Follow tweets from this event Wednesday: #memorystudieslive University of Glasgow, Wednesday 17th April 2013, 9am-5.50pm BST Does promiscuous media make for promiscuous memory? Even the sciences-of-the-mind increasingly search for cognition – the mental process of awareness, perception, remembering – outside of the head, extended and distributed across digital/social worlds. Memory is breaking out of the archive, the organization, the institution, increasingly diffused across brains, bodies, and personal and public lives. Has the digital leached away scarcity, trust, obligation, and much of memory’s former faithful companions? ‘Memory’ today seems different, strange, but which has also acquired (paradoxically) new force and new uncertainties. Is connectivity irresistible? Is memory lost to the machine? Is the archive broken? Six leading experts in the fields of media archaeology, media studies and memory studies assess the emergent forces of remembering and forgetting in the new media ecology: Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University, Berlin. Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art Wulf Kansteiner, SUNY, Binghamton José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam Anna Reading, King's College London William Merrin, Swansea University Glasgow Memory Group: http://bit.ly/YEaXTB Speaker abstracts here: http://bit.ly/149ojLa __________________________________________________ Professor Andrew Hoskins Interdisciplinary Research Professor http://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/socialsciences/ourstaff/andrewhoskins/ Founding Editor-in-Chief, Memory Studies (http://mss.sagepub.com) Director, Adam Smith Research Foundation College of Social Sciences University of Glasgow 66 Oakfield Avenue Glasgow G12 8LS T: +44 (0)141 330 7656 F: +44 (0)141 330 7491 W: www.glasgow.ac.uk<http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/> The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401