Small Speculations

Season 2, Ep2: Recuperating Public Memory with the Girly Pops, Part 1


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In this episode of Small Speculations, the dream team of Sadie Ring, Payton Hans, and Hilde Ball discuss their chosen sites of public memory. They introduce their sites and why they picked them, what locations they are attributing to said memories, what they each find interesting about their sites, what they find challenging, and what their next steps moving forward will be.


More on the Girly Pop Memory Sites:

  • News related to Pokes Pride Center (including photo)
  • Lab School ("Prep School") Public Facebook Group
  • American Heritage Center Post on Merica Hall


Scholarly Sources:

  • Assmann, Aleida. "’Plunging into Nothingness’: The Politics of Cultural Memory." Moment to Monument: The Making and Unmaking of Cultural, edited by Ladina Bezzola Lambert and Andrea Ochsner, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008, pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839409626-003
  • Connerton, Paul. "Seven Types of Forgetting." Memory Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2008, pp. 59–71. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698007083889
  • Foss, Sonja K. “A Rhetorical Schema for the Evaluation of Visual Imagery.” Communication Studies, vol. 45, no. 3–4, Sept. 1994, pp. 213–224. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510979409368425
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Small SpeculationsBy Nancy Small