Inter and Transgenerational memory workshop.

After a short introduction with case studies this session will help participants to develop their own sense of the similarities and differences between intergenerational memory running in families, groups and organisations and transgenerational memory located in culture and bodies in deeper time. Participants will be invited to reflect on the way that “generation” signifies both familial relationships and peer groups across society.

We will test out the usefulness of these distinctions and explore how they might enrich or challenge our sense of self and how we go about solving problems individually and socially.

Nigel Williams is a Fellow in Psychology and Psychosocial studies at the University of the West of England and is author of Mapping Social Memory a Psychotherapeutic and Psycho-Social Approach, in the Palgrave Psychosocial series and has recently published a chapter on generational memory in Studying Generations, Bristol University Press edited by Helen Kinstone and Jennie Bristow.