Memory,
Mourning,
and Landscape
University of Glasgow
8.45
Registration, tea and coffee
9.15
Opening Plenary
9 June 2008
Carnegie Room
Senate Room
Chair: Kate McLoughlin
The Obituary as Collective Memory
Prof. Bridget Fowler
University of Glasgow
Men, mountains and memory. Discourses of wilderness, entitlement
and gender in online and media debates on mountainside memorials
Avril Maddrell
University of the West of England
10.25
Loci of Meditation
Chair: David Jasper
A Poetics of Self-Presence: Hölderlin's Discovery of a Non-Mournful
Attitude To Nature
Daniel Whistler
University of Oxford
The Lido in the Forest: Painting, Memory and Subjectivity
Judith Tucker
University of Leeds
The Topography of remembrance in the 13th century Sufi poet and
mystic Muhyi’ddîn Ibn-‘Arabî’s ‘Tarjumân al-Ashwâq’.
Jim Harold
University of Glasgow
Senate Room
Upper Seminar
Room, #4 The
Square
Legacies
Chair: Hannah Little
"That's how it was; it couldn't have been any other way": landscape
and the cultural memory of language shift in Brittany
Dick Vigers
University of Southampton
Inherited things: memory, mourning and the law of succession
Hilary Hiram
University of Glasgow
The September 11 Digital Archive: Memorials and community on the
Internet
Ruth Frendo
London School of Economics
Lower Seminar
Room, #4 The
Square
Displacements
Chair: Julia Shear
Unsilencing Slavery’s Phantom in The Dilemma of a Ghost
Georgia Axiotou
University of Edinburgh
Commemoration and Residential Schools in Canada
Tricia Logan
Aboriginal Healing Foundation
L'espace Liturgique: Seder and Imagined Landscape
Alana Vincent
University of Glasgow
English 202
Writing Loss
Chair: Ruth Hawthorn
Remembering to Forget in John Steffler’s The Afterlife of George
Cartwright
Jessica Langston
University of Ottawa
‘A scene from the past’: Virginia Woolf and Dramatised Memory
Elizabeth Wright
University of St. Andrews
Ghosts in R. D. Laing’s Glasgow
Amy Wygant
11.25
Tea and Coffee
University of Glasgow
Carnegie Room
11.50
Memorials as Re-Writings
Senate Room
Chair: Amy Wygant
From Hitler's Airport to the Wailing Beam: the Site of the 1972
Munich Olympic Games as a Palimpsest of Memory and Forgetting
Kay Schiller
University of Durham
‘A mark of esteem that will live forever’: War-Memorials, Ideology
and Emotion in Revolutionary France
Joseph Clarke
Trinity College, Dublin
Memorials and Antimemorials in post-Pinochet Chile: commemoration
as denunciation
Cath Collins
Universidad Diego Portales
Ways of Death
Chair: Anneliese Mackintosh
Sailing home: Boat-graves, migrant identities and funerary practices
on the Viking Frontier
Erin-Lee McGuire
University of Glasgow
Bulgarian Post-Mortem Photography in the 1960’s
Margarita Georgieva
Université de Nice Sophia – Antipolis
Upper Seminar
Room, #4 The
Square
Lower Seminar
Room, #4 The
Square
Intimations of the Numinous
Chair: Heather Walton
Writing through grief: H.D.'s World War II novels
Elizabeth Anderson
University of Glasgow
Right Remembering and Violent Places: the Poetry of Yusef
Komunyakaa
Donovan McAbee
University of St Andrews
Tracing Bodies: Jane Urquhart’s A Map of Glass and Sacramental
Geography
Mark Godin
University of Glasgow
English 202
Monuments and Obliteration
Chair: Alana Vincent
Landscape and Forgetting
Joel Robinson
University of Essex
See Under: Mythology. The Holocaust at Yad Vashem
Jaime Ashworth
University of Southampton
Monumental life-cycles: Australian landscapes of disaster
memorialisation
Jenny Winnett
Banksia Heritage & Archaeology, Australia
12.50
Carnegie Room
Lunch
14.00
Beyond the Archive: Fieldwork in the Humanities
Chair: Elizabeth Anderson
Panelists: Bridget Fowler,
Department of Sociology,
University of Glasgow
Avril Maddrell, Department of Geography,
University of the West of England
Natasha Ferguson, Centre for Battlefield Archaeology,
University of Glasgow
Alana Vincent,
Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts,
University of Glasgow
Senate Room
Upper Seminar
Room, #4 The
Square
The Politics of Rememberance
Chair: Rachel Kent
Spain's New Law of Historical Memory: a monumental difficulty
Jeremy Treglown
University of Warwick
Politics and the ‘failure’ of memorialization in Post-War I Portugal
Silvia Correia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Memorialising Civil Strife: Athens in the Late Fifth Century B.C.
Julia Shear
University of Glasgow
Lower Seminar
Room, #4 The
Square
Memorialising War
Chair: Siobhann McCafferty
Names and Numbers: Calibrating, Memorialising and Representing
War
Kate McLoughlin
University of Glasgow
Memory, Mourning, and Malvern Hill: Herman Melville and the
Poetry of the Civil War
Cynthia Watchell
Yeshiva University
Bodies in the Landscape: English Literature and the land between two
world wars
David Goldie
University of Strathclyde
English 202
Battle Monuments
Chair: Mark Godin
Hallowed ground: battlefield landscapes in Western consciousness
Jennifer Novotny
University of Glasgow
Community and Commemoration: First World War Memorials of the
North of England
Denise Coss
University of Durham
Appropriating the past: Scotland’s battles commemorated
Ann MacSween
Historic Scotland
15.05
Presentation from Imperial War Museum North
David Hopkins
IWM North
Senate Room
15.25
Tea & Coffee
15.35
Expressions in the Scottish Landscape: Research and
Resources at RCAHMS
Adam Welfare
Carnegie
Room
RCAHMS
15.55
Closing Remarks
16.00
Break
17.15
Memory, Mourning and the Landscape of the Two World
Wars
Jay Winter
Senate Room
Senate Room
Senate Room
Yale University
Introduced by Phillips O’Brien, University of Glasgow
18.30
Wine Reception
Cloisters