An Introduction Memento [film] Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English) The Biological Foundations of Short Term and Long Term Memory Dr. Erin Zimmer (Biology) National Museums and Sites of Memory: Divided Memory and the Holocaust in Vilnius, Lithuania Dr. Edna Kantorovitz Carter Southard (Earlham College) Remembering, Reproduction, and Theological Value: Religious art of Mexiccan immigrants in New Mexico Dr. Dominic Colonna (Theology) Dark City [film] Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English) El Dia de los Muertos: A sophisticated Pre-literate Use of Family Memories for Social Bonding and Treatment of Grief Dr. John Greenwood (Psychology) Possible Worlds [film] Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English) Geographical Memory: The 25th anniversary of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Historic Corridor Dr. Dennis Cremin (History) The Reliability of Oral History: the Memory of the African American Community Dr. Mark Schultz (History) Memory in Collaboration: Investigations into Poetry as a Memorializing and Communal Act Dr. Jackie White (English) Dr. Simone Muench (English)
From its beginnings as an oral form, poetry has been an "art of memory," preserving, memorializing, and recontextualizing both individual and public experiences. Poetry, therefore, also has a communal and collaborative nature. To celebrate this, student readers of poems will select and memorize famous poems that articulate or speak for them of memory, and share those poems with student poets who will write and share their responses or imitations based on those poems and exploring their own memories. This event will allow us all to explore how poetry helps us continue to preserve and construct memory, from the intimate and individual to the collective.
Jackie White is the Chair of the Department of English at Lewis University.
Lewis University Department of English