The Center for Memory Studies of the Department of Communication promotes San Marino Lectures on Memory, annual event who sees teachers of international fame deal with the theme of memory in its various applications: from Story to the psychology, From literature at , from movies neuroscience.
“The recent development of memory studies has opened up the opportunity in Europe, and beyond, to propose a reflection on whether and how to conserve the stories and traces of the memory of migrations.
La lecture it intends to ask itself some questions of methodology related to the possible narration, in a particularly visual and performative way, of the memory of historical Italian emigrations, also through the analysis of museum experiences linked to this now very widespread phenomenon. It also intends to try to understand if and how these narratives can intersect with the actuality of the new emigrations in progress and, essentially, of the new immigrations…”
The event, sponsored by State Secretariat for Education and Culture, is organized by the Department of Human Sciences of the University of San Marino, which includes the Center for Studies on Memory, in collaboration with the Department of History, Culture and History of San Marino and the Center for Studies on Emigration - Museum of Emigrant.
Publications
2013
Play memory
Book
Can you fix a low memory by playing games? During the XNUMXth century, many took up the challenge. From board games invented by Mark Twain to video installations by contemporary artists, the use of the playful device has characterized several episodes in the path of modern mnemonic techniques, transforming traditional memory systems, made up of images, into three-dimensional immersive devices.
Paul Castle
2013
Memory for dates, dates for memory
Book
Discovering a collection of works of art that consciously represent a calendar day, revealing it in the image with visible or implied clues; indicating it in the title as a structural element of the work; playing – sometimes – with real time.
Antonella Sbrilli
2013
It's a game
Book
The game can take many forms in daily life, the most unexpected. Disguised under the ambiguous mask of play, joke, irony, they know how to hide tensions, mystifications, insecurities capable of scleroticizing themselves in an apparently playful scheme of forced behavior and fixed and repetitive scripts whose origin has been forgotten.
Marina Mizzau
2013
Mnemonics and puzzles
Book
The strangest images and the most imaginative associations have populated mnemonics since ancient times, producing mysterious verb-visual agglomerations whose interpretation is often a gamble, in the absence of a uniform and shared code.
Umberto Eco
2014
Useful for ispurpose?
Book
Faced with the immense archive of data and news that overwhelms us every day, the ancient role of literature seems to pale: no novel can match the complexity of contemporary chronicles, with their live updates, while millions of plots and extraordinary stories are just a click away. In a society of retromaniacs, even the goal of "making memory" seems superfluous. The "Unidentified Narrative Objects" that appear in bookstores today try to be up to this challenge...
Wu Ming 2
2014
Urban memories
Book
“I would like to talk about what happens to music, folklore, the city, modernity, memory. I start from music because all the work I've done in recent years stems from an intuition and a practice of Gianni Bosio who identified in popular music (distinct from popular music) a place of memory of non-hegemonic classes, and as such a source essential for reconstructing a history of the popular world from within.” (Alessandro Portelli)
Alexander Portelli
"Lectures on Memory" over the years
2017
The memory of migrations between narratives and musealisation
Lectio Magistralis of Viviana Gravano, Historian and Curator of Contemporary Art
2016
SUBJECTIVITY AND NARRATIVE. Oral memory, letters, autobiographies.
Lectio Magistralis of Alexander Portelli
Thursday 7 April 2016 – from 15.00 to 17.00
Palazzo Graziani – P.le Lo Stradone, 12 – San Marino
Press Review
2013
Italian memories between fiction and history
Friday June 28 2013
9.30 hours
Opening of the proceedings and greetings from the authorities
presides Patricia Viola
9.45 hours
Presentation Necklace Lectures on Memory
San Marino University Press – Guaraldi Publisher
I come from afar, I don't go away.
Migrant music and stories in Italy
Alessandro Portelli – University of Rome Wisdom
'Use for a purpose'.
The function of the historical novel
in a society of retromaniacs
Wu Ming 2/writer
Discussing
Daniel Salerno/University of Bologna, TRAME Center
2012
Memory games
Friday July 13 2012
Chaired Patricia Viola
09.30 Opening of works
Greetings from the authorities
Memory landscapes
video of Massimo Salvucci
Antonella Sbrilli University of Rome 'Sapienza'
The game of narrated days. A memory system?
Marina Mizzau University of Bologna
"It's a game"
Paolo Castelli University of Rome 'Sapienza'
Playful declinations of nineteenth-century mnemonic methods
Walter Tega University of Bologna
Memory jugglers
Umberto Eco Higher School of Humanities, University of Bologna
The memory of the goose
Unscheduled guest Dario Fo
2011
Memory and History
Church of the Ancient Monastery of Santa Chiara
Speakers:
Umberto Eco, Robert Damien, Walter Tega
2010
Remembering and forgetting: the two functions of culture
The first lesson of the Memory Studies Center will be held by Umberto Eco