Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Memory sits at the core of both literature and lives. Yet forgetting is also a part of our brains’ daily working, bringing its own human truths and a necessary path for moving forward. Lewis Hyde’s new _A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past_, provides inspiration for a deep-dive discussion of memory’s other side, with this august panel of writers and neuroscientists: poets Jane Hirshfield and Margaret Gibson, author Lewis Hyde, and UCSF neuroscientists Aimee Kao, Bruce Miller, and Virginia Sturm.
Co-hosted by Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival
Aimee Kao, MD, PhD, is a UCSF Associate Professor of Neurology. She directs the UCSF Tau Consortium Human Fibroblast and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Bank and leads the UCSF Alzheimer Disease Research Center Neurodegenerative Disease Biomarker Core.
Memory sits at the core of both literature and lives. Yet forgetting is also a part of our brains’ daily working, bringing its own human truths and a necessary path for moving forward. Lewis Hyde’s new _A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past_, provides inspiration for a deep-dive discussion of memory’s other side, with this august panel of writers and neuroscientists: poets Jane Hirshfield and Margaret Gibson, author Lewis Hyde, and UCSF neuroscientists Aimee Kao, Bruce Miller, and Virginia Sturm.
Co-hosted by Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival
Aimee Kao, MD, PhD, is a UCSF Associate Professor of Neurology. She directs the UCSF Tau Consortium Human Fibroblast and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Bank and leads the UCSF Alzheimer Disease Research Center Neurodegenerative Disease Biomarker Core.
