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Department of Cognitive Science

Memory Day 2010

Macquarie University, Sydney

21st and 22nd of october 2010

Venue

Senate Room, Level 3 of the Lincoln Building (C8A), Macquarie University,

Conference Times

12.30pm to 5.30pm Thursday, 21st October

10.00am to 4.15pm Friday, 22nd October.

Overview

Memory Day 2010 features work-in-progress talks from colleagues interested in memory across a range of disciplines. This year’s program is associated with and supported by Amanda Barnier and John Sutton’s Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project “From autobiographical memory to collective memory: An interdisciplinary study of individual and group cognition” and follows on from our wildly successful Days in 2008 and 2007 -- we skipped 2009 while Amanda was on maternity leave -- and is a descendant of our 2006 Collective Memory Meeting in Coogee.

Our program includes Featured Talks from three outstanding national and international scholars:

Thursday at 12.30pm, Dr Adam Brown (Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Cornell University) who will talk on "Constructing a Collective Memory";

Thursday at 4.50pm, Professor John Hodges (Federation Fellow from Neuroscience Research Australia and UNSW, and co-leader of the new ARC Centre of Excellence on Cognition and its Disorders) who will describe his team's groundbreaking research and its future;

"Twilight of Media, Twilight of Memory" (Professor Hoskins will be giving his Public Lecture on Wednesday night).

Our program also includes 17 talks from junior and senior researchers and scholars across cognitive science, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, forensic psychology, philosophy, media, arts, history, english and more.