On Thursday and Friday, February 26 -27, the second annual conference of The New School for Social Research Interdisciplinary Memory Group will be held.
This conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars and practitioners of memory to examine the relationship that past has to the present and future. The conference addresses pressing concerns about the relationship of memory to democratic politics. Important themes include: the internationalization of memory; denial, imposture and historical events; memory and revenge; narrative and visual memory; and memory (studies) and the future.

Among the many panels taking place during the conference there will be two keynote addresses. On the first day of the conference Professor Dori Laub, clinical professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, and deputy director of Trauma Studies, Genocide Studies will give a talk titled, “Holocaust Testimonies: Between Abyss and Creativity: The evolving struggle for mental representation and remembrance.” On the second day Dr. Jerome Bruner, research professor of Psychology, New York University, and senior research fellow in Law, New York University School of Law will give a talk titled, “And just what do we mean by memory?”

The conference which is supported and made possible by The New School for Social Research Dean’s Office and the New Sociological Imagination series by the Sociology Department will be held in the New Wolff Conference, 6 East 16th Street, room 906 and 913.

For more information go to the conference website  or to email, NSSRMemoryConference@gmail.com .