Memory and Meaning

April 28-29, 2017
Herklotz Conference Center

Memory transcends individuals, time, and disciplines. The study of memory is deeply rooted in ancient tradition and has evolved over centuries to include diverse methodologies and interpretive approaches.
In Memory and Meaning, UCI scholars join from over a dozen departments in humanities, arts, sciences, medicine, business, and law to share and discuss their views of memory.

They will address questions such as how humans, individually and collectively, form and retrieve memories, remember themselves and their communities, tell stories about their past, and imagine their future.

Claire Trevor School of the Arts participating professors:

Friday, April 28, 2017
Session 3: Truth and Fiction I
2:00 PM Elizabeth Loftus (CNLM, Psychology and Social Behavior, Law)
The Fiction of Memory
2:30 PM Erika Hayasaki, Barry Siegel (English, Literary Journalism)
The Role of Episodic Memory in Journalism
3:00 PM Jonathan Alexander, Antoinette LaFarge (English, Art)
Imagined Memories, Creative and Critical

Saturday, April 29, 2017
Session 7: Action and Performance
2:00 PM Andromache Karanika (Classics)
A Bride’s Trauma and a Bard’s Performance of Memory in Ancient Greek Poetry
2:30 PM Anthony Kubiak (Drama)
Lineage, Ancestors, and Shamanic Constellations: Performance as Memory
3:00 PM Michael Lee, William Shankle (Cognitive Science and Hoag Neurosciences Institute)
Applying Cognitive Models to Behavioral Memory Tests

Attendance is FREE and open to the UCI community
Online registration and more information at cnlm.uci.edu/meaning

This conference is jointly sponsored by:
UCI Humanities
The Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM) at the Ayala School of Biological Sciences