[PHILOS-L] Dylan Trigg - Atmospheres of pastness: On childhood nostalgia (BGTMC Zoom Talk, February 5, 12:15 CET/19:15 Taiwan time)

[Christopher McCarroll]

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Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium, I am pleased to announce the talk "Atmospheres of pastness: On childhood nostalgia" by Dylan Trigg (Central European University), on Thursday February 5 (12:15 CET /19:15 Taiwan time).

Please join the meeting on Zoom (http://www.zoom.us) with the details below. Registration is not necessary.

link: https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/98859063721?pwd=6Xx6tmUpCSaSD4BkF4bPGhrxSuca5t.1

meeting ID: 988 5906 3721

password: 302355

Abstract

The aim of this talk is to consider the relationship between childhood and nostalgia. My overarching claim in this talk is that to understand the relationship between nostalgia and childhood, we have to understood how temporality of nostalgia is best grasped as an atmosphere. This claim is predicated on the conviction that an atmospheric reading of childhood can account for the diffused temporality of nostalgia together with how specific objects are generative of resonant meaning within this temporality. The talk unfolds in three stages. First, I consider what it means to conceive pastness in terms of an atmosphere, focusing especially on the role affects play in this conception. Second, I apply this framework to the case of childhood. With recourse to the work of Gaston Bachelard, I argue that nostalgia toward childhood is neither memory nor imagination, but instead a synthesis of each aspect grasped through reverie. Finally, I consider how childhood as a distinct atmospheric phenomenon is grasped from the perspective of adulthood.

This virtual colloquium series focuses on topics in the philosophy of memory and related philosophical areas but also reaches out to philosophically interested researchers in the cognitive sciences. The colloquium is organized by the Ruhr University Bochum (Markus Werning and Jonathan Najenson), the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at Université Grenoble Alpes (Kourken Michaelian and Denis Perrin), and the Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Ying-Tung Lin and Chris McCarroll).

This is the final talk of the current series. For details of the full program for this (and earlier) series, including titles and abstracts of all the talks, see the colloquium webpage: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/MemoryColloquium.html

We look forward to seeing you online.

On behalf of the organizers,

Chris

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