NYMASA Annual Conference to Focus on Questions of Memory

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.