cultural politics of memory - preliminary panel schedule

Day 1: Wednesday 14 MayCultural Politics of Memory

Parallel Sessions 1413:30 15:30

Museums, Memorials, Ideology (Session 1 Room 0.31)Curating Cultural Memory: Primo Levi at the Jewish Museum of RomeJohn Champagne The Bernard College, Penn State Erie, USA

Memory and Representation in the Poetics and Politics of Brazilian and Portuguese MuseumsLilia Abadia University of Nottingham / CAPES Foundation Brazil

Curating Cultural Memory in African American MuseumsGwennaelle Cariou Paris Diderot University, France

Film and Media I (Session 2 Room 0.36)Witness to Remember: The Syrian Conflict and the Construction of Memory on YouTubeRik Smit University of Groningen, Netherlands

Communicative Memory of Undocumented Migration: ReCirculation of News Images InYouTubeKarina Horsti University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

What do We Fear? Trauma, Past and the Monster: Perspectives on the Works of Murnau andGuillermo del ToroMaria Gil Poisa Texas AM University, USA

Forget and Forgive? Amnesiac Veterans in Film Noir and Postwar ReadjustmentKulraj Phullar Kings College London

Writing Memory I (Session 3 Room 0.45)Critical Memory Cultures in Eastern and Central European Literatures: Retrievals,Translations, Imaginary RestitutionDorota Kolodziejczyk Wroclaw University, Poland

The Politics of Translation and the Politics of MemoryTeresa CanedaCabrera University of Vigo, Spain

False Memoir SyndromeSue Vice University of Sheffield

The Broken Memory of the Iranian Nation State Building ArchitectsHawzhen Rashadaddin Ahmed - University of Leicester

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Tracing Traumatic Transpacific Memories: The Experimental Art of Jinme YoonKirsten Emiko McAllister Simon Fraser University, Canada

Your Story Belongs to the Story of CityAnders HogHansen Malmo University, Sweden

Memory, Exclusion and InclusionPatrick Imbert University of Ottawa, Canada

Wasnt it golden?: Domophilia and the Constructions of Home in Narratives of the 1947India/Pakistan PartitionAnindya Raychaudhuri University of St Andrews

Migration and Displacement (Session 4 Room 2.03)

Hide and Seek: Family Histories and Nazi GermanyChristine Lohmeier University of Munich, Germany

Telling Stories Of and From the Archive: Family History, Desire and IdentityAnneMarie Caroline Kramer University of Nottingham

Archive, Family History and Memoir (Session 5 Room 0.31)

The Bones in Banda: Vision, Art, and Memory in MalukuJulie Berger Hochstrasser University of Iowa, USA

Unheard Voices Lappish People in Matti Saanio's Reportage during and after PostWarReconstructionMervi Autti University of Lapland, Finland

(Re)Mediation of Socialist Monuments in Czech Contemporary ArtAndrea Pruchova Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Memory and Visual Culture I (Session 6 Room 0.36)



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Day 1: Wednesday 14 May

Race, History, Memory and Revision in James Baldwin's Blues for Mister CharlieMeredith MalburneWade Elon University, USA

Recall and ResponseAdeola Dewis Cardiff University

The Penitent King: Late Shakespeare and the Dramatic Language of Memory in The WintersTaleSophie Battell Cardiff University

Enacted Memory (Session 7 Room 0.45)

Trauma, Cultural Heritage and Slave TourismOlivette Otele Bath Spa University

Religion as a Chain of Memories: A Political Reinterpretation of Christianity in theContemporary HungaryAnna Vancso Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Lovespoons and their Cultural Qualities: On Becoming a Symbol of WelshnessJakob Dittmar Malmo University, Sweden

Cultural Heritage (Session 9 Room 2.48)

Remembering Woody Allen and Roman Polanski: Gender, Violence and Memorialisation inPopular CultureTanya Serisier Queens University Belfast

Exploring Women ExCombatants' Unusual ArchivesYoana Fernanda Nieto Valdiviesco University of Hull

History and (Hi)Story: A Collection of Memories about Food and Identity of Minorities in the21st CenturyRossella Sorte Manchester Metropolitan University

Gendered Memory I (Session 8 Room 2.03)

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Day 2: Thursday 15 MayCultural Politics of Memory


Memory and Visual Culture II (Session 10 Room 0.31)Recollecting Kyffin WilliamsDafis, Douglas Iwan Dafis Aberystwyth University

Rereading the Portrait and the Archive's Social MemoryKalli Paakspuu York University

Digital Repatriation of Photographs and Generational Memory WorkRandi Marselis University of Southern Denmark

Film and Media II (Session 11 Room 0.36)Postmemory as Transition: Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and Jordan'sMichael Collins (1996)Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou University of Salford and University College Dublin

