Cultural Politics of Memory

Programme

May 14 16
2014

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9:00 11:00

Day 1: Wednesday 14 May

Registration, John Percival Refectory

11:00 12:30

Welcome Address, Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre

Professor Damian Walford Davies, School of English
Communication and Philosophy, followed by:
Plenary Lecture I, Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre
Dr Glenn Jordan,University of South Wales and Director Butetown
History & Arts Centre and Professor Chris Weedon, Cardiff
University: Changing the Archive: History and Memory as Cultural
Politics in Multiethnic Wales

12: 30 13:30

Lunch, John Percival Refectory

13:30 15:30

Parallel Sessions 1 4, John Percival Building

Museums, Memorial Architecture, Ideology, 0.31
Film and New Media I, 0.36
Writing Memory I, 0.45
Migration and Displacement, 2.03

15:30 16:00

Tea and Coffee, John Percival Refectory

16:00 17:30

Plenary II, Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre

Dr Roshini Kempadoo, University of East London: Gazing Outward
and Looking Back: Caribbean Archives, Memory and Critical Aesthetics.

17:30 19:00

Parallel Sessions 5 9, John Percival Building

Memory Objects and Mediascapes, 0.31
Memory and Visual Culture I, 0.36
Social Practices & Enacted Memory, 0.45
Gendered Memory I, 2.03
Cultural Heritage, 2.48

19:30

Drinks Reception, Butetown History & Arts Centre

Transport from Julian Hodge Building will be provided

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Day 2: Thursday 15 May

8:30 9:00

Registration, John Percival Refectory

9:00 11:00

Parallel Sessions 1014, John Percival Building

Archive, Oral History and Memory, 0.31
Film and New Media II, 0.36
Topographies of Memory, 0.45
Memory, the Public and Affect, 2.03
Writing Memory, 2.48

11:00 11:30

Tea and Coffee, John Percival Refectory

11: 30 13:00

Plenary III, Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre

Valerie Hill Jackson, Texas A&M University. Screening and
discussion of oral history project: The Lost GI Brides from Tiger Bay:
An Oral History of Their Preemigration Experiences

13:00 14:00

Lunch, John Percival Refectory

14:00 16:00

Parallel Sessions 1519, John Percival Building

Archeology, History, Sites of Memory, 0.31
Gendered Memory II, 0.36
Writing Memory III, 0.45
Post War Europe, 2.03
Trauma and Memory, 2.48

16:00 16:30

Tea and Coffee, John Percival Refectory

16:30 18:00

Plenary IV, Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre

Professor Paul Connerton, Cambridge University: How the Living
and the Dead Used to Form a Single Community

19:30

Conference dinner at the Bayside Brasserie in Cardiff Bay

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Day 3: Friday 16 May

8:30 9:00

Registration, John Percival Refectory

9:00 11:00

Parallel Sessions 2024, John Percival Building

City Scapes and Amnesia, 0.31
Theory and Memory, 0.36
Film and New Media III, 0.45
Literatures of Identity and Self, 2.03
War and Memory, 2.48

11:00 11:30

Tea and Coffee, John Percival Refectory

11: 30 13:00

Plenary V, Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre

Professor Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English,
Ohio University: Migration, Exile, and NonViolence: Through a
Transnational Glass Darkly

13:00 13:45

Lunch, John Percival Refectory

13:45 15:15

Parallel Sessions 2529, John Percival Building

Memory and Social Action, 0.31
National Contexts, Class and Memory, 0.36
Testimonies and Memoirs, 0.45
Contested Territories, 2.03
Migrant Memories, 2.01

15:15 16:15

Closing Round Table, 2.01

Theory & the Cultural Politics of Memory

16:15 16:30

Tea and Coffee, John Percival Refectory

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Parallel Sessions 14

Day 1: Wednesday 14 May

13:30 15:30

Museums, Memorials, Ideology (Session 1 Room 0.31)

Chair: Glenn Jordan
Curating Cultural Memory: Primo Levi at the Jewish Museum of Rome
John Champagne Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, USA

Memory and Representation in the Poetics and Politics of Brazilian and Portuguese Museums
Lilia Abadia University of Nottingham / CAPES Foundation Brazil

Curating Cultural Memory in African American Museums

Gwennaelle Cariou Paris Diderot University, France

We Were Eternally Right and They Were Eternally Wrong: Politics and the Memory of the
Civil War in American Cemeteries
Emily Williams The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, USA

Film and Media I (Session 2 Room 0.36)

Chair: Juan Tarancon

Witness to Remember: The Syrian Conflict and the Construction of Memory on YouTube
Rik Smit University of Groningen, Netherlands

What do We Fear? Trauma, Past and the Monster: Perspectives on the Works of Murnau and
Guillermo del Toro
Maria Gil Poisa Texas AM University, USA

Forget and Forgive? Amnesiac Veterans in Film Noir and Postwar Readjustment
Kulraj Phullar Kings College London

Writing Memory I (Session 3 Room 0.45)

Chair: Axel Goodbody

Salvation through Memory: Sloan Wilsons The Man in the Gray Flannel Suits Critique of US
Governments Politics of Silencing World War II Memories
Ruben Cenamor University of Barcelona, Spain

The Politics of Translation and the Politics of Memory

Teresa CanedaCabrera University of Vigo, Spain

The Broken Memory of the Iranian Nation State Building Architects

Hawzhen Rashadaddin Ahmed - University of Leicester

Cultural Politics of Memory

Parallel Sessions 14

Day 1: Wednesday 14 May

13:30 15:30

Migration and Displacement (Session 4 Room 2.03)

Chair: Olivette Otele

Tracing Traumatic Transpacific Memories: The Experimental Art of Jinme Yoon

Kirsten Emiko McAllister Simon Fraser University, Canada

Your Story Belongs to the Story of the City

Anders Hg Hansen Malmo University, Sweden

Memory, Exclusion and Inclusion

Patrick Imbert University of Ottawa, Canada

Wasnt it golden?: Domophilia and the Constructions of Home in Narratives of the 1947
India/Pakistan Partition
Anindya Raychaudhuri University of St Andrews

Parallel Sessions 59
17:30 19:00

Day 1: Wednesday 14 May

Memory Objects and Mediascapes (Session 5 Room 0.31)

Chair: Sam Sequiera

Hide and Seek: Family Histories and Nazi Germany

Christine Lohmeier University of Munich, Germany

Communicative Memory of Undocumented Migration: ReCirculation of News Images In

YouTube
Karina Horsti University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Digital Repatriation of Photographs and Generational Memory Work

Randi Marselis University of Southern Denmark

Memory and Visual Culture I (Session 6 Room 0.36)

Chair: Claudio Celis

The Bones in Banda: Vision, Art, and Memory in Maluku

Julie Berger Hochstrasser University of Iowa, USA

Unheard Voices: Lappish People in Matti Saanio's Reportage during and after PostWar
Reconstruction
Mervi Autti University of Lapland, Finland

(Re)Mediation of Socialist Monuments in Czech Contemporary Art

Andrea Pruchova Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Cultural Politics of Memory

Parallel Sessions 59

Day 1: Wednesday 14 May

17:30 19:00
Social Practices & Enacted Memory (Session 7 Room 0.45)
Chair: Amjad Saleem
Recall and Response
Adeola Dewis Cardiff University

Affective Flows, Sensible Becomings: Synaesthetic Encounters with Holocaust Memorials

Dorota Golanska University of Lodz, Poland

Race, History, Memory and Revision in James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie
Meredith MalburneWade Elon University, USA

Gendered Memory I (Session 8 Room 2.03)

Chair: Bethan Harries

Remembering Woody Allen and Roman Polanski: Gender, Violence and Memorialisation in
Popular Culture
Tanya Serisier Queens University Belfast

Exploring Women ExCombatants' Unusual Archives

Yoana Fernanda Nieto Valdiviesco University of Hull

History and (Hi)Story: A Collection of Memories about Food and Identity of Minorities in the
21st Century
Rossella Sorte Manchester Metropolitan University

