Memory in the City: Wellspring

Cities are not only brick and mortar. In cities, cultures converge, interact, flourish, and sometimes clash violently. Cities hold the key to restoring and making whole the fractures and silences of our collective memory and identity, shaping how we see ourselves and, with it, our home and the world around us.

'Memory in the City’ celebrates the power of creative and historical writing and art to reimagine cities as places of memory, solidarities, narratives, and new perspectives.

Through an imaginative and interactive reading of André Dao's Anam, the author, and ANU scholars will take us on a journey through different urban landscapes – Melbourne, Hanoi, Paris, and Cambridge, to explore the long-lasting impact of migration on the cultural tapestry of our cities and the potential for new pasts and futures.

Panel Discussion

• Moderator, Ann-Sophie Levidis, Lecturer in French Studies, ANU 
• Andre Dao, Refugee Advocate and Novelist 
• Leslie Barnes, Associate Professor in French Studies, ANU
• Desmond Manderson, Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for Law Arts and Humanities, ANU 
• Sue Thompson, Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, ANU