BAAS Conference at Leicester
BAAS conference at Leicester today – ‘Memory: America Past, Present and Future’. A jam packed day with fascinating papers and an excellent keynote speaker in Brian Ward. Lots of food for thought but I was particularly intrigued by the idea of a collective traumatic memory that can resurface in place setting with literature as Dan Mattingly from Swansea University discussed in “What’s Memory?†– Understanding America’s Problematic Relationship with the ‘Ordeal of Memory’ in the Novels of Jonathan Franzen.