Memory and Forgetting
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What do we mean by truth or falsehood in memory? As our lives and identities become ever more mobile, as refugees leave behind sites and images of awful events, questions of remembering and forgetting become ever more crucial. What do people take with them, and what must they leave behind, as they move through time and geography? And what happens in the leap from tangled individual recollections to the distillations of collective memory? Lisa Appignanesi's novel, The Memory Man, and Eva Hoffman's personal meditation, After Such Knowledge, both take the template of World War II and the Holocaust to probe such questions. With psychoanalysts Susie Orbach and Darian Leader, they tease out some of the psychic and historical complexities of remembering and forgetting.
Archive :: talk:S619808358, venue:V205
Production details
Nash Room
