‘Foreign Fields: The Recovery and Commemoration of War Dead in PostColonial Contexts’
Interdisciplinary Symposium, Thursday 17th September 2015
The Clattern Lecture Theatre, Kingston University, Penrhyn Rd, Kingstonupon-Thames
09:30 Coffee and Welcome
10:00 Session One
Anzac Anxieties: Overcoming Geographical and Temporal Distance in the Recovery and Reburial of
Australian War Dead at Fromelles
Dr Layla Renshaw, School of Applied and Human Sciences, Kingston University
‘Like Pebbles Stuck in a Sieve’: Reading the Traces of Romushas in Southeast Asian Captivity
Narratives
Dr Lizzie Oliver, Leeds Humanities Research Institute / Wellcome Trust, University of Leeds
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Session Two
Commemorating the Indian presence on the Western Front, 1914-2014
Dominiek Dendooven, In Flanders Field Museum, Ypres
‘The Challenge of the Disappeared’: Commemorating the First World War Missing of the Indian
Army in Memorials Commissioned in the 1920’s by the Imperial War Graves Commission
Dr Jonathon Black, School of Art and Design History, Kingston University
The Militarisation of Multiculture
Professor Vron Ware, School of Psychology, Criminology and Sociology, Kingston University
(Session chaired by Dr Layla Renshaw)
13:00 Lunch and screening of films/works by Said Adrus from the ongoing ‘Lost Pavilion’ Project
14:00 Session Three
‘Mediated Memories and the West Indian dead of the First World War’
Dr Richard Smith, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
“We Die Like Brothers” – Rebalancing the Commemoration of South Africa’s First World War Dead
Graham Scott, Wessex Archaeology
(Session chaired by Professor Vron Ware)
15:00 Coffee and screening of animated film in commemoration of the Wreck of the Mendi
15:30 Session Four
As Soldiers Remembered, as Individuals Forgotten, and Legends Found: The Ongoing Efforts to
Reassess and Re-contextualize ‘Meaning’ of America’s Lost Dead of the First World War
Charles Eavenson II, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol
16:00 The Restless Dead: Multiethnic ‘Zombies’, Mussolini, and First World Archaeology along the
Soča/Isonzo Valley
Professor Nicholas Saunders, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol
(Session chaired by Dr Jonathon Black)
16:30 Discussion
17:00 Close