Shaping Collective Visual Memory by Rewriting Propaganda: The Repetitive Use of the LastFilm Shots of Adolf Hitler in Documentary FilmsAnna Luise Kiss University of Film and Television 'Konrad Wolf', Germany

Memory over the Dislocation: How the Audiences of the Propagandist Television Serials inthe Socialist Czechoslovakia Remember Their MeaningMaking Activity Stimulated by theSerialsIrena Reifova Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Media and Memory: Cardiff Docklands 19191939Mari Lowe Cardiff University

Topographies of Memory (Session 12 Room 0.45)Blood and Soil: Cultural Memory and Rhetoric of RootednessKuisma Korhonen University of Oulu, Finland

Mixed MemoriesBethan Harries University of Manchester

Politics of Remembrance and the Transition of Public Spaces: Vienna 19952015Peter Pirker University of Vienna, Austria

From Ethnicity to Sacred Land: Public Memory and Identity in South Africa's Freedom ParkPieter Botha University of South Africa

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Memory and Affect (Session 13 Room 2.03)Elastic Commemoration: On Design and Public Participation in the PastGuy Konigstein

Queer Memorial Activism at Uckermark: From Allo to AllyIdentificationSusanne Luhmann University of Alberta, Canada

Affective Flows, Sensible Becomings: Synaesthetic Encounters with Holocaust MemorialsDorota Golanska University of Lodz, Poland

Writing Memory II (Session 14 Room 2.48)Recalling, Reframing and Recreating Memory: Polish Literature as a Medium of CulturalMemoryJustyna Tabaszewska Jagiellonian University, Poland

Fairytales of our Past: Shifting Narrative Hegemonies of the Spanish Civil WarAmber Shields University of St Andrews

Salvation through Memory: Sloan Wilsons The Man in the Gray Flannel Suits Critique of USGovernments Politics of Silencing World War II MemoriesRuben Cenamor University of Barcelona, Spain

Cultural Memory and the Art of Collecting in Orhan Pamuk's Museum of InnocenceElvan Julia Sayarer University of Montreal, Canada

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Archeology, History, Sites of Memory (Session 15 Room 0.31)Remembering Aspects of the Icelandic Vernacular Architecture Through Archaeology of theRecentSandra Coullenot University Jean Monnet, SaintEtienne, France

Amnesia of Indian Historiography: Years of Emergency RuleGemma Scott Keele University

Jamal Mahjoub's NubiaJacqueline Jondot University of Toulouse le Mirail, France

Aboriginal Memoirs and Memory: A Stolen Generations NarrativeJustine Seran University of Edinburgh

Gendered Memory II (Session 16 Room 0.36)The Performance of Gendered MemoryShereen Abouelnaga Cairo University, Egypt

Komm, Frau (Come, Woman)' Polish Controversial Sculpture as a Challenge for PublicNarrative of the Second World War and a Role of the Red Army in 'Liberation' of PolishWomenDominika Czarnecka Torun, Poland

Disinherited Daughters: Polish PostWar Female Literature and MemoryDaria Iwona Gosek Jagiellonian University, Poland

Eleanor Roosevelt's Problematic Remembrance as First Lady: From Maryfigure to (Mock)SubversiveSarah Polak Leiden University, Netherlands

Writing Memory III (Session 17 Room 0.45)Archaeology and Repetition as Strategies for the Literary Reconfiguration of NationalFounding MythsAxel Goodbody University of Bath

The Place of Victimhood in Sofi Oksanen's Novel PurgeDavid Clarke University of Bath

Flawed Specters and Emancipated SpectatorsRoger Ravet University of Aberdeen

FortDa Games: Remembering and Forgetting Origins in Zadie Smith's Novel White TeethBeatriz Perez Zapata University of Zaragoza, Spain

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Day 2: Thursday 15 May

Post War Europe (Session 18 Room 2.03)The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting: Contested Memories in ClujNapoca (Romania)Jakab Albert Zsolt Romania

'Your Beautiful Motherland East Prussia will be Restored to You': Narratives of Flight andExpulsion and the Politics of Memory in the Federal Republic of Germany, 19892010Arddun Hedydd Arwyn Aberystwyth University

Memory, Reconstruction and Interpretation of the Franco Regime: Carlton J.H. Hayes andEmmet John Hughes Distinctive Perceptions and ThoughtsMaria Luz ArroyoVazquez National University of Distance Education, Spain

Less Than One Fifth of People in the Former Soviet Republics Recall the Collapse of the SovietUnion: What Stands Behind the Fact?Norman Brown University of Alberta, Canada

Trauma and Memory (Session 19 Room 2.48)Languages of Collective and Personal Memory: The Reconstruction of Vladek Spiegelman'sMemoir in MAUSMartin UrdialesShaw University of Vigo, Spain

