Conference Alert

6th “MEMORY, FORGETTING AND CREATING”
International Interdisciplinary Conference

Online | 19-20 January 2023

Organizer: InMind Support

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

In our increasingly fast-paced societies, where information is abundant, and its reception is superficial, human memory appears to be an endangered phenomenon. This is why we would like to take a closer look at the complex processes of memory. These include forgetting, neglecting, negation, detachment, and creating, recollecting, remembering, regaining memories, and reconstructing one’s relationship with the past. We are deeply interested in examples and consequences of altered memories: invention, fabrication, deception, indoctrination or propaganda. We invite reflection on mutual relations between memory and imagination, fantasising and manipulating, forgetting and creating.
We would like all these problems to be contextualised as broadly as possible, with reference to historical, social, religious, cultural, psychological, artistic and other factors. Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case studies, theoretical investigations, problem-oriented arguments, and comparative analyses.

The conference is intended as an interdisciplinary event. Hence, we invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: anthropology, history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, neurophysiology, literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, memory studies, consciousness studies, dream studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, animal studies, medical sciences, psychiatry, social policy, cognitive sciences and others.

We will be happy to hear from experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers and doctoral and graduate students. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners, without giving a presentation. We hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature, the conference will bring many interesting observations and discussions about the role of memory in the past and the present-day world.
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Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to:

  • Lost Memory
  • Memory Loss
  • Stolen Memory
  • Abandoned Memory
  • Memory as a Trap
  • Memory Regained
  • Dubious Memory
  • Memory and Imagination
  • Memory and Art
  • Memory and Science

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Call for Proposals and Registration

Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations, together with a short biographical note, by 31 December 2022 to: conferencememory@gmail.com  or by REGISTRATION FORM
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 3 January 2023.

The conference’s language is English.

Registration:
In order to participate in the conference (as a speaker or an audience member), you need to pay a REGISTRATION FEE via bank transfer or PayPal:

PRESENTERS: EUR 30 or USD 35 or GBP 30 or PLN 110 – by 12 January 2023
AUDIENCE MEMBERS: EUR 20 or USD 25 or GBP 20 or PLN 70 – by 18 January 2023

NOTE: We offer a discount for our returning Participants.

For more information, please access the conference website