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Book SynopsisThe nature of time has haunted humankind through the ages. Some conception of time has always entered into our ideas about mortality and immortality, and permanence and change, so that concepts of time are of fundamental importance in the study of religion, philosophy, literature, history, and mythology. On one aspect or another, the study of time cuts across all disciplines. The International Society for the Study of Time has as its goal the interdisciplinary and comparative study of time. This volume presents selected essays from the 12th triennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Time at Clare College, Cambridge. The essays are clustered around themes that pertain to the constructive and destructive nature of memory in representations and manipulations of time. The volume is divided into three sections Inscribing and Forgetting, Inventing, and Commemoration wherein the authors grapple with the nature of memory as a medium that reflects the passage of time.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Dedication List of Contributors Foreword (Michael Crawford, Jo Alyson Parker, Paul Harris) President’s Welcoming Remarks A Few Th oughts about Memory, Collectiveness and Aff ectivity (Remy Lestienne) Founder’s Address Reflections Upon An Evolving Mirror (J. T. Fraser) Response: Globalized Humanity, Memory, and Ecology (Paul Harris) Section I: Inscribing and Forgetting Preface to Section I Inscribing and Forgetting (Jo Alyson Parker) Chapter One The Body as a Medium of Memory (Christian Steineck) Response (Remy Lestienne) Chapter Two Body Memories and Doing Gender: Remembering the Past and Interpreting the Present in Order to Change the Future (Karen Davies) Response (Linda McKie) Chapter Th ree Coding of Temporal Order Information in Semantic Memory (Elke van der Meer, Frank Kruger, Dirk Strauch, Lars Kuchinike) Chapter Four Telling the Time of Memory Loss: Narrative and Dementia (Marlene P. Soulsby) Response (Alison Phinney) Chapter Five Georges Perec’s “Time Bombs”: about Lieux (Marie-Pascale Huglo) Chapter Six Seeking in Sumatra (Brian Aldiss) Section II: Inventing Preface to Section II Inventing (Paul Harris) Chapter Seven Furnishing a Memory Palace: Renaissance Mnemonic Practice and the Time of Memory (Mary Schmelzer) Chapter Eight The Radiance of Truth: Remembrance, Self-Evidence and Cinema (Heike Klippel) Chapter Nine Tones of Memory: Music and Time in the Prose of Yoel Hoff mann and W. G. Sebald (Michal Ben-Horin) Response (David Burrows) Chapter Ten Once a Communist, Always a Communist: How the Government Lost Track of Time in its Pursuit of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Katherine A. S. Sibley) Response (Dan Leab) Chapter Eleven Temporality, Intentionality, the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Causal Mechanisms of Memory in the Brain: Facets of One Ontological Enigma? (E. R. Douglas) Section III: Commemoration Preface to Section III Commemoration—Where Remembering and Forgetting Meet (Michael Crawford) Chapter Twelve Jump-starting Timeliness: Trauma, Temporality and the Redressive Community (Jeffrey Prager) Chapter Th irteen Black in Black: Time, Memory, and the African-American Identity (Ann Marie Bush) Chapter Fourteen Remembering Th e Future: On the Return of Memories in the Visual Field (Efrat Biberman) Responses (Shirley Sharon-Zisser) (Robert Belton) Chapter Fifteen Family Memory, Gratitude And Social Bonds (Carmen Leccardi) Chapter Sixteen Time to Meet: Meetings as Sites of Organizational Memory (Dawna Ballard and Luis Felipe Gómez) Index
