Professor Anna Reading gives keynote speech "Assemblage Memory: Digital media, Generation and the Roma"

Professor Anna Reading, Head of the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries spoke on the cultural memory of atrocity in relation to the European Roma this week in Belgium. Her keynote which builds on CMCI's vibrant research strength in cultural memory was entitled Assemblage Memory: Digital media, Generation and the Roma addressed the ways in which legacy media have erased the memory of Roma's enslavement in Europe up until the mid nineteenth century.
Professor Reading, addressing an audience at the University of Ghent that included members of the public as well as faculty and research students, went on to show how digital technologies offer in contrast emergent possibilities for articulating the memory of the Porajmos or holocaust in ways that are regenerating Roma memory. The keynote was the start of two day postgraduate summer school organized by Mnemonics an international network of memory scholars.
Further information http://www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/cfp-ghent/.
The title of the conference was "Memory Unbound: Transcultural, Transgenerational, Transmedial, and Transdisciplinary Dynamics of Memory”.