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What Was I Thinking? Memory in the Arts & Sciences

This guide is intended to complement the What Was I Thinking? book display in Parks Library. The purpose of both the guide and the display is to show how the concept of memory is approached and examined in a variety of fields -- from literature and the arts to science and technology, from cultural history to psychology. The flipside of memory -- forgetting -- is also included here. Please enjoy this guide, and hopefully the physical display as well, and let us know if you have any comments or questions!

Memory: Selected Books

The Memory of Clothes
Trickbox of Memory
Excavating the Memory Palace
Calling Memory into Place
Memory in the Wild
The Proust Effect
Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory
Global Photographies
Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe
Generations and Collective Memory
(Re)writing and Remembering
Borges and Memory
Fragments of a Mortal Mind
Haints: American ghosts, millennial passions, and contemporary gothic fictions
Memory, Narrative, Identity
Memory in Medieval China: Text, Ritual, and Community
Second Chance
Traces of Aging
Augustine on Memory
Memory and the Self
Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory
Who Will Remember You?
Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation
On Autobiographical Memory
Remembering
Understanding Autobiographical Memory
Marking the Mind
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
Memory in Science for Society
Curating America's Painful Past
Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering
Forgetting: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
In Praise of Forgetting
Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image
Imagine, Observe, Remember
Bernadette Mayer: Memory