Cognition, Memory, Place, and Space

Schedule

9:00 Opening remarks

9:10 Lauren McGinn (University of St Andrews, UK): The sustainable activist flâneuse: A workshop on the democratization of time

10:00 Yuko Miyazaki (Showa University of Music, Japan): Walking, memory, and reflective subjectivity: Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker

10:50 Break

11:00 Marina Trakas (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) & Mariela Aguilera (CONICET/ Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina): Affective injustices and urban spaces

11:50 Ilona Mineikyte (Independent Researcher, Lithuania): Remembering Lithuania in South Africa: Place, memory and belonging among South African Jews of Litvak descent

12:40 Lunch

13:50 Aparna Raman (Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology, India): Remembering Pelathope: Wells, courtyards, and thinnais as scaffolds of intergenerational memory

14:40 Tânia Casimiro (University of Stirling, UK): The house remembers: Archaeology, material scaffolding, and the cognition of abandoned homes

15:30 Break

15:40 Anna Wiśnicka (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland): Archives of lost futures: Retrofuturism, reflective nostalgia, and the material memory of sci-fi atmospheres

16:30 John Sutton (University of Stirling, UK): 'Space alone is stable enough': Memory, home, and images suspended in the void

This activity is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the projects:

CEEC Ind Research Project 2024.10330.CEECIND: "An inquiry into memory biases, memory virtues, and mnemonic humility" 

UID/00310/2025, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/00310/2025)