Jun
27
2018

Ruins, Remains, and Reconstructions – Sarajevo

Hotel Europe, Sarajevo

‘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


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