Each year, the Division of Arts and Humanities celebrates its faculty who have recently been promoted to the rank of professor by asking each to present a public lecture on his or her body of research or creative activity and current projects.
Mark your calendars for Dr. Ludmila Isurin's Iaugural Lecture! The talk tiltle and abstract are below.
Down memory lane: An interdisciplinary perspective on memory studies
In this talk, I will focus on three areas of memory studies, such as loss of memory for the first language, autobiographical memory, and collective memory; and I will take the retrospective and the introspective look at my contribution to these fields. I will discuss the joys and perils of being an interdisciplinary scholar and provide my take on the past, present, and future of memory studies to which I have been contributing for almost two decades. From the discussion of methodological issues faced by research on memory in all three fields, to the problem of finding an outlet for publication of interdisciplinary research on memory, this talk will be a travel down memory lane as well as my take on the future of memory research.
