Remembering in Context: Social, Cognitive, Linguistic, and Material Aspects of Memory

June 14 - 16, 2012

Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University

Convenors:

Dr. Lucas M. Bietti (Essen/Amsterdam), Prof. William Hirst (New York)
Dr. Charles B. Stone (Louvain-la-Neuve)

Provisional Program:

Thursday, June 14^th, 2012

9.30- 9.40         Welcome and Introduction

Day 1: Psychosocial, Emotional, Political and Media Aspects of Remembering

9.40-10.30
Steve Brown (Leicester): The Moving Past: On the Relationship Between Social Remembering and Collective Emotion

10.30-11.20
Christian Gudehus (Flensburg): Sedimented Experiences, Theories of Actions and their Relation to Past, Present, and Future

11.20 –11.40                 Coffee/Tea Break

11.40-12. 30
Kyoko Murakami (Bath): Remembrance and Communitas: Pilgrimages to Prison Camps and Battlegrounds in the Far East

12.30-14.00                  Lunch Break

14.00-14.50 Open Forum

14.50-15.40
Paula Reavey (London): Ars Oblivionalis: The Ethical Dimensions of Social Forgetting

15.40-16.00                  Coffee break

16.00-16.50
Andrew Hoskins (Glasgow): Into the Deep Now: Remembering After the Connective Turn

16.50-17.05 Alan Cienki (Amsterdam) Discussant

17.05-17.45 Discussion

18.00                Dinner at ZiF

Friday, June 15^th, 2012

Day 2:  The Cognitive, Linguistic and Interactional Basis of Remembering

9.40-10.30
Alan Cienki (Amsterdam) & Lucas Bietti (Essen/Amsterdam): A Qualitative Method for Analyzing Processes of Multimodal Alignment During Shared Remembering

10.30-11.20
Anna Kuhlen (Berlin): Storytelling as Joint Activity: Interactive, Multimodal, and Neurophysiological Perspectives

11.20-11.40                  Coffee Break

11.40-12.30
Gerald Echterhoff (Münster): The Context-Sensitive Reorganization of Person Memory: Effects of Post-Communication Feedback in Studies of Shared Reality

12.30-14.00                  Lunch Break

14.00-14.50
Irene Mittelberg (Aachen): At Human Scale: Gestural Memories of Architectural Space

14.50-15.40
Michele Summa (Heidelberg) & Sabine Koch (Heidelberg): Body Memory: Phenomenological Approach and Empirical Findings

15.40-16.00                  Coffee Break

16.00-16.50
Chris Sinha (Lund): Finding Ourselves in Time: Time intervals as Cultural Artefacts

16.50-17.05 William Hirst (New York) Discussant

17.05-17.45 Discussion

Saturday, June 16^th, 2012

Day 3: Autobiographical, Collective and Distributed Remembering

9.40-10.30
William Hirst (New York): Differences in Generational Memories of Conflict and War: Some Underlying Cognitive Processes

10.30-11.20
Charles Stone (Louvain): Toward a Science of Silence: Retrieval-Induced Forgetting and The Consequences of Leaving a Memory Unsaid

11.20-11.40                  Coffee Break

11.40-12.30
Celia Harris (Sydney): Cognitive Interdependence and Shared Remembering in Older Couples

12.30-14.00       Lunch Break

14.00- 14.50
Elise van den Hoven (Eindhoven): Materializing Memories: Using Design to Support Everyday Remembering

14.50-15.40
Hans J. Markowitsch (Bielefeld): When Remembering Becomes Knowledge – The Riddle of Dissociative Amnesia

15.40-16.00       Andrew Hoskins (Glasgow) Discussant

16.00-16.20       Coffee Break

16.20-17.00 Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks