Programme
(all times in BST)
Monday 28 June 2021
9.30-9.45
Welcome: Tomás Irish and Simon John (Conflict, Reconstruction and Memory Research Group, Swansea University), and Professor Elwen Evans QC (Executive Dean PVC, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Swansea University)
9.45-11.45
Plenary Session 1: Creating and Campaigning
Chair: Tomás Irish
Abu-Bakr Madden al Shabazz (Historian, Psychotherapist and Education Consultant)
Ellie Grigsby (Historian and campaigner for the monument to facially-disfigured WW1 soldiers, installed in Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent [UK], 2019).
Sokari Douglas Camp, CBE (Contemporary artist and sculptor)
Tessa Boase (Historian and campaigner for the creation of a monument to Royal Society for the Protection of Birds founder Emily Williamson in Didsbury, Manchester [UK])
11.45-12.00
Break
12.00-13.15
Session 1: New Approaches to Monuments and Memorialisation: Democratising and Digitising
Chair: Sarah May (Swansea University)
Tanja Schult (Stockholm University, Sweden), ‘Beyond Monument Protest: Monuments in Democracies’
Yiğit İnan and Ahenk Yılmaz (Yaşar University, Turkey), ‘Monument in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Atatürk, His Mother and Women’s Rights in Locative Media’
Jeremiah Garsha (University of Cambridge, UK), ‘Digital Decolonisation: Turning Monuments into Memorials’
14.45-16.00
Session 2A: Critiquing Monuments in a National Context
Chair: Hilary Orange (Swansea University)
Tracy Adams (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Yinon Guttel-Klein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), ‘Israeli Culture of De-Commemoration: Make it until you Break it’
Neha Dewan (Programme Officer, UNESCO Cluster Office for Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka), ‘Conflict Memorialisation: Contested identities and nation-building in the Indian subcontinent’
Frederick W. Gooding, Jr (Texas Christian University, USA), ‘Black Statues: Where We Stand on Race within the US Capital Space’
Session 2B: Comparative Approaches to Memorials and Monuments
Chair: Stefan Goebel (University of Kent, UK)
Jennifer Howes (Independent Scholar) and Jayanta Sengupta (Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India), ‘Twin statues of Robert Clive and Imperial Narratives in London and Kolkata’
Mike Horswell (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), ‘“Crusading” Knights in Jerusalem: Obliquely Remembering Allenby, Saladin & “Richard”’
Anna Calori (University of Jena, Germany) and Carlo Andrea Tassinari (University of Palermo, Italy), ‘Public memory and beyond. Scars and subversions of State-sanctioned monumentalization(s)’
13.15-14.00
Lunch break
14.00-14.45
Discussion and Reflection
16.00-16.15
Break
16.15-17.30
Session 3A: Colonial Debates: Memories of Slavery and Empire
Chair: Tom Allbeson (Cardiff University, UK)
O’Neil Joseph (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad),
‘#Noloyalslaves: Monuments and Movements in Trinidad and Tobago’
Eva Branscome (University College London, UK), ‘Colston’s Travels, OR Should We Talk About Statues’
Kimberley Weir (University of Nottingham, UK), ‘The Quezon Memorial Shrine: A monument to the “Political Progress of the Philippines”’
Session 3B: Contested Histories in Academic Spaces
Chair: Tomás Irish
Laura A. Macaluso (Independent Scholar), ‘Breaking Bad Glass: Yale University Reluctantly Changes Course’
Travis C. Perusich (University of Arkansas, USA), ‘A Legacy Divided: J. William Fulbright in the Wake of Contemporary Iconoclasm’
Laura Matysek Wood (Tarrant County College Northwest, Fort Worth Texas, USA), ‘Building a War Memorial During America’s Longest War: Capturing History and Creating a Teaching Tool’
17.30-17.45
Break
17.45-19.00
Plenary Session 2: Keynote paper
Stefan Goebel (University of Kent), ‘Intersecting memories: memorialising two world wars’
Chair: Rebecca Clifford (Swansea University)
Tuesday 29 June 2021
9.30-10.45
Session 4: Contested Histories, Contested Futures: What Happens Next?
Chair: Louise Miskell (Swansea University)
Claire Baxter (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Contextualising Exiled Heritage: Are Statue Parks A Solution for Contested Heritage?’
Rebecka Katz Thor (Södertörn University, Sweden), ‘Remember us To Life - Vulnerable Memory in a Prospective Monument, Memorial and Museum’
Stephen Mullen (University of Glasgow, UK), ‘Iconoclastic Campaigns and the International Response: should Henry Dundas and James Watt fall?’
