Dr. Avishek Parui,  IIT Madras gave an online talk on Research in Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary possibilities on 27 October as part of the Human Sciences Research Group (HSRG) Seminar Series.

The talk defined and discussed the discipline of memory studies in terms of its interdisciplinary possibilities. Designed to deliver an introduction to this domain, in this talk Dr. Parui examined the entanglement of memory and forgetting, and how that connects to methods in literary and cultural studies. The talk drew theories from cognitive psychology and theory of mind and mapped the same to a study of representations in fiction and other textual forms.

Avishek Parui (Ph.D, Durham UK) is Assistant Professor in English and Memory Studies at IIT Madras, and Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is the author of Postmodern Literatures (Orient Blackswan, 2018) and Culture and the Literary: Matter, Metaphor, Memory (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming). He is the founding chairperson of the Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) and principal investigator in the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras.