From layers to waves, memories overlap, pile-up, and even sink under all of this weight. In dialogue with these layers of overlap, the Memory Studies Association Fifth Annual Conference is titled “Convergences.” Taking place online from July 5-9, the city of Warsaw is its host and provides an environment that illuminates the program. How do the local practices, traditions, and studies compare to the global ones? And how does the intertwining of human and non-human, digital and analog affect our memories?

I am pleased to be participating in one of two conference panels dedicated to “Fractured Memory of the Colonial Encounter: Canada and the Indigenous Present.” The paper I will present is titled “Culinary Conflicts: Memory, Indigenous Restaurants, and Cultural Encounters.”

Find more about the conference here.