29June CardiffUniversity,GlamorganBuilding
09.00 Registrationandcoffee(signupforafternoonactivities)
09.45 Conferencewelcome,theChallengingHistorynetwork
09.50 OpeningProvocation:DavidAnderson,DirectorGeneral,AmgueddfaCymru-NationalMuseumWales‘AvoidingChallengingHistory’
10.05 Keynote:SamanthaHeywood,Director,MuseumofWorldWarII,Boston.‘Thechallengesofchallenginghistoryinthe‘real’world’SamanthaHeywoodworkedatImperialWarMuseumsfortwentyyears,startingoutasaneducationofficerand,by2015,asthedirectorofpublicprogrammes.Duringthistime,sheledIWM’spilotingofInspiringLearningforAllandthenation-widelearningprogramme,TheirPastYourFuture;workedonthedevelopmentofIWMNorth,andledtheteamsincreatingthenewAtriumandFirstWorldWarGalleriesatIWMLondonthatopenedin2014.ShehasworkedcloselywiththeambitionsofcentralgovernmentandLotteryfundersandyethasdeliveredthoughtfulandfocusedprogrammeswiththeirbacking.SheiscurrentlyworkingintheUSAwithaprojecttobuildanewmuseumofWorldWarII.[Chair:SamanthaCairns]
10.50 Coffee
11.15 PAPERS1:DifficultObjects[Chair:JoanneSayner]Objectsintheirrightfulplace:thecaseofthepotentialreturnofAustralianAboriginalObjectsfromoverseasmuseums,JulieGough,Artist,andCarolCooper,NationalMuseumofAustraliaWhoseheritage?–ForgottenEgyptianobjectsandre-imaginingidentity–examplesfromtheregionalWelshcommunitymuseumandtheEgyptianMuseuminCairo,KatharinaZinn,UniversityofWales:TrinitySaintDavidRe-Imaginingvaluethroughstakeholderimpactinconservationdecision-making,JaneHendersonandTanyaNakamotoReimaginingNationandMigrationthroughobject-centredmethodologies,ClaireSutherland
PAPERS2:Questioningprofessionalpractice[Chair:MirandaStearn]TheRoleofAcademicsintheFirstWorldWarCentenary(andbeyond),AmyRyall,SheffieldUniversity‘Manyconsiderationstomake–manyneedstobalance’Moralchallengesmuseumemployeesfacewhenworkingwithsensitivethemes,KathrynPabstMaking‘good’heritage,making‘good’women,AlidaPayson,CardiffUniversityDividedbydistance,unitedbyunderstanding?Theartofengagingwithchallenginghistory,AlixPowers-JonesandAndrewMcKenzie,NationalTrustforScotland
PAPERS3:TheActivistMuseum[Chair:AlexDrago]Definingthe‘ActivistMuseum’JennieCarvillSchellenbacherSilenceisnotneutralandobjectivitydoesnotexist,NicoleDeufel,JuraConsultantsIsitappropriatetore-imaginetheroleofmuseumsandmuseumprofessionalsasactivists?,JamesGriffiths,NationalHolocaustCentreandMuseum.Holocaustbybullets:Whathappenedandhowdoweknow?ThechallengesofcreatingalearningresourceforschoolsusingsensitivematerialsandeyewitnesstestimonyRachelDonnelly,ImperialWarMuseums
12.30 Lunch ScreeningofTomalah[andotherfilms]byartistJulieGough[TomalahisaresponsetovisitingtheTasmanianAboriginal19thcenturykelpwatercarrierheldintheBritishMuseum]
13.30 PAPERS4:EmotionalMuseums[Chair:AlidaPayson]
PAPERS5:Re-imaginingcommemoration[Chair:AmyRyall]
Workshop:Unpackingmuseums’rhetoricsof
FearGod:FearNought,AdrianDeakes,V&AandSaraGriffiths,TheNationalArchives,KewHeritageasProcessattheFoundlingMuseum,RachelEmilyTaylor,SheffieldHallamUniversity/UniversityoftheArtsLondon‘Beyourstoholdithigh’Responsibility,CommunityandEmotioninWW1CentenaryInterpretation,HannaSmyth,UniversityofOxfordEncounteringclimatechangethroughanimmersiveandinteractiveinstallationinthemuseumsetting,IridaNtalla,CityUniversityLondon
