Programme and Abstracts

The programme for the conference can be accessed here


Speakers' abstracts and bios can be found below.

KEYNOTES:

Professor Alan Rice (UCLan)
Dr Richard Benjamin

Discussant: Dr Zoë Norridge


PANEL 1 - Artists and Activists

Miranda Stearn (Courtauld Institute of Art): Inviting Resistance - Artist interventions and contested histories in museums

Alan Boulton (Barber Institute): Prophesying Götterdämmerung: Henry Fuseli and customary, eighteenth-century visual aesthetics

Adrian Knapp (Leeds University): ‘to be able to read [...] and a divine blessing to understand!’: Notions of the Self in Ottobah Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments


PANEL 2 - Public and Private histories

Emily Ryder (University of Glasgow): Private faces in public places: contesting the official memory of victims of terrorism in Italy

Charlotte Heath-Kelly (Aberystwyth University): Guerilla Memories: Consolidating and Resisting Narratives of Conflict through Ex-militant Testimony

Britt Baillie (University of Cambridge): The Dudik Memorial Complex: Heritage as ‘Resistance’ in a Contested City


PANEL 3 - Nations, audiences and identities

Lisa Socrates (UCL): Greek-Cypriot Cinema post-1974: The Akamas controversy and national cinema. Contesting the ‘nation’s’ time and narrative space

Jesse Gardiner (University of Nottingham): Re-remembering the Stalinist Past: Golyi korol at the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre