‘Why Remember? Memory and Forgetting in Times of War and Its Aftermath’
‘Ruins, Remains, and Reconstructions’
Hotel Europe, Sarajevo
27th – 29th June 2018
Organizers:
Dr. Paul Lowe, University of the Arts, London, UK
Dr. Stephenie Young, Salem State University, USA
Professor Kenneth Morrison, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Admir Jugo, Ph.D. Candidate, Durham University, UK
Velma Saric, Post-Conflict Research Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Sponsored by London College of Communication, University of the Arts London; Salem State University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester UK; WARM Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
This academic conference is part of the WARM festival 2018.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
13:00 – 13:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr Stephenie Young, Dr Paul Lowe, and Rémy Ourdan
13:30 – 14:30
Keynote: Marina Gržinić and Adla Isanović
14:45 – 16:15
Opening Panel 1A
Female Voices, Gendered Memories
Chair & Opening Remarks: Mehnaz Afridi
Ivor Sokolić (London School of Economics and Political Science). Co-authors not presenting: Vjollca Krasniqi (University of Prishtina) and Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Skirts and Words: The Art of Acknowledgment, War Time Rape and Albanian Nationhood in Kosovo
JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz (Texas A&M University at Galveston) and Martha Galvan Mandujano (University of Oklahoma)
Gender and Genocide Memorialization in Guatemala
Jessica Smith (George Mason University, USA)
(Re)membering History: Photovoice as a Feminist Praxis of Narrative Evolution
16:30 – 18:00
Panel 2A
Artistic Interventions
Chair: Paul Lowe
Angus Carlyle (University of the Arts, London) and Rupert Cox (University of Manchester)
“The Sounds of Wind in the Sugar Canes, The Angry Roars and Sobs of the Dead”: Representing Okinawan War Memories
Manca Bajec (Royal College of Art, London)
Artistic Intervention as Symbolic Repair: A Look at the Form of ‘Memory Theatre’ as a Hypothetical Museum of Silenced Narratives
Frank Moller (Tampere Peace Research Institute, Finland)
The Truth of the Witness and the Truth of the Artist: Witnessing, Remembering, and Forgetting
Panel 2B
Aftermaths: Archives, Forensics, Evidence
Chair: Kenneth Morrison
Nevenka Tromp (University of Amsterdam)
Grieving in the Courtroom: Personal Objects as Evidence at the International Criminal Court for Former Yugoslavia
Henry Redwood (King’s College London)
Nora and The ICTR’s Archive
Karen Remmler (Mount Holyoke, USA)
What Remains? The Virtual Afterlives of the War Dead
Anna Katila (King’s College London)
Imagining the Reconstruction of Truth after Atrocity in the Balkans and Rwanda: Novels in Dialogue with Transitional Justice
18:45 – 19:30
Keynote at Historical Museum: Paul Coldwell
19:30
Opening of Reconciliations at the Historical Museum
Thursday, June 28, 2018
9:00 – 9:15
Daily Remarks
9:15 – 10:15
Keynote: James Gow
10:30 – 11:15
Art and Reconciliation Roundtable
Chair: Paul Lowe
Tiffany Fairey (UAL/PARC)
James Gow (King’s College London)
Rachel Kerr (King’s College London)
Henry Redwood (King’s College London)
Ivor Sokolić (LSE)
11:30 – 13:00
Panel 3A
Reconstructions of Memory after WWII and the Holocaust
Chair: Mehnaz Afridi
Sylwia Papier (Jagiellonian University)
Do We Need Monuments to Remember?
Emily Julia Roche (Brown University, USA)
Squeezing Blood from a Stone: Uniting Past and Future in the Architecture of Postwar Warsaw
Panel 3B
Images, Power, Memory
Chair: Paul Lowe
Victoria Ahrens (University of the Arts, London)
The Perfect Place
Yoav Galai (Central European University)
Illuminating the Native: Photography and the Imagined Hebrew Landscape of Palestine
Armen T. Marsoobian (Southern Connecticut State University)
The Presence of Absence: Accountability and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide
14:30 – 16:00
Panel 4A
Traumatic Remains
Chair: Stephenie Young
Mehnaz M. Afridi (Manhattan College)
The Wounded Caliph: Trauma and the Return of the Repressed
Punnya Rajendran (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
The Hand-Drawn Refugee: A Study of ‘Inoperative’ Images in Joe Sacco’s Journalism
Dani Nassif (The University of Munster, Germany)
The Form of Amnesia in Beirut in 2005: The Temporality of the Ruins and the Lapses of the Consumer Society
Sabine El Chamaa (Lebanese American University)
Rememories
Panel 4B
Contemporary Refugee Studies
Chair: Admir Jugo
Kubra Kalkandelen (ICO Research Centre, International Communities Organisation, London UK)
Revitalising the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Memory, Human Rights and the Hakawati
Kathryn Sederberg (Kalamazoo College, USA)
Memory, Empathy, History: Linking Refugee Experiences 1933, 1945, and Today
Daniel Gashler (SUNY Delhi)
Communists in the Mosque on Church Street: Remembering War and Yugoslavia in Utica, New York
16:15 – 17:15
Keynote: John Lennon
Friday, June 29, 2018
10:00 – 10:15
Daily Remarks
10:15 – 11:15
Keynote: Ziyah Gafić
11:30 – 13:00
Panel 5A
Memory, Space, Event: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Chair: Kenneth Morrison
David Pettigrew (Southern Connecticut State University)
Remembering Srebrenica
Lejla Gacanica (University of Mostar)
Places of (non) Belonging: Counter Monuments in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina
Johanna Paul (Bielefeld University)
‘White Armband Day: From Global Social Media Campaign to Annual Commemoration Day’
Panel 5B
Image Experiments
Chair: Scott A. Dennis
Pawel Starzec (University of Warsaw, Institute of Applied Social Sciences)
Souvenirs and Heritage: Towards Functional Analysis of New Iconographies
Lennaart van Oldenborgh(Goldsmiths, University of London)
Editing and Forgetting Moving Images: The Case of Mostar
Zoe Norridge (King’s College London)
Between Living and Seeing: Ruins, Remains and Memories of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda
14:30 – 15:45
Panel 6A
Memorialization and Confederate Monuments in the USA
Chair: Ellen Elias-Bursac
David K. Graham (Snow College, USA)
America’s Long Struggle with Confederate Memorialization
Veronica Czastkiewicz(International Burch University)
By the Light of the Moon: Confederate Monument Removal in the United States
Panel 6B
Reconstructing Memory: The Case of Belgrade
Chair: Paul Lowe
Gruia Badescu (HRA University of Oxford)
Ruins and Reconstructions in Belgrade: City-Makers, Memory, and the Architectural Uncanny
Nela Milic (University of the Arts, London)
Landscapes of Memory
16:00 – 17:00
Keynote: Tom Young
17:00 – 17:30
Closing Remarks
