This panel seeks to consider representations of amnesia, memory loss, dementia, and forgetting in late 20th- and 21st-century cultural productions, as well as representations of people, entities, and/or cultural phenomena that disrupt the possibility of remembering and representing the past.

The panel welcomes submissions relating to the conference theme of “Palimpsest: Memory and Oblivion” as well as those related more broadly to issues of memory, remembering, and loss. Such representations may focus on subjective experiences, or deal with issues of cultural memory, continuity, and tradition.

We welcome submissions from a variety of different critical and theoretical approaches, including but not limited to literary criticism, media and film studies, trauma and disability studies, affect theory, and psychoanalysis. We also encourage interdisciplinary approaches to media and literary studies from diverse fields including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy.

Some topics of particular interest include:

· Media and literary representations of the relationship between memory, subjectivity, and identity

· Use of formal techniques (e.g., film editing and cinematography, narrative techniques, syntax, etc.) to depict memory loss

· Representations of social fragmentation due to the loss of a sense of shared culture or history

· Erasures of identity among marginalized ethnic groups and communities

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