Cultural Heritage (Session 9 Room 2.48)

Chair: Radhika Mohanram

Trauma, Cultural Heritage and Slave Tourism

Olivette Otele Bath Spa University

Religion as a Chain of Memories: A Political Reinterpretation of Christianity in the

Contemporary Hungary
Anna Vancso Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Lovespoons and their Cultural Qualities: On Becoming a Symbol of Welshness

Jakob Dittmar Malmo University, Sweden

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Parallel Sessions 1015

Day 2: Thursday 15 May

9:00 11:00

Archive, Oral History and Memory (Session 10 Room 0.31)

Chair: Chris Weedon
Breaking the Silence? The Fractures in the Memory of the British Second Generation
Merilyn Moos Independent Scholar, London

'Then I Had to Yell Fire!' A War Bride's Negotiation of her Veteran Identity
Lauren Auger University of Brighton

Rereading the Portrait and the Archive's Social Memory

Kalli Paakspuu York University

Telling Stories Of and From the Archive: Family History, Desire and Identity
AnneMarie Caroline Kramer University of Nottingham

Film and Media II (Session 11 Room 0.36)

Chair: Juan Tarancon

Postmemory as Transition: Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and Jordan's
Michael Collins (1996)
Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou University of Salford and University College Dublin

Shaping Collective Visual Memory by Rewriting Propaganda: The Repetitive Use of the Last
Film Shots of Adolf Hitler in Documentary Films
Anna Luise Kiss University of Film and Television 'Konrad Wolf', Germany

Memory over the Dislocation: How the Audiences of the Propagandist Television Serials in
the Socialist Czechoslovakia Remember Their MeaningMaking Activity Stimulated by the
Serials
Irena Reifova Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Media and Memory: Cardiff Docklands 19191939

Mari Lowe Cardiff University

Topographies of Memory (Session 12 Room 0.45)

Chair: Chris Mller
Blood and Soil: Cultural Memory and Rhetoric of Rootedness
Kuisma Korhonen University of Oulu, Finland

Mixed Memories
Bethan Harries University of Manchester

Politics of Remembrance and the Transition of Public Spaces: Vienna 19952015

Peter Pirker University of Vienna, Austria

From Ethnicity to Sacred Land: Public Memory and Identity in South Africa's Freedom Park
Pieter Botha University of South Africa

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Parallel Sessions 1014

Day 2: Thursday 15 May

9:00 11:00

Memory, the Public and Affect (Session 13 Room 2.03)

Chair: Anindya Raychaudhuri

Elastic Commemoration: Public Participation in the Past as means of Empowerment

Guy Knigstein Independent Scholar, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Queer Memorial Activism at Uckermark: From Allo to AllyIdentification

Susanne Luhmann University of Alberta, Canada

Cultural Politics of Memory in PostConflict Countries

Sirkka Ahonen University of Helsinki, Finland

Memory as a Cathartic Affect in Modern Drama Chekhov, Beckett, Pinter

Zlatka Stankova University of Sofia, Bulgaria and University College London

Writing Memory II (Session 14 Room 2.48)

Chair: Axel Goodbody

Recalling, Reframing and Recreating Memory: Polish Literature as a Medium of Cultural

Memory
Justyna Tabaszewska Jagiellonian University, Poland

Fairytales of our Past: Shifting Narrative Hegemonies of the Spanish Civil War
Amber Shields University of St Andrews

Cultural Memory and the Art of Collecting in Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence
Elvan Julia Sayarer University of Montreal, Canada

FortDa Games: Remembering and Forgetting Origins in Zadie Smith's Novel White Teeth
Beatriz Perez Zapata University of Zaragoza, Spain

Cultural Politics of Memory

Parallel Sessions 1519

Day 2: Thursday 15 May

14:00 16:00

Archeology, History, Sites of Memory (Session 15 Room 0.31)

Chair: Olivette Otele

Remembering Aspects of the Icelandic Vernacular Architecture Through Archaeology of the

