Family Ties: Recollection and Representation
An interdisciplinary conference
Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Senate House, University of London
PROGRAMME
Thursday 8th March 2012
Chancellors Hall (Coffin Fund lecture)
6.00-6.45pm
Wine Reception, Grand lobby
6:45-7:35pm
Film screening of 2001 - A Family Odyssey: Ophelia's Version (2002)
7:35-8:15pm
Sarah Miles in conversation with Dr. Lucy Reynolds, University of the Arts
Friday 9th March 2012
9:30
Registration and coffee
9.50
Welcome and introduction (Chancellors Hall)
Dr. Sally Waterman
10.00
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University, UK
‘Of Mourning, Mothers and Chocolate: double infinity and the affective gift’
11.00
Tea/Coffee Break, Grand Lobby
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Chancellors Hall
Session 1:
A QUESTION OF ETHICS
11.30
Paper 1: Dr. Deborah Schultz, Richmond, The American University in London, UK:
‘Representations of the family in contemporary photography’
12:00
Paper 2: Camilla Brown, Independent Curator, UK: ‘When pictures from home end up
in the museum: the role contemporary photography plays in actively constructing
family memories and the impact of then putting them on public display’
12.30
Paper 3: Emily Fuggle, Imperial War Museum, London, UK: ‘Sole traces of existence:
The use of family photographs in the Life before the Nazis section of the Imperial War
Museum’s Holocaust Exhibition’
Session 2:
LIFE HISTORIES
Court Room
11.30
Paper 4: Dr. Anna Izabela Cichoń, University of Wrocław, Poland: ‘Family
Frames, Memory and Autobiography: Doris Lessing’s Under my Skin and Walking
in the Shade’
12.00
Paper 5: Suze Adams, University of the West of England, UK: ‘Communion: Oral
histories retold, ancestral lands reframed’ (A performative film made in response to the
Isle of Mull)
12.30
Paper 6: David Jackson, University of Bedfordshire, UK: ‘Mediterranean (So Blue, So
Beautiful): An auto-ethnography in pictures’
1.00-2:30
Lunch (Own arrangements)
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Chancellors Hall
Session 3:
SHIFTING TECHNOLOGIES
2.30
Paper 7: Jacqueline Butler, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK: ‘The wonder
of forgetting, collecting and assembling’
3.00
Paper 8: Dr. Nicky Bird, Glasgow School of Art, UK: ‘Looking a gift horse…:
Generosity and the Digital Exchange of Family photographs’
3.30
Paper 9: Sylvie Prasad, University of East London, UK: ‘May Days: An examination of
mobile filmmaking, family and memory’
Court Room
Session 4:
TRAUMA: WAR AND EXILE
2.30
Paper 10: Dr. Deirdre Byrnes, National University of Ireland, Galway: ‘Presenting the
Past: Photography, Memory Gaps and Postmemory in Monika Maron’s Family Story
Pawels Briefe’
3.00
Paper 11: Lizzie Thynne, Sussex University, UK: ‘On the Border: Exploring a postwar Finnish family biography through video practice’
3.30
Paper 12: Leslie Hakim-Dowek, University of Portsmouth, UK: ‘The City That
Exploded Slowly: Photo-text Series Mapping a Personal Archaeology in War-Torn Beirut’
4:00
Tea/Coffee Break, Grand Lobby
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Chancellors Hall
Session 5:
REVISITING LOSS
4.30
Paper 13: Prof. Patrizia Violi, University of Bologna, Italy: ‘Documentary filmmaking
as elaboration of mourning: Family and collective history in Un’ora sola ti vorrei (Dir.
Alina Marazzi, Italy, 2002)’
5.00
Paper 14: Marjolaine Ryley, University of Sunderland, UK: ‘The Thin Blue Line/The
Deep Red Sea: Artists’ Explorations of Miscarriage and Loss’
5.30
Paper 15: Sarah Pucill, University of Westminster, UK: ‘Re-enactment as cathartic
ritual in the film ‘Stages Of Mourning’
Court Room
Session 6:
ARTISTS EXPLORING THE FAMILY ARCHIVE
4.30
Paper 16: Trish Morrissey, Photographic artist, UK: ‘The Imposter and the Family
Album’
5.00
Paper 17: Angela Kelly, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA, ‘Catharsis:
Images of Post Conflict Belfast 2010-11’
5.30
Paper 18: Hamish Gane, Swansea Metropolitan University, UK: ‘200 Seconds: In Light
of the Past. Long-exposure photographs, created during the projection of family cine
films, exploring a space between perception and recollection’
6.00
Close and wine reception, Grand Lobby
6:30-7:30
Chancellors Hall (Coffin Fund lecture)
Keynote Speaker: Rosy Martin