The New York Metro American Studies Association’s annual one day conference, Memory, will be held November 5, 2011 at Parsons, the New School for Design. Morning sessions begin at 9:00 and include “Urban Memory,” “Traumatic Memory,” “Sites of Memory,” and “Official and Suppressed Memories.” The afternoon sessions, “The Materials of Memory” and “Mediated Memory” begin at 2:00. Registration is $20/$10 for students.