Recent
Sandra Coullenot University Jean Monnet, SaintEtienne, France

Amnesia of Indian Historiography: Years of Emergency Rule

Gemma Scott Keele University

Jamal Mahjoub's Nubia

Jacqueline Jondot University of Toulouse le Mirail, France

Aboriginal Memoirs and Memory: A Stolen Generations Narrative

Justine Seran University of Edinburgh

Gendered Memory II (Session 16 Room 0.36)

Chair: Bethan Harries

The Performance of Gendered Memory

Shereen Abouelnaga Cairo University, Egypt

Komm, Frau (Come, Woman)' Polish Controversial Sculpture as a Challenge for Public
Narrative of the Second World War and a Role of the Red Army in 'Liberation' of Polish
Women
Dominika Czarnecka Independent Researcher, Torun, Poland

Disinherited Daughters: Polish PostWar Female Literature and Memory

Daria Iwona Gosek Jagiellonian University, Poland

Eleanor Roosevelt's Problematic Remembrance as First Lady: From Maryfigure to (Mock)

Subversive
Sarah Polak Leiden University, Netherlands

Writing Memory III (Session 17 Room 0.45)

Chair: Bill Bell
Archaeology and Repetition as Strategies for the Literary Reconfiguration of National
Founding Myths
Axel Goodbody University of Bath
The Place of Victimhood in Sofi Oksanen's Novel Purge
David Clarke University of Bath
Flawed Specters and Emancipated Spectators
Roger Ravet University of Aberdeen

Critical Memory Cultures in Eastern and Central European Literatures: Retrievals,

Translations, Imaginary Restitution
Dorota Kolodziejczyk Wroclaw University, Poland

Cultural Politics of Memory

Parallel Sessions 1519

Day 2: Thursday 15 May

14:00 16:00

Post War Europe (Session 18 Room 2.03)

Chair: Josh Robinson

The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting: Contested Memories in ClujNapoca (Romania)

Jakab Albert Zsolt Romania

'Your Beautiful Motherland East Prussia will be Restored to You': Narratives of Flight and
Expulsion and the Politics of Memory in the Federal Republic of Germany, 19892010
Arddun Hedydd Arwyn Aberystwyth University

Memory, Reconstruction and Interpretation of the Franco Regime: Carlton J.H. Hayes and
Emmet John Hughes Distinctive Perceptions and Thoughts
Maria Luz ArroyoVazquez National University of Distance Education, Spain

Less Than One Fifth of People in the Former Soviet Republics Recall the Collapse of the Soviet
Union: What Stands Behind the Fact?
Veronika Nourkova Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, coauthored by Norman Brown
University of Alberta, Canada

Trauma and Memory (Session 19 Room 2.48)

Chair: Caleb Sivier
Languages of Collective and Personal Memory: The Reconstruction of Vladek Spiegelman's
Memoir in MAUS
Martin UrdialesShaw University of Vigo, Spain

Narratives of Identity and Trauma in an Oppressed Ethnic Community: Contemporary

Dersimi Cultural Productions at the Intersection of Politics, Market, and Memory
lker Szen Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey

Trauma, Memory, and Alternative Futures

Jennifer Yusin Drexel University, USA

Fictional Memories and the Cultural Politics of Remembrance: The Case of E.L. Doctorow's
The Book of Daniel
Maria Ferrandez San Miguel University of Zaragoza, Spain

Cultural Politics of Memory

Parallel Sessions 2024

Day 3: Friday 16 May

9:00 11:00

City Scapes and Amnesia (Session 20 Room 0.31)

Chair: Sam Sequiera

Collective Memory and Deleted Heritage of the Migrants: Elements for a French/Welsh
Comparison
Michel Rautenberg University Jean Monnet, SaintEtienne, France

Why Has Stalin Never Left Vienna?