10.45-11.00
Break
11.00-12.15
Session 5A: War Memorials and their Communities
Chair: Martin Johnes (Swansea University)
Maria Grazia D’Amelio (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) and Lorenzo Grieco (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy/University of Kent, UK), ‘Overwriting History: On Architecture and Political Propaganda in Twentieth-Century Italy’
Gethin Matthews (Swansea University), ‘The Changing Monumental Landscape of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, 1919–1925’
Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka, Croatia), ‘Dignity for the Defeated: Memorializing Serb Civilian Victims in Croatia’
Session 5B: Forging Consensus: the Creation, Destruction and Subversion of Monuments since 1945
Chair: Alexandra Paulin-Booth (Free
University of Berlin, Germany)
Christoph Laucht (Swansea University), ‘Rising from Ruins: Kiel, Coventry and the Start of German-British Reconciliation after the Second World War’
Kata Benedek (Free University of Berlin, Germany), ‘Quantity besides Quality? The Hungarian statue-craze (2010-2020)’
Erdem Üngür (Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey), ‘Monument Wars in the “New Turkey”: An Analysis of De/Construction of Monuments in Turkey after 2016 Coup Attempt’
12.15-13.00
Lunch
13.00-13.45
Discussion and Reflection
13.45-15.00
Session 6A: Religion and Identities in Memorial Cultures
Chair: Sarah Crook (Swansea University)
Puja Basu (University of Delhi, India), ‘Monuments and the Matter of Inheritance: Dalit Guides of Mahabalipuram and the Question of Marginalization (1960-1964)’
Thorsten Kruse (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany), ‘Religious sites and politics in areas of conflict – the case of Cyprus’
Stephen W. Minnema (Viterbo University, La Cross, WI, USA), ‘On the Courthouse Lawn and Under the Church Spire: An Assessment of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Montgomery, AL) regarding its treatment of Christian Complicity in the Atrocity of Lynching’
Session 6B: Contested Meanings: Reimagining Monuments
Chair: Christoph Laucht (Swansea University)
Beata Piecha-van Schagen (Coal Mining Museum, Zabrze, Poland), ‘State iconoclasm vs lieux de memoire. The monument of communistic labour hero redefined’
Alice Procter (Independent Scholar), ‘Shadows, Reflections, Wrecks: Reimagining a statue of Captain Cook’
Willem Bekers (Ghent University, Belgium), ‘Forging Rifles into Trowels: Multiple Nationalisms in Belgian World War I memorials’
15.00-15.15
Break
15.15-16.30
Session 7A: Theoretical Approaches to Contemporary Debates
Chair: Berklee Baum (University of Oxford, UK)
Julie Deschepper (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Italy), ‘Contesting Public Monuments on a Global Scale. A Reflection on Similarities through Space and Time’
Ashley V. Reichelmann (Virginia Tech, USA), ‘Making Meaning of Confederate Statues: The Role of Education and Understandings of the Civil War’
Samantha Cutrara (York University, Canada), ‘The Zombies in the Park: A theoretical exploration on the (undead) monuments that surround us’
Session 7B: Monuments and the Pre-Modern: Destroying, Creating, Reinterpreting
Chair: Adam Mosley (Swansea University)
Yvon Eikenaar (Leuven University, Belgium), ‘The role of youth during the iconoclasm of Antwerp in 1566’
Justin Schwartz (King's College London, UK), ‘A ‘Pile of Images’ of Ancient Standing: the Demolition of Cheapside Cross, 1641-43’
Kieren Johns (Warwick University, UK), ‘“Cette libyenneté en devenir”: Septimius Severus, Libyan Identity, and the Contested History of a 20th Century Statue’
16.30-16.45
Break
16.45-18.00
Session 8: Women, Gender and Sexuality: Agency and Representation in Monumental Culture
Chair: Marc Calvini-Lefebvre (University of Aix Marseille, France)
David Anderson (Swansea University), ‘Enshrining the Lost Cause: The Ladies’ Memorial Association of Athens, Georgia, and the Confederate monument movement’
GVGK Tang (Independent Scholar), ‘Commemoration as Colonial Violence: Wokewashing & Decolonizing the Stonewall National Monument’
Tijana Okić (Independent Scholar), ‘When the State is the agent of de-commemoration: the case of Radojka Lakić memorial park in Sarajevo’
18.00
Closing Remarks