The Place of Memory
2023-2024
With equal emphasis on “place” and “memory,” the Robert Penn Warren Center invited the Vanderbilt community to create, research, and (re)think what it means to navigate remembering and forgetting in our post-COVID, algorithmic world.
- Where does memory live in the body and how is it communicated through our actions in the world?
- How do places—geographical, corporeal, conceptual—inform memory?
- How do memory and place(s)—individual, collective, or historical—influence and shape each other?
- How do we memorialize so as to preserve, do justice, heal, and move forward? And when is it necessary to forget?
Faculty Fellows
- Dominique Béhague (Medicine, Health & Society)
- Jefferson Cowie (History)
- Nicole Creanza (Biological Sciences)
- Tasha Rijke-Epstein (History)
- Carmine Grimaldi (Cinema & Media Arts)
- Kimberley D. McKinson (Anthropology)
Graduate Fellows
- Tandria Fireall (English)
- Kanak Kapur (English)
- Seulbin Lee (Religion)
- Melissa Luong (Human & Organizational Development)
- Melissa McCormick (Human & Organizational Development)
- Kelsey Rall (English)