This ppt gives a very brief introduction to memory studies, which relation between language and memory.

1. Introduction to
Memory Studies
MANSHI
(2067005)
M.Phil. ELT
Depar tment Of English And Moder n European
Languag es
Banasthali Vidyapith

2. Overview
• Introduction
• Domains of Memory
Studies
• Major Texts
• Types of Memory
• Language and Memory
• Sources

3. • Memory is a collection of independent systems in the brain that enable us to learn
and remember different types of information.
• Memory studies emerged as a discipline in the beginning of 21st century.
• Roots: Plato’s Theaetetus
• Reason of Genesis of Memory Studies
 “Memory Boom”- rise of internet, identity polities
 Culture of trauma and regret during World wars
 Decline of postwar modernist narratives of progressive improvement through an
ever-expanding welfare
 Decline of Utopian visions
Introduction

4. Psychology
Sociology
Anthropology
Historiography
Mnemohistory
Cultural
Studies
Literature
Language
Domains of Memory Studies

5. Major Texts
• Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture
by Alain Gowing (2005)
• Theories of Memory: A Reader (2007), compiled by Michael Rossington and Anne
Whitehead
• Memory: An Anthology (2008), edited by Harriet Harvey Wood and A. S. Byatt.
• Memory and Recollection - An Interdisciplinary Handbook (2010)16 edited by Christian
Gudehus, Ariane Eichenberg and Harald Welzer
• The Collective Memory Reader, published after several years of editorial work by Jeffrey K.
Olick, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi and Daniel Levy in 2011.
• Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook (2008),
edited by German literary scholars Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning.
• Cultural Memory and Early Civilization by Jan Assmann, and Cultural Memory and
Western Civilization by Aleida Assmann,

6. Individual
Memory
Collective
Memory
Multidirectional
Memory
Screen
Memory
Past Memory
Contemporary
Memory
Types of Memory

7. Language and Memory
• “Language is commonly regarded as a system of symbols that can represent people’s experiences in a conventionalized
and communicable format.” (Gerald Echterhoff)
• Language have profound effects on memory in its individual, collective, and cultural manifestations.
• Language effects on memory also reflect the cultural dimension of memory.
• “I decided to take refuge in language, and study the truth of things by means of it.” (Plato)
• Examination of language and memory relationship
• How language shapes memory ? (between-language approach)
• How memory effects language ? (within-language approach)

8. • “Provost Lecture - Jeffery Olick: What Is Memory Studies?” YouTube, uploaded by Stony Brook University, 23 July
2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdU_hYosb4o.
• “Memory Studies : Interdisciplinary Research Possibilities.” YouTube, uploaded by Department of English & MEL
University of Lucknow, 26 Aug. 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=YviN_VjTSBk&t=824s.
• Tamm, Marek. “Beyond History and Memory: New Perspectives in Memory Studies.” History Compass, vol. 11, no.
6, 2013, pp. 458–73. Crossref, doi:10.1111/hic3.12050.
• Blight, David W. “The Memory Boom: Why and Why Now?” Memory in Mind and Culture, edited by Pascal Boyer
and James V. Wertsch, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 238–50.
• Echterhoff, Gerald. “Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes.” Cultural Memory Studies: An
International and Interdisciplinary Handbook, edited by Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek,
2008, pp. 263–73.
• Olick, Jeffrey K. and et.al. “Introduction.” The Collective Memory Reader, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 3–10.
• Olick, Jeffrey K., and Joyce Robbins. “Social Memory Studies: From ‘Collective Memory’ to the Historical
Sociology of Mnemonic Practices.” Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 24, 1998, pp. 105–140. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/223476. Accessed 11 July 2021.
Sources

9. Any Query?
Thank You