Why We Remember: Book Review
Andrea Holck reviews Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us (Faber & Faber, 2024) by Charan Ranganath and reflects on the closeness of memory and imagination in neuroscience and fiction.
Mapping the Moving Body: Diasporic and Disciplinary Crossings
In Part 6 of the Moving Bodies takeover, Arya Thampuran explores the role of embodied movement, cultural memory, and mental health through a decolonial prism.
What We Say About AIDS
This World AIDS Day, Paul Attinello explores perspectives on how we think and talk about HIV/AIDS, and his own thinking over the last four decades. 1 December has been World AIDS Day since 1989.
In the Zine House: The Kitchen
We explore zines that centre food in part four of Lea Cooper’s series about the study of zines in the medical humanities.
In the Zine House: The Bathroom
In Part Three of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we move from the living room to the bathroom, containing zines around (Self-)Care.
In the Zine House: The Living Room
In part two of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we encounter zines about trauma and memory in the living room.
Thinking Tools
Objects and images have been used to ‘think through things’ since antiquity, explains Sarah Griffin, assistant curator at Winchester College.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Remembering
Working across the humanities-science divide: Raphael Lyne and Jon Simons on an interdisciplinary approach to remembering Raphael Lyne, Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English at Cambridge, has been working with
Remembering From-The-Outside: Personal Memory and The Perspectival Mind (Review)
In this post, Kimm Curran reviews Remembering From-The-Outside: Personal Memory and The Perspectival Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), authored by Christopher McCarroll. Remembering From-The-Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind is a
Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning – reviewed by Allison Adler Kroll
‘Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning’ by Mark Sandy (Ashgate, 2013). The central premiss of Mark Sandy’s Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning is that Romantic memory, entirely circumscribed by the profound sense of loss which accompanies all