21 June 2022

10.30am Welcome

10.45am Introduction to the Colloquium

11.00am Session 1

Tanja Schult (Stockholm University), The Legacy of the ‘Counter-Monument’

Justyna Balisz-Schmelz (University of Warsaw), Creation versus Transformation. Countermonument as an Artistic Endeavour and Bottom-up Initiative

Hella Wiedmer-Newman (Zurich), Smirna Kulenović's Eco-Mnemonic Art: Toward a Sustainable Memorial Practice

12.45pm Lunch

01.30pm Session 2

Melanie Hussinger (University of the Bundeswehr, Hamburg), The Last Address (Poslednij Adres) in Russia as a (Decentralised) Countermonument

Anastasia V. Mitrofanova (Russian Academy of Sciences, FNISTs, Perm) and Svetlana V. Riazanova (Russian Academy of Sciences, PFITs, Perm), Art Festival as a Countermonument: the Case of ‘Pilorama’ (Sawmill)

02.30pm Session 3

Paul Leworthy (Goethe University, Frankfurt), From ‘Counter-Monuments’ to ‘Counter-Museum-Exhibitions’: On the Influence of the ‘Counter-Monument’ and the Usefulness of the Concept outwith Memorial Culture

Ilya Sulzhytski (University of Greifswald), Counter-memorials vs Counter-memorial Experience: Tripadvisor Reviews on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin

03.30pm Tea break

04.00pm Session 4

Elias Mendel (Artist, London), Threads, Angels and Memory: a Discussion and Demonstration of Creative Interventions in a Family Archive

Gail Ritchie (Queen’s University, Belfast) The (Im)material Monument

05.00pm Session 5

Claire Ross (University of Reading), Yadé Kara’s Literary Counter-monumentalism

Cian Pappenheim (University of Glasgow), Redt tsu zey vi tsu a lebediker: A Literary Case for Jewish Memorial Books as Early Examples of Counter-Monuments

Katya Krylova (University of Aberdeen), The Reception of Countermonuments in Contemporary Austrian Literature: Robert Schindel’s Der Kalte (2013) and Hanna Sukare’s Schwedenreiter (2018)

22 June 2022

10.00am Session 6

Caterina Preda (University of Bucharest), ‘Performative Monuments Events’ as Counter-Monuments in Post-Socialist South-Eastern Europe

Kata Bohus (University of Tromso), Only Heroes and Victims? Memory and Countermemory of WWII in Central Europe Today

11.00am Session 7

Manuela Badilla (University of Valparaiso), Counter-Monumental Movement in Constituent Chile: An Ephemeral, Creative and Joyful Negotiation of the Difficult National Past
Emanuela Buscemi (University of Monterrey), The Antimonumenta ‘Vivas Nos Queremos’: Social Movements and Countermemories in Mexico City

12.00noon Lunch

01.00pm Session 8

Jenny Woodley (Nottingham Trent University), The Countermonument as a Space for Mourning: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Ramze Endut (National University of Malaysia), Place as a Countermonument: The Case for the Penan Community in Malaysia

Sena Kaplan (Middle East Technical University), Enforced Disappearances Database as a Virtual Counter Monument

02.45pm Session 9

Tafadzwa Gwini (University of Zimbabwe), Countermonuments as Alternative to Removal with Specific Reference to David Livingston’s Statue at Mosi-oa-Tunya and Rhodes’ Grave at Njelele Shrine in Zimbabwe.

Ayesha Perveen (Virtual University of Pakistan), From Colonial Monuments to Postcolonial Countermonuments: Sculptures in Lahore

Annie Webster (University of London), Military and Monumental Encounters: Images of Fallen Statues in post-2003 Baghdad

04.30pm Tea Break

05.00pm Concluding open discussion