The NSSR Interdisciplinary Memory Group invites you to the following event:
Friday, April 27, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
EVENING KEYNOTE AND RECEPTION
(The New School for Social Research, Wolff Conference Room, 6 East 16th Street, 11th Floor)
"Memory Palaces - The Renaissance and the Contemporary World"
Lina Bolzoni
Global Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies
New York University
Global Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies
New York University
An ancient tradition teaches the
art of memory. This art builds palaces in the mind in which to place
images that help us to remember. While this tradition may at first sight
appear radically remote from the world we live in today, it
nevertheless regularly resurfaces in different forms. This talk
describes the most famous "theatre of memory" of the Renaissance, the
magical-hermetic Theatro of Giulio Camillo, and draws comparisons with
the Encyclopedic Palace of the World (now in the American Folk Art
Museum of New York), the brainchild of an Italian emigrant who developed
this project for Washington Mall in the 1950s. Further contemporary
employments of the ancient memory techniques may be observed in the life
and works of historian Tony Judt and writer Siri Hustdvedt, opening up
intriguing questions as to why such reemergence should occur at this
particular historical juncture.
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This keynote address will be given in conjunction with "The Arts of Memory," the Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Memory Conference at The New School for Social Research, Thursday, April 26 - Friday, April 27, 2012.
More information is attached and the full conference schedule is available on the conference website:
The evening event and conference are both free and open to the public -- please join us!
NSSR Interdisciplinary Memory Group
"The Arts of Memory" -- The 5th Annual NSSR Interdisciplinary Memory Conference -- Thu., Apr 26 - Fri., Apr. 27, 2012
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