Connecting Memories Keynote Lectures
For a variety of reasons, all three of the keynote lectures this semester had to be cancelled.
We are however looking into the possibility of rescheduling them.
More information will be posted here in due course.
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We are however looking into the possibility of rescheduling them.
More information will be posted here in due course.
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We are delighted to announce this semester's Connecting Memories keynote lectures.
The full programme of keynote lectures this semester will be as follows:
Friday, 7th February 2020*
Prof Yvonne McEwen (University of Wolverhampton, War and Conflict Studies)
Friday, 6th March 2020
Prof Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University, Contemporary German History)
Friday, 3rd April 2020
Prof Edward Hollis (Edinburgh College of Art, Interior Design and Architecture)
More details about each lecture are listed below.
Friday, 7th February 2020
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Unfortunately the first Connecting Memories keynote lecture this semester was cancelled. We hope to reschedule Prof Yvonne McEwen’s lecture, ‘Blood Brothers and Brothers in Arms: The Scots and their Relationship with the Indigenous Peoples of North America’ and will announce details as and when they become available. |
Friday, 6th March 2020
At the next Connecting Memories Keynote Lecture,
Prof Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent University)
will present a paper entitled
‘Empirically Grounded Theories, or Prescriptions for How to Remember?
On the Idealism of Memory Studies’.
An abstract for the talk can be found below.
The lecture, which will be followed by a Q&A and a wine reception, will take place in
Room (G.06), 50 George Square, Edinburgh on Friday, 6th March 2020 at 6pm.
The event is free of charge.
Please note the later start time of this event. This is due to the UCU industrial action. The later start date than usual means the event falls outwith the working day and that no-one will need to cross picket lines to attend the event.
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Prof Niven's abstract:
The last decades have seen the emergence of a number of related theories which seek to explain developments in contemporary memory: cosmopolitan memory, transnational memory, multidirectional memory, palimpsestic memory, travelling memory, and, most, recently, agonistic memory. All of these theories have caught on, enjoying wide circulation, and often triumphantly proclaimed against the supposed ‘methodological nationalism’ of approaches prior to this. Without wishing to undermine the value of these theories, or overlook the differences between them, this talk takes issue with their analytical shortcomings, and asks if they are not more prescriptive than descriptive: more the result of academic wishful thinking and perhaps unintended moralising than of close empirical study. The poster can be downloaded here as a PDF file:
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Friday, 7th April 2020
Prof Edward Hollis (Edinburgh College of Art) will present a paper entitled
‘Memory Palaces, Concrete Monstrosities and other Building Stories.’
An abstract for the talk can be found below.
The lecture, which will be followed by a Q&A and a wine reception, will take place in
the Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square, Edinburgh on Friday, 7th April 2020 at 5.30pm.
The event is free of charge.
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Prof Hollis's abstract:
Edward Hollis is a recovering architect. He writes stories about buildings, the interiors they contain, and the ways in which they change over time – and the ways in which stories do not just describe, but are the agents of those processes of change. In this talk Hollis will discuss his quasi-fictional writing about buildings and interiors, and also his experiments in using storytelling to change them, from the concrete ruins of a modernist cemetery in Argyll to the open-cast coal mines of West Bengal. The poster can be downloaded here as a PDF file:
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About Prof Hollis:
He started his career practicing in Sri Lanka, and then in Edinburgh and in 1999, he began lecturing in Interior Architecture at Napier University, Edinburgh, moving to Edinburgh College of Art in 2004, where he is now Professor of interior Design.
His first book, ‘The Secret Lives of Buildings’: a collection of folk tales stories about mythical buildings was published in 2009; and his second ‘The Memory Palace: a book of lost Interiors’ was published in 2013. His third book, ‘How to Make a Home’ was published for the School of Life in 2016.
He has also been involved in diverse projects in using storytelling to help develop new uses for old buildings, from St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross to Riddles Court, the oldest house in Edinburgh, and now in Asansol, a city in India built by Scots engineers in the nineteenth century.
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