The project I’m currently working on is hosting a small exhibition for the Cambridge Festival. Please do come and chat with us!
Saturday 21 March 2026, 12 noon-4 pm
Faculty of English, GR06/07, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP
What makes memories vivid? What do vivid memories do for us? What changes about them over time? What can artists and writers tell us about them? Come and find out!
This event will introduce ideas and findings from the interdisciplinary project When Memories Come Alive. The project is a collaboration between memory scientists, literature scholars and historians. It brings together ideas about vividness and what it does for art and life.
In this exhibition, we’ll give illustrations of our work, including the questions we’re asking, the answers we’re finding, the examples from literature, art and history we’re inspired by, and the ideas in psychology we find fascinating. There will be opportunities for participation and discussion with project team members.
One of the paintings featured in the exhibition: Canaletto, The Bucentaur Returns to the Pier at the Doge’s Palace (1730), Wikimedia Commons.