Representations of Identity and Trauma in an Oppressed Ethnic Community: ContemporaryDersimi Cultural Productions at the Crossroads of Politics, Market, and MemoryUlker Sozen Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Trauma, Memory, and Alternative FuturesJennifer Yusin Drexel University, USA

Fictional Memories and the Cultural Politics of Remembrance: The Case of E.L. Doctorow'sThe Book of DanielMaria Ferrandez San Miguel University of Zaragoza, Spain

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Day 3: Friday 16 MayCultural Politics of Memory


City Scapes and Amnesia (Session 20 Room 0.31)Collective Memory and Deleted Heritage of the Migrants: Elements for a French/WelshComparisonMichael Rautenberg University Jean Monnet, SaintEtienne, France

Why Has Stalin Never Left Vienna?Elisa Kriza Germany

The Jewish Memory of Interwar Krakow in MemoirsIzabela Suchojad Jagiellonian University, Poland

A Vanished Past? The Uses of a Historical Square in ThessalonikiChristos Dermentzopoulos University of Ioannina, Greece

Theory and Memory (Session 21 Room 0.36)Memory Practices: Implications of Theorizing Memory as Entangled Material DoingsFelicitas Macgilchrist Georg Eckert Institut, Germany & Alexandra Binnenkade University of Basel andZurich University of Teacher Education, Switzerland

The Analysis of Collective Memory as Representation of Collective IdentitiesRuth Maria Mell Mannheim, Germany

The Analytics of Power and the Concept of Memory: Potentials and Critical Tensions inTheoretical ConceptualisationsStefanie Petschick University of Nottingham

Rembering the FutureJosh Robinson Cardiff University

Film and Media III (Session 22 Room 0.45)Nostalgia, Active Amnesia and Anamnesis: The Mutual Influence of Collective and IndividualMemories in Watchmen and XMen Origins: WolverineMaciej Sulmicki University of Warsaw, Poland

Finding Our Way Back: La Prima Angelica (Carlos Saura, 1973) and the Politics ofRememberingJuan Tarancon University of Zaragoza, Spain

The Past and Its (Dis)contents in PostCold War Romanian CinemaCristina Sandru

Thatcher, the Hunger Strikes and Mediating the 1980s: Visual and Aural Representations ofthe Past in HungerAndy Pope University of Portsmouth

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Haunting Memories: Gothic and Memoir from Hogg to BarnesErica Moore University of South Wales

Belonging in Time and Space: Wittman's Journey in Tripmaster MonkeyElise Marie Auvil University of Maryland, USA

Memory and Self in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of The DayAssil Ghariri University of Bechar, Algeria

Subjectivity of Memory in Childhood Graphic MemoirsKat LombardCook University of Edinburgh

Literatures of Identity and Self (Session 23 Room 2.03)

The Role of Cultural Memory in Firstperson Narratives Describing the Finnish Civil WarAndreas McKeough University of Helsinki, Finland

Emperor of Culture: Kawabata Yasunari's Role in the Erasure of Japanese Imperial Aggression,Domestic Repression and American HegemonyCharles Richard Cabell Toyo University, Japan

Remembered Heroes, Forgotten Compatriots: Politics on Collective MemoryChristos Bakalis University of the Aegean, Greece

World War One and the Agency of Material MemoriesBarbare Schaff Gottingen University, Germany

War and Memory (Session 24 Room 2.48)

Taking the Archive to the Street: Cultivating and Mobilizing Memory in Social MovementArchivesSusan Pell Richmond University, the American International University

Humanism in the Autobiographies Edward Said and Nelson Mandela: Memory as ActionJihan Zakarriya Cardiff University

Memory and Social Action (Session 25 Room 0.31)





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Local Poets, National Significance: Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost within Public MemoryCatherine Charlwood University of Warwick

Class Politics and Memorialisation in Two York Widows, Catherine Cappe and CharlotteSmith RichardsonKevin Binfield Murray State University, USA

Poetry and Memory (Session 26 Room 0.36)

Cultural Politics of Shrines and Saints in Karnataka, India A Case of Fundamentalist HinduAssault on Syncretic CultureSamuel Sequeira Cardiff University

The eyes cry bitterly, while the heart expresses joy: Memory and Emotion among theReligious Settler MovementSteffen Hagemann Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany

One Land, Two Narratives: Comparative Discourses of Memory and Trauma in Palestinianand Israeli ArtLuisa Gandolfo University of Aberdeen

Contested Territories (Session 28 Room 2.03)

Testimonies of the Repressed: the Historical Memory of FranchoismVicente Diaz Gandasegui Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

A Personal Journey through Memories of a LunaticBrian Machin University of Chester

Testimonies and Marginalised Voices (Session 27 Room 0.45)



Screening and Discussion of the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory's Migrant Memories afilm (23 minutes)The film was made as a public engagement aspect of a research project on Memories of IndianPartition.

Migrant Memories (Session 29 Room 2.01)

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