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The Art of Memory day
Saturday 21 April, 13.00–17.00
Sackler Rooms
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Unlock the potential of your own memory in this session on the ancient ‘method of loci’ – also known as ‘the memory palace.’
This mnemonic device, said to have been invented in Greece in the 5th or 6th centuries BC, uses the mental visualisation of a place to organise and recall information more effectively. Mechanisms of memorisation were important in the ancient world where learning essential information by heart and delivering long speeches without notes were the norm. This method can be used to enhance and train your memory.
Speakers Gesine Manuwald, Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at UCL and Ed Cooke, a contemporary’ Grand master’ memory champion and co -founder of the online learning platform ‘Memrise’, will introduce the origins, and application, of this technique in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages with particular reference to well-known Roman orators and rhetoricians such as Cicero and Quintilian. They will use practical examples to teach how this method can still be used today to help anyone create their own ‘memory palace.’
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