Memory studies Association 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2019 – MADRID
Memory and Nature Working Group (M&N) – Thursday 12-2 & 4-6 pm
The Working Group on Nature and Memory is a transdisciplinary research group aimed at broadening and deepening the study of human beings’ memory of nature across space and time, as well as humans in nature’s memory. We invite everyone, from all disciplines and beyond to join us in this exciting working group on memory in humans and other forms of life on our planet. Key Areas of Inquiry Include (and are not limited to):
Human Memory of Nature:
1)
creation myths
totemism, shamanism
natural history
cultura
environmental memory
landscape / memoryscape
traumatic natural disasters
memorizing the (dis)use of natural resources
representation of nature in arts and media
the pastoral
the wilderness
2)
Nature’s Memory:
material basis of human memory
genes, DNA, epigenetic memory, memory of matter
neurological memory
natural memory – human and non-human traces
animal memory
plant memory
geological memory
cosmic memory
Anthropocene
Ecocriticism
Posthumanism
new materialism
