The Influence of Memory on Forgetting

The Influence of Memory on Forgetting was the second in a series of interdisciplinary discussion forums devised and curated by Shona Illingworth in collaboration with cognitive neuro-psychologist and memory researcher Professor Martin A. Conway, in association with a range of host organisations to explore understanding and articulation of ideas about human memory across a range of different disciplines and social, political and cultural contexts. Participants included: Professor Martin A. Conway (now at City University); Dr Christopher Badcock (Reader in Sociology, LSE) ; Polly Carter (Education Co-ordinator, Photoworks); Dr Mohini Chandra (artist); Peter Cross (Visual Arts Officer, Arts Council England, London); Pauline De Souza (Director of the Diversity Arts Forum; Rebecca Drew (Deputy Director, Photoworks; Dr Ben Dyson, (Department of Psychology, University of Sussex; Melanie Friend (documentary photographer; Kate Forde (Curator of Exhibitions, Wellcome Trust; Elpida Hadzi Vaseleva (artist; Shona Illingworth (artist; Nic Kemp (artist)

Ruth Maclennan (artist); Professor Ole Gron (Ethno-Archaeologist, Honorary Research Professor, Institute of Archaeology, UCL); Jeremy Theophilus (curator, writer and Co-Director of A Fine Line arts consultancy; Susan Trangmar (artist); Professor Jennifer Rusted (Reader in Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex; Dorothy Sheridan (Director of the Mass Observation Archive, University of Sussex; Emilia Telese, (artist and Artists Networks Coordinator for a-n The Artists Information Company and Luciano Zubillaga (film maker).