Stories, beliefs, and values are critical to the formation of the family. This workshop explores how families transmit such intangible inheritances across generations, illuminating what emotions they evoke, exploring how and when they evolve, establishing what explains their resilience, and analysing why particular stories move from the personal to the public domain in autobiographies, biographies, popular histories, and heritage sites.

Charlene Lam will be delivering her talk “The Grief Gallery: Spotlighting What We Keep”