Provisional Programme:
Weds 17th July
5pm
7pm
Delegates arrive
Dinner and welcome
Thurs 18th July
8.15
Breakfast
9.00-9.10
Welcome and practicalities
9.10-10.10
Memory’
Keynote by Prof. Jay Winter (Yale University): ‘Silence as Language of
10.10-11.10
Session 1: European Memorial Sites
Dr Kate Vigurs, University of Leeds, ‘Landscapes of Memory: An Investigation of Holocaust
Memorials in Europe’.
Alex Drago, Historic Royal Palaces, 'A light of overwhelming intensity: photography and
memorialisation at the Lidice Memorial'.
Session 1a: The Role of the Visual
Katie Markham, University of York, ‘The Inter-generational Museum: Photographic Empathy
at District Six Museum’.
Candela Delgado-Marín, University of Spain, Seville, ‘Female Visual Artists Freeing Audience
from Speech: Silence as Liberation Through Art’.
11.10-11.40
Coffee
11.40-12.40
Session 2: War and Peace
Dr. Tim Jacoby and Catherine Roberts, University of Manchester, ‘Build the Truce at Imperial
War Museums’.
Charlie Keitch, Imperial War Museum, and Dr. Silke Arnold-de Simine, Birkbeck University,
‘Interpreting the First World War Through Digital Media’
Session 2a: Placing Memory
Meghan Bowe, University of Cambridge, ‘Speaking Through Silence? Ideology and Post-war
Reconstruction in Rostock, Germany’.
Catherine Jones, Historic Royal Palaces, ‘Where Past and Present Converge: Remembering
and Forgetting the Massacre of Maillé’.
Session 2b: Objects and Authenticity
Alexandra Woodall, University of Leicester, ‘On the Paradox of Silence’.
Dr Nikki Spalding, ‘Touching the Trauma of the Past: Empathetic Engagement and the
Pedagogy and Ethics of Object Handling’.
Dr Julie Thorpe, University of Western Sydney, ‘Silent Stitches: Remembering
Austria-Hungary’s WWI Refugees’
1.00-2.00
2.00- 3.00
Lunch
Parallel Interactive Sessions:
Alison Gagg, Buckfast Abbey, 'Silence4U' - playing with silence'.
Anna Farthing, Harvest Heritage Arts and Media, Performance and Participation.
3.00-3.20
3.20-4.20
Coffee
Session 3: The Family and the Home
Jackie Lee, Artemis Scotland, ‘Silence and Empathy in Heritage Interpretation: The Happy
Family?’
Dr. Christopher Lee, ‘A House For Mrs Monteith’.
Session 3a: Voices
Dr Kyoko Murakami, University of Bath, ‘Rethinking ‘dialogicality’: Art of silence and
empathic engagement in the Way of Tea’.
Jane Williams, National Museums Northern Ireland, ‘Whatever you say, say nothing:
challenges for Northern Ireland’s museums’.
4.20-5.10
Session 4
Alex Drago, Historic Royal Palaces, ‘Measuring Learning and the Learning Journey’.
Sam Cairns, Culture, Museum and Heritage Learning Consultant, 'Evaluation and silence:
does what we measure become what we value?'.
5.10-6.40
7.10-10.00
Friday 19th
The Valliant Solider: A Pub Museum
Conference dinner
8.15
9.00-9.10
Breakfast
Welcome and practicalities
9.10-10.10
Keynote by Dr Elizabeth Bonshek (University of Canberra), ‘Leaving silence
behind: constructing meaningful action through museum collections’.
10.10-11.10
Session 5: Media of Memory
Dr Jenny Kidd, Cardiff University, ‘Museum Online Games: A Misuse of Empathy?’
Professor Maggie Andrews, University of Worcester, ‘Broadcast Remembrance: Domestic,
personal and feminine?’
Session 5a Postcolonial Perspectives
Tom Haward, Oriel High School, "A Trail of Three Cities" - Remembering and Forgetting the
Slave Trade in London, Liverpool and Bristol.
Leanne Philpot, University of Cambridge, ‘Breaking the Silence, Breaking the Chains:
Negotiating Silences and Speech in Slavery Heritage in the UK.
11.10-11.40
Coffee
11.40-12.40
Session 6: Eyewitnesses, Trauma and Warfare
Emma Black, Surgeons’ Hall Museum, ‘Empathy and Engagement in Medical Museums’
Amy Ryall, University of Sheffield, ‘Silence, Memory and Empathy: What Do Eyewitnesses
Bring to our Understanding of Challenging Histories?’
Session 6a: Spirituality and Secularism
Hana Havlujova, Charles University, Prague, ‘Revival(s) of Genius Loci or the Phenomenology
of Education for Heritage.
Dr. Avril Alba, University of Sydney, ‘The Counter Memorial Void: Silence as Secular
Theology’.
12.40-1.40
Lunch
1.40-2.40
Parallel sessions:
Alison Gagg, Buckfast Abbey, 'Silence4U' - playing with silence'.
Nick Winterbotham, GEM, ‘Museums, Empathy and a Deeper Purpose’.
2.40-3.10
3.10-4.00
Close
Coffee
Concluding Roundtable Discussion