Description: In what ways does the notion of viral memory help us understand how recollections spread through carriers, how they replicate, and how they spur social action? What literary, cultural, and material forms of memory are particularly contagious? And is the creation of collective memory a distinctly affective or embodied phenomenon?

Presider

Kyle Pivetti, Norwich U

Speakers

Vilashini Cooppan, U of California, Santa Cruz

Daniella Wurst, Columbia U

John Garrison, Grinnell C

Kara Keeling, U of Chicago

Lina Wilder, Connecticut C