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Memory. From neurobiological underpinnings to reminiscences in culture

Espoo
25.9.2014 – 27.9.2014
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THE XXIII SIGNE AND ANE GYLLENBERG SYMPOSIUM

Memory; From neurobiological underpinnings to reminiscences in culture

Hanasaari Congress Center Hanasaari, Espoo, 25 – 27 September 2014

 

The Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation supports research in the relationship
between mind and body.

In line with the Foundation´s aims, the symposium Memory; From neurobiological
underpinnings to reminiscences in culture will start from the neurosciences and
end with the visual arts.

 

The invited lecturers are Susan Bassnett, Claudia Buss,

Johan Eriksson, Astrid Erll, Siri Hustvedt, Joseph LeDoux,

Steven Lynn, Elaine Reese, David Spiegel, Eric Vermetten,

Jay Winter and Eviatar Zerubavel.

 

Please visit our homepage for more information: www.gyllenbergs.fi/symposium

 

  PROGRAM

Thursday, September 25th

13.00–15.00

Press conference

18.00

Welcome reception at the Villa Gyllenberg Art Museum, Kuusisaarenpolku 11. Bus
departure from Hanasaari to Villa Gyllenberg 17.40. Return to Hanasaari after
reception.

Friday, September 26th

9.00–9.10

Opening words, Professor Per-Henrik Groop, Chairman of the Board of The
Gyllenberg Foundation

SESSION I How memory works
Chairman: Professor Hasse Karlsson

9.10–9.55

Reflections on the basic mechanisms of memory, professor Joseph LeDoux, New York
University, USA

9.55–10.40

Development of memory systems, professor Elaine Reese, University of Otago, New
Zealand

10.40–11.00

Pause

11.00–11.45

Reflections on false memories: Hypnosis, suggestion and culture, professor
Steven Jay Lynn, Binghamton University, USA

SESSION II Traumatic experiences and memory
Chairman: Professor Hasse Karlsson

11.45–12.30

Early life stress and brain development – implications for cognitive function
and mental health, Dr. Claudia Buss, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin,
Germany

12.30–13.40

Lunch

13.40–14.25

Reflections on traumatic experiences and PTSD, professor Eric Vermetten,
Military Mental Health-Research Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands

14.25–15.10

How the body remembers: Early life stress and later health outcomes among the
Finnish war children, professor Johan Eriksson, University of Helsinki, Finland

15.10–15.30

Pause

SESSION III Memory and identity
Chairman Henrik Enckell, MD

15.30–16.15

Memory and personal identity, professor David Spiegel, Stanford School of
Medicine, California, USA

16.15–17.00

Identity, memory and genealogy, professor Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University,
New Jersey, USA

17.00–18.30

Free time, sauna

19.30

Banquet dinner at Kalastajatorppa. Bus departure from Hanasaari to
Kalastajatorppa 19.00. Return to Hansasaari after bankquet dinner.

Saturday, September 27th 

SESSION IV Memory and history
Chairman: Henrik Enckell, MD

9.00–9.45

Memory in culture: The case of the Holocaust, professor Astrid Erll, Goethe
University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

9.45–10.30

History, memory and healing, professor Jay Winter, Yale University, New Haven
Connecticut, USA

10.30–11.15

History, memory and narrative structures, professor Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers
University, New Jersey, USA

11.15–11.35

Pause

SESSION V Memory and the arts
Chairman: Henrik Enckell, MD

11.35–12.20

Writing memory: Literature and remembering, professor Susan Bassnett, University
of Warwick, Warwick, England

12.20–13.05

Memory and the visual arts, Siri Hustvedt, author, New York, USA

13.05–13.15

Concluding remarks professor Per-Henrik Groop, chairman of the board of The
Gyllenberg Foundation

13.15

Lunch

Tiedustelut: Signe och Ane Gyllenbergs stiftelse
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