Monday 21 May 2012
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
Friday 4 May 2012
Registration, Venue and Accommodation
This one-day interdisciplinary conference will take place at the University of York on Tuesday 3rd July 2012 in the Berrick Saul Building, on Heslington West Campus.
Information about directions and accommodation can be found here.
Due to generous funding from the Humanities Research Centre and the Centre for Modern Studies at the University of York, attendance is free and lunch and coffee/tea will be provided but places are limited, so please register by sending the registration form to contestedhistories@gmail.com by 15th June 2012.
Information about directions and accommodation can be found here.
Due to generous funding from the Humanities Research Centre and the Centre for Modern Studies at the University of York, attendance is free and lunch and coffee/tea will be provided but places are limited, so please register by sending the registration form to contestedhistories@gmail.com by 15th June 2012.
Friday 20 January 2012
Call for Papers
Contested histories and the parameters of resistance
University of York, Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Confirmed Keynote: Dr. Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire)
Representing the past is a contested and dissonant process. The
promotion of particular voices and stories within history in line with
the simultaneous suppression of others is an action which is both
directed by and influences the politics of identity, performances of
power and reaction to contemporary circumstance. But alongside
authoritative and officially endorsed versions of the past are
instances of cultural resistance which seek to challenge the agreed
conventions and fill silences. Alan Rice (2010) has described
occurrences of artistic reaction to dominant historical narratives as
'Guerrilla Memorialisation'. Through this terminology the importance
of recognising these gestures as a distinctly active, political and
performative process. Whilst these actions stand as important acts of
resistance in their own right, it seems important to question and
indeed try to understand the consequences of these processes of
challenge. What are the legacies of such acts and what is their impact
on official narratives? What are the boundaries and limitations of
resistance to authoritative versions of the past and by whom are they
imposed? Who are the audiences for this resistance and how is it
received?
This interdisciplinary conference aims to create a dialogue across
subjects about the different ways in which narratives, cultural
artefacts, spaces and places are creatively used and reused to perform
acts of resistance which contest authoritative versions of history. In
line with this we hope to raise questions about the different kinds of
impact these processes may have on people, stories and understandings
of the past and indeed the present.
Conference presentations will be followed by a discussion, led by Dr
Zoë Norridge (University of York), which will explore both the theory
and the practice of resisting official histories and interrogate the
parameters of resistance. We welcome proposals from postgraduate
students and early career researchers working in or across disciplines
including History, Literature, History of Art, Archaeology,
Architecture, Cultural Studies, Film, Geography, International
Development, Politics and related fields.
Please send abstracts of up to 300 words for papers of 20 minutes as
well as a brief academic biography of 50 to 100 words to the
conference organisers (Isabelle Hesse, Jessica Moody and Nicola Robinson at
contestedhistories@gmail.com by 5pm 30th March.
University of York, Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Confirmed Keynote: Dr. Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire)
Representing the past is a contested and dissonant process. The
promotion of particular voices and stories within history in line with
the simultaneous suppression of others is an action which is both
directed by and influences the politics of identity, performances of
power and reaction to contemporary circumstance. But alongside
authoritative and officially endorsed versions of the past are
instances of cultural resistance which seek to challenge the agreed
conventions and fill silences. Alan Rice (2010) has described
occurrences of artistic reaction to dominant historical narratives as
'Guerrilla Memorialisation'. Through this terminology the importance
of recognising these gestures as a distinctly active, political and
performative process. Whilst these actions stand as important acts of
resistance in their own right, it seems important to question and
indeed try to understand the consequences of these processes of
challenge. What are the legacies of such acts and what is their impact
on official narratives? What are the boundaries and limitations of
resistance to authoritative versions of the past and by whom are they
imposed? Who are the audiences for this resistance and how is it
received?
This interdisciplinary conference aims to create a dialogue across
subjects about the different ways in which narratives, cultural
artefacts, spaces and places are creatively used and reused to perform
acts of resistance which contest authoritative versions of history. In
line with this we hope to raise questions about the different kinds of
impact these processes may have on people, stories and understandings
of the past and indeed the present.
Conference presentations will be followed by a discussion, led by Dr
Zoë Norridge (University of York), which will explore both the theory
and the practice of resisting official histories and interrogate the
parameters of resistance. We welcome proposals from postgraduate
students and early career researchers working in or across disciplines
including History, Literature, History of Art, Archaeology,
Architecture, Cultural Studies, Film, Geography, International
Development, Politics and related fields.
Please send abstracts of up to 300 words for papers of 20 minutes as
well as a brief academic biography of 50 to 100 words to the
conference organisers (Isabelle Hesse, Jessica Moody and Nicola Robinson at
contestedhistories@gmail.com by 5pm 30th March.
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