{"id":3007,"date":"2011-03-11T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:06:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:06:24","slug":"honors-institute-explores-intersections-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/03\/11\/honors-institute-explores-intersections-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors Institute explores “Intersections of Memory”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2011 Honors Institute featured a day-long symposium on the "Intersections of Memory." <\/p><\/div>\n

What is a memory?<\/em><\/p>\n

How does our brain create and store memories?<\/em><\/p>\n

Why should we remember anything?<\/em><\/p>\n

This year’s Honors Institute featured a day-long symposium on the “Intersections of Memory.” The 150-plus participants heard from a variety of presenters, including historians, psychologists, archivists and high school students.<\/p>\n

“The theme applies to such a wide range of people,” said junior history major Sarah Aisenbrey, one of the institute’s student assistants. “Everyone has memories, and those memories shape our lives.”<\/p>\n

Presented by the Wright State University Honors Program, the symposium included six breakout sessions. During one session, Oakwood High School students presented their documentary, Perspectives on Dayton: The Riots of the 1960s<\/em>. During another, Wright State psychology professors explained how we store memories and how we can lose them.<\/p>\n

“We always try to look at a topic from an interdisciplinary perspective,” said Susan Carrafiello, director of the honors program. “We hope that people leave thinking about memory in multiple ways.”<\/p>\n

“As a historian myself, I was drawn to the theme,” she said. “Memory is very important to our view of history.”<\/p>\n

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Wright State alumna and creative entrepreneur Monaqui Porter-Young gave the institute's luncheon address.<\/p><\/div>\n

Wright State alumna and creative entrepreneur Monaqui Porter-Young gave the institute’s luncheon address. She recounted some of her personal memoirs, telling the audience stories from her international travels and the founding of her organic tea company.<\/p>\n

Porter-Young also encouraged students to follow their dreams and not to feel bound by their major.<\/p>\n

“There is no script,” she said. “If something doesn’t exist, make it happen.”<\/p>\n

This annual event is part of a multi-track learning experience available to honors students. Classes are offered during Winter Quarter that complement the theme of the institute. For example, this year students could take a course on memoir literature or world wars in modern history. The symposium itself is designed to expose students to a scholarly conference setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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