Memory: Silence, Screen and Spectacle Conference at New School, 3/24 - 3/26

The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School recommends...

the Fourth Annual New School Interdisciplinary Memory Conference:

Memory: Silence, Screen and Spectacle

March 24-26, 2011

The New School for Social Research, New York City

Speakers Include:

Marianne Hirsch, Susannah Radstone, Diana Taylor,

Yael Hersonski, Dirk Moses, William Hirst, Tom Allen,

Cynthia Milton, Daniel Levy, Louis Bickford, Jonathan Bach,

Rick Crownshaw, Susan Pearce, and many others

For information on the 2011 conference visit

www.newschool.edu/nssr/subpage.aspx?id=57135

or email nssrmemoryconference@gmail.com

Seminar (3/24): Memories of Slavery : Genealogy of National Denial and Resilience

NYU & CNRS Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences announces a new seminar series on

Memory and Memorialization:
Representing Trauma and War

Our collaborators for this series are the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and the Mémorial de Caen (France). Financed by the Partner University Fund (PUF/FACE) of the French Embassy in Washington, our multidisciplinary research project brings together leading academic experts on memory (in its historical, socio-cultural, psychological and neurological manifestations) with top museum professionals engaged in the development and operation of contemporary memorial museums.

Memories of Slavery : Genealogy of National Denial and Resilience

March 24, 2010 (4.30-7.30 pm)
Myriam Cottias | Historian | CNRS

Commentators: Fred Cooper, historian
(NYU), Joseph E. Ledoux, neuroscientist
(NYU), M.-Cl. Lavabre, sociologist (CNRS
by video conference)