Break |
| 15.30-17.30h | Panel discussion with all the speakers “The future or memory” |
Useful Information
- Code: 1202
- Date: 3, 4 July 2012
- Address: Sala Mirador
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
Montalegre, 5
Barcelona
- Direction: Marsal Gavaldà
doctor in language and information technologies from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Vice president of research at Verint Systems, Atlanta, USA.
- Coordination:
- Sponsorship:
- Collaboration:
- More info: Student Office
CUIMPB-Centre Ernest Lluch
Phone: 933 017 555
Fax: 93 442 11 79
info@cuimpb.cat
- Information for University Students: Student Office
CUIMPB-Centre Ernest Lluch
Phone: 933 017 555
Fax: 93 442 11 79
info@cuimpb.cat
- Lecturers:
Martin Conway, professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Leeds, UK, and author ofRecovered Memories and False Memories and Remembering and Imagining: The Role of the Self.
Josep Fontana, historian, professor emeritus at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and author ofLa construcció de la identitat andL'ofici d'historiador.
Marsal Gavaldà, doctor in language and information technologies from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Vice president of research at Verint Systems, Atlanta, USA.
Albert Lladó, neurologist at the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, and specialist of Alzheimer’s disease and other cognitive disorders.
Alison Winter, professor of history at the University of Chicago, USA, and author of Memory: Fragments of a Modern History.