‘BeingThere’:anexplorationoflocativemediaartpracticesforpubliccommemorationoftheFirstWorldWar,MariaAlejandraLujanEscalante,(LancasterUniversity),CorinnaPeniston-Bird(LancasterUniversity);OliverWilkinson(ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity)Canempathybecomeactivismindigitalengagementprojects?TranscribingtheBookofRemembrance,FfionFielding,WalesforPeaceCommemoratingchallenginghistories,RebeccaNelson,WISECardiffRemembers,RachelSilverson,FiringLineMuseumoftheWelshSoldier
participation,CarrieNewman,CardiffUniversity
14.50
PANEL1:RevisitingMarshallMcLuhan’s‘themediumisthemessage’inexploringmuseumsasactivistsandcivilsocietymediators,LorraineDennis,QueensUniversityBelfast
14.50-15.20:ScreeningtheFirstWorldWarintheNorthWest:EditingtheHomeFront, MartinPurdyandCorinnaPeniston-Bird
Campfiresession
15.20-15.50:TBC
15.50 Leaveforoff-siteactivities(signupatregistration) 1.‘CardiffRemembers’walkaroundtheCityCentre
BlurbTBCLead:EmmaRoutley,CardiffRemembers
2.‘RefugeeWales’atOasisCardiff,asupportcentreforrefugeesandasylumseekersRefugeeWalesisanexhibitionandoralhistoryprojectexploringthepersonalnarrativesofpeoplewhohavecometoWalesasrefugeesandasylumseekers.WithvolunteersandparticipantsfromOasisCardiffwehaverecordedoralhistories,madedigitalstories,anddevelopedthemestocreateatouringexhibition.OasisCardiffisacommunitypartnerofNationalMuseumWalesandtheprojectisfundedbytheHLF.Lead:MariLowe,RefugeeWales
3.‘WalesforPeace’atTheTempleofPeaceThereinterpretationoftheTempleofPeaceisoneoftheaimsoftheWalesforPeaceproject,aswellasthedigitisationandsharingofsomeofthehiddengemsinthelibraryrelatingtoWales’scontributiontopeace.ThisisanopportunitytoexploretheTempleanditshistory,andtocontributetothedevelopmentofthisexcitingpartoftheproject.Lead:FfionFielding,WalesforPeace
4.‘GraveyardVoices’performanceatCathaysCemeteryUniversityofSouthWalesDramabrings‘historytolife’withperformersenactingshortdramaticscenesandmonologuesrelatingtothestoriesofthepeopleburiedintheUK’sthirdlargestcemetery,rangingfromtherichandinfluential,thephilanthropicandheroictotheprofoundlytragicandemblematic.Lead:RichardJ.Hand,UniversityofSouthWales
17.45 DrinksreceptionatTheTempleofPeace,CardiffFeaturingperformance(18.00-19.00):Electro-funkstorytellers‘HarpandaMonkey’TomarktheongoingcentenaryofWWIHarpandaMonkeyhavecreatedashowthatchallengesstereotypesoftheconflict.TheGreatWar:NewSongs&Storiesisanexcitingperformancethatincludesbothoriginalsongsandre-workingsoftraditionalsongs,fieldrecordingsofpeoplewholivedthroughthewarandthepoignant,tragicandhumorousanecdotesofabona-fideFirstWorldWarexpert.TheworkhasbeensupportedbyArtsCouncilEnglandandTheWesternFrontAssociation.
20.00 ConferencemealatTheClink,CardiffPrison
Signupfortheconferencemealwhenyouregisteronline.Thecostcoversathree-coursemealpluscoffeeandawelcomecocktailatTheClink,HMPCardiff–deliveringchangeandstaffedbyprisoners.Auniquediningexperience,withinthegroundsofthisCategoryBprison.
