The New York Metro American Studies Association has chosen the theme of “Memory” for our annual conference. Memory operates on a number of registers: What do we choose to remember? What do we chose to forget? Who is the “we” that is remembering or forgetting? How do public commemorations create, and transform our narratives of the past? What is the relationship between history, memory, and heritage? What is the role of “the public” is shaping the commemorative process, especially when trauma is involved? Are the contours of some events or memories untellable, unknowable? How does history gets used, even invented, as a narrative, to justify actions and to make history? How do personal memory and public memory merge and diverge?
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