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IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 513: Remembering in Times of Crisis, I

Tuesday 2 July 2024, 09:00-10:30

Sponsor:Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies
Organiser:Michele Seah, School of Humanities, Creative Industries & Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Moderator/Chair:Ashley Castelino, Faculty of English Language & Literature / Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Paper 513-aConstructing Cultural Memory in Time of Crisis
(Language: English)
Ella Jando-Saul, Concordia University, Montréal
Index terms: Hagiography and Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 513-bPermissible Printing and Subversive Femininity: St Ursula in William Caxton's English Print Polychronicon
(Language: English)
Brenda Luies, School of English & Creative Arts, University of Galway
Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Religious Life and Women's Studies
Paper 513-c1492 and Jewish Memory: The Timelessness of Crisis
(Language: English)
Isaac Amon, Jewish Heritage Alliance
Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Language and Literature - Other
Paper 513-dMedieval Interjections in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage
(Language: English)
Lindsay Church, Department of English, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Index terms: Gender Studies and Language and Literature - Middle English
Abstract

In times of crisis, the role of memory in shaping societal responses and perceptions of the past becomes particularly pronounced. This series of sessions seeks to consider the ways in which individuals and societies use memory to navigate and make sense of times of upheaval and uncertainty.