Memories for Life Colloquium: The Future of our Pasts
British Library Conference Centre Auditorium
London
12th December, 2006
Programme
| 08.30-09.30 | Registration & Coffee |
| 09.30 | Welcome Professor Wendy Hall University of Southampton |
| 09.40 | Keynote Speaker: Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire Remembering the Impossible |
| 10.00 | Panel I: Personal Memory: how important in our daily lives is the recollection (accurate or otherwise) of our past? John Tuck (Chair), Head of British Collections, British Library Professor Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield Anne Sebba, Independent Biographer Katherine Campbell, BBC (Producer WWII People's War) |
| 11.00 | Break |
| 11.20 | Panel II: The Technology of Memory: future directions: what new devices are waiting for us round the corner? Cliff Lynch (Chair), Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information Professor Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton Dr Andrew Fitzgibbon, Microsoft Professor Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham |
| 12.20 | Lunch + Poster Session |
| 13.30 | Keynote Speaker: Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Oxford Internet Institute Ubiquitous Data and the Madness of Crowds |
| 14.00 | Panel III: The Human Sciences: Psychology, Neuroscience: how much do we know about our memories, how we store and recall knowledge? Professor Robert Logie (Chair), University of Edinburgh Professor Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh Dr Susan Blackmore, Independent Researcher Professor Sue Gathercole, University of York |
| 15.00 | Break |
| 15.30 | Panel IV: Social, Ethical and Legal Issues: how will increased access to knowledge affect our society? Victor Keegan (Chair), The Guardian Dr Andrew Charlesworth, Bristol University Dr Robert Perks, Curator of Oral History, British Library Gareth Crossman, Policy Director, Liberty |
| 16.30 | Closing Remarks Professor Nigel Shadbolt University of Southampton |