Memories of the Future Conference

International Conference taking place in London 29-30 March 2019. Co-organised by the IMLR, Birkbeck, UCL, Lancaster and Middlesex universities.

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Ingrid Løland's moving presentation: Between #Utopia and #Dystopia: Bridging a violent past with future hopes in #Syrian #refugee narratives #ArabSpring #SyrianWar #MOTF2019 #MemoriesOfTheFuture

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In My Language 'A strong statement on the existence & value of many different kinds of thinking & interaction in a world where how close you can appear to a specific one of them determines whether you are seen as a real person.' From A. Reading's keynote
https://t.co/lbuaNRuiu5

[Dr Georgia Panteli @georgiamagpie]

What a great conference @MemoriesFutur! It has been wonderful listening to amazing papers and keynotes and talking to so many lovely people! Thank you @KatiaPORT and @doctaspes for being such a great co-organising team, as well as everyone else involved. #MOTF2019

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Tara Beaney from Aberdeen university on 'Acts of Remembering in the Ecologically Devastated Future'. Her fascinating talk covered #ClimateCrisis, #clifi, Karen #Duve’s 'Prepper Room' and Yoko #Tawada’s 'The Last Children of Tokyo' #Kentoshi #MemoriesOfTheFuture, #MOTF2019

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Another great paper: Adela Catană, Remember a Possible Future: Memory in Margaret #Atwood’s ‘Ustopias’ #dystopia #ustopia #MOTF2019 #MemoriesOfTheFuture

[Agata G. Handley @AgataHandley]

@MemoriesFutur Photos showed during the presentation: Chas Breton and Eamon Bourke. All the images are related to the film entitled Diary of the Last Man ( by Eamon Bourke @Park6Pro ) created around poems from Minhinnick's last collection. Highly recommended!!!!
https://t.co/B5yHkGz8HE

[Agata G. Handley @AgataHandley]

@MemoriesFutur Thank you @MemoriesFutur ! It was a wonderful opportunity to share ideas about Minhinnick’s poetry with a group of great scholars!

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Great talk by @AgataHandley
'But what a place/to put a piano': #environmental #dystopia and nostalgic #memories in Robert #Minhinnick's Diary of the Last Man #postapocalyptic #poetry #EamonBourke #MOTF2019 #MemoriesOfTheFuture

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Thank you all for a great conference! It has been wonderful talking to so many of you and listening to all the fascinating talks and panels! #MOTF2019 #MemoriesOfTheFuture

[Dr Harriet Parry @HairyLyon]

Professor Anna Reading (supportively suggests) a manifesto for future memory studies. Include and embrace the richness that neurodiversity brings to our understanding of how the world is experienced and expressed. Inspiring and humane. @MemoriesFutur

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'If people understood about the #EU, this binary question wouldn't have been asked 3 years ago.' Anna Reading on the importance of #memorystudies, social and historical memory and the delusion of #Brexit. #MemoriesOfTheFuture #MOTF2019

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After a day of fascinating panels and talks, today started with a truly inspirational keynote by Anna Reading, talking about a future memory manifesto, neurodiversity, migration and our dependence on cleaners, both in the physical & digital world. #MOTF2019 #MemoriesOfTheFuture

[Laurel Plapp @LaurelPlapp]

Another gorgeous morning @MemoriesFutur ! Come by the @PeterLangOxford stand in Crush Hall

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discussion and dialogue for academic workers to situate their work within a wider political economy that includes the wider infrastructure of memory work. You are warmly invited to the keynote. 2/2) #MOTF2019 #MermoriesOfTheFuture #BoycottSenateHouse

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Anna Reading is including within her keynote tomorrow creative witnessing related to the particular struggle of cleaning staff and outsourcing. A representative from the Independent Workers Union agreed with the action to include a creative response that enables learning, (1/2)

[Prof Johan Siebers @doctaspes]

Maurizio Ferraris charting ways to the realisation of communism in the era of documedia capitalism @MemoriesFutur

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Professor Maurizio Ferraris, our second keynote speaker, giving an exciting talk on the Documedia Revolution and the realization of communism. #MermoriesOfTheFuture #MOTF2019 #newrealism #documentality

[Tasnim Qutait @TasnimQ]

Speaking tomorrow @MemoriesFutur on Arab futures and present dystopias. There is so much happening at this conference! Looking forward to listening, learning and discussing.

[Małgorzata Łukianow @MLukianow]

@MemoriesFutur School of Advanced Study #memorystudies @ucl @london

[Christian Schwarzenegger @Schwarz3n3gg3r]

@MemoriesFutur begins now. Will what lays ahead be worth remembering? Presenting @gabriele_balbi and my paper on past imaginations and projections about future lives with digital media technologies and how they were remembered later #CommunicationHistory #PastFutures #memory