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

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.