30June AmgueddfaCymru-NationalMuseumWales
09.00
Registrationandcoffee
09.45 Welcome
09.50 Keynote:DavidGunn,TheIncidental,‘MuseumsofLiesandSecrets’[Chair:JennyKidd]
10.40 Coffee
11.00 PAPERS6:DifferentlyDigital[Chair:AlexDrago]TellingdifficultstoriesofchildbirthattheThackrayMedicalMuseum,LaurenRyall-Stockton,ThackrayMedicalMuseum,LauraKingandAdrianWilson,UniversityofLeedsRe-ImaginingGraveyards:Performingand
PAPERS7:ChangingtheNarrative[Chair:AlidaPayson]ThememorialisationofBomberCommand:anattempttocometotermswithheritagedissonance,DanEllin,HeatherHughes,AlessandroPesaroRevivingconnectionsbetween19thcentury
PAPERS8:Re-definingrelationships[Chair:MirandaStearn]Co-curatingBrightonRoyalPavilion‘sWW1heritage,KevinBaconandJodyEast,RoyalPavilionandMuseums,Brighton&HoveChallengingmemoriesfromCare:Life
PodcastingCardiff’sCathaysCemetery,RichardHand,UniversityofSouthWales,RachelProtheroe,CardiffCityCouncilSurprise,ambiguityandtheuncanny:re-imaginingdigitalencountersof‘othernesss’throughdesign-drivenmuseumresearch,AretiGalani,AbigailDurrantandRhiannonMason,NewcastleUniversity
industrialmuseums,SandraKemp,V&AandImperialCollegeLondon‘Death:thehumanexperience’:curationdesignedtochallenge,NanHu,CardiffUniversityThedestructionoftheItalianAuschwitzmemorialin2015,GregorioCarboniMaestri,UniversitéLibredeBruxelles
StoryworkintheMuseum,DelythEdwards,UniversityofLeicesterBuildingaMuseumforBritain’sRefugees,AmyDimmock,HuguenotMuseum
12.00 PANEL:ObjectJourneysattheBritishMuseum–re-imaginingparticipationandculturalnarrativethroughcommunitycollaborations,KayteMcSweeney,BritishMuseum,AbiraHussein,Projectparticipant,JuliaAnkenbrand,CDAstudent.
Campfiresession
12.45 Lunch
13.40 Keynote:StephenBourne,‘BlackPoppies’StephenBourneisoneofBritain’sleadingexpertsonBlackBritishhistory.Theauthoroffourteenbooksonthesubject,StephenhaswrittenforBBCHistoryMagazineandisaregularcontributortotheOxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography.TheauthorofMotherCountry–Britain’sBlackCommunityontheHomeFront1939-45(TheHistoryPress,2010)andTheMotherlandCalls–Britain’sBlackServicemen&Women1939-45(TheHistoryPress,2012),hehasbeenshortlistedforawardssuchasTheVoiceCommunityAwardforLiteratureandcamerunnerupforTheRaymondWilliamsPrizeforCommunityPublishing.In2012StephenwasawardedaWingateScholarshiptoundertakeresearchintoBlacktheatreinBritainandforBlackPoppies-Britain’sBlackCommunityandTheGreatWar(TheHistoryPress)hereceivedthe2015SouthwarkArtsForumAwardforLiterature.[Chair:JoanneSayner]
14.25 PANEL2:Re-ImaginingtheWorkhouse:Movingpeoplefrommemorytoaction.JimGrevatte,TheNationalTrust(plusco-presentersTBC)[Chair:CarrieNewman]
PANEL3:Blood-SweptLandsandSeasofRedattheTowerofLondonandonTour,MeganGooch,TowerofLondon,JoanneSayner,UniversityofBirmingham,JennyKidd,CardiffUniversity.[Chair:SamCairns]
Tourof‘War’sHell:TheBattleofMametzinArt’atNationalMuseum,Cardiff
15.15 Lightningtalks
15.45 Closingstatementsanddiscussion
16.15–18.30
DrinksandcanapésattheFiringLineMuseumoftheWelshSoldier,CardiffCastle(drinkswillbeinthecastlegroundsifweatherpermits,withdelegateshavingaccesstothemuseumalso).
Foranybodyinterested,therewillbeanovernightvigilinattheWelshNationalWarMemorialinCathaysParktomarktheCentenaryofTheBattleoftheSomme.Thisformspartofanationalprogrammeofevents.