Past event
Seminar Series: Dr Craig Lamont on Memory Studies 'When age speaks, youth listens (sometimes)'
Dr Craig Lamont from the University of Glasgow was invited by the Institute for Cultural Identity and Memory Studies to talk about the centrality of memory studies to his work in different fields, specialisms, eras, and methodologies, with a focus on the transformative elements of collective into cultural memory. Whether working in literature, history, creative writing (life-writing), or collaborating with colleagues in psychology, brain health, and education, memory is the core component. His talk will draw from research in various Scottish case studies, including commemoration practices, Glasgow and slavery and Empire, Robert Burns, and Scottish literary figures and their works more generally.
Dr Craig Lamont is Lecturer in Scottish Studies at the University of Glasgow. Lamont has published widely in Scottish literature and history, with a focus on textual editing, print culture, and cultural memory. His monograph The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow was published by EUP in 2021. He is currently the founding co-director of the Memory Lab and the Scottish Catholic Studies Arts Lab at Glasgow. He also works in the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies and the Centre for Robert Burns Studies. Lamont occasionally writes short stories, and other pieces (mostly about memory).