Elisa Kriza Germany

The Jewish Memory of Interwar Krakow in Memoirs

Izabela Suchojad Jagiellonian University, Poland

A Vanished Past? The Uses of a Historical Square in Thessaloniki

Christos Dermentzopoulos University of Ioannina, Greece and Georgia Pateridou Hellenic Open
University, Greece

Theory and Memory (Session 21 Room 0.36)

Chair: Aidan Tynan

Memory Practices: Implications of Theorizing Memory as Entangled Material Doings

Felicitas Macgilchrist Georg Eckert Institut, Germany & Alexandra Binnenkade University of Basel and
Zurich University of Teacher Education, Switzerland

The Analysis of Collective Memory as Representation of Collective Identities

Ruth Maria Mell Mannheim, Germany

The Analytics of Power and the Concept of Memory: Potentials and Critical Tensions in
Theoretical Conceptualisations
Stefanie Petschick University of Nottingham

Rembering the Future

Josh Robinson Cardiff University

Film and Media III (Session 22 Room 0.45)

Chair: Kat Deerfield

Nostalgia, Active Amnesia and Anamnesis: The Mutual Influence of Collective and Individual
Memories in Watchmen and XMen Origins: Wolverine
Maciej Sulmicki University of Warsaw, Poland

Finding Our Way Back: La Prima Angelica (Carlos Saura, 1973) and the Politics of
Remembering
Juan Tarancon University of Zaragoza, Spain

The Past and Its (Dis)contents in PostCold War Romanian Cinema

Cristina Sandru Cardiff Metropolitan University

Thatcher, the Hunger Strikes and Mediating the 1980s: Visual and Aural Representations of
the Past in Hunger
Andy Pope University of Portsmouth

Cultural Politics of Memory

Parallel Sessions 2024

Day 3: Friday 16 May

9:00 11:00

Literatures of Identity and Self (Session 23 Room 2.03)

Chair: Shereen Abouelnaga

The Limits of the Languages of Memoir: Memory and History in The Language of Men (2012)
Erica Moore University of South Wales

Belonging in Time and Space: Wittman's Journey in Tripmaster Monkey

Elise Marie Auvil University of Maryland, USA

Memory and Self in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of The Day

Assil Ghariri University of Bechar, Algeria

Subjectivity of Memory in Childhood Graphic Memoirs

Kat LombardCook University of Edinburgh

War and Memory (Session 24 Room 2.48)

Chair: Aidan Tynan

The Role of Cultural Memory in Firstperson Narratives Describing the Finnish Civil War
Andreas McKeough University of Helsinki, Finland

Emperor of Culture: Kawabata Yasunari's Role in the Erasure of Japanese Imperial Aggression,
Domestic Repression and American Hegemony
Charles Richard Cabell Toyo University, Japan

Remembered Heroes, Forgotten Compatriots: Politics on Collective Memory

Christos Bakalis University of the Aegean, Greece

World War One and the Agency of Material Memories

Barbare Schaff Gottingen University, Germany

Parallel Sessions 2529

Day 3: Friday 16 May

13:45 15:15

Memory and Social Action (Session 25 Room 0.31)

Chair: Shereen Abouelnaga
Taking the Archive to the Street: Cultivating and Mobilizing Memory in Social Movement
Archives
Susan Pell Richmond University, London

Humanism in the Autobiographies Edward Said and Nelson Mandela: Memory as Action
Jihan Zakarriya Cardiff University

Spectres of Democracy, Spectres of Memory

Radhika Mohanram Cardiff University

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Parallel Sessions 2529

Day 3: Friday 16 May

13:45 15:15

National Contexts, Class and Memory (Session 26 Room 0.36)

Chair: Josh Robinson

Local Poets, National Significance: Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost within Public Memory
Catherine Charlwood University of Warwick

Class Politics and Memorialisation in Two York Widows, Catherine Cappe and Charlotte
Smith Richardson
Kevin Binfield Murray State University, USA

Recollecting Kyffin Williams

Douglas Iwan Dafis Aberystwyth University

Testimonies and Memoires (Session 27 Room 0.45)

Chair: Chris Norris

Testimonies of the Repressed: the Historical Memory of Franchoism

Vicente Diaz Gandasegui Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

A Personal Journey through Memories of a Lunatic

Brian Machin University of Chester

False Memoir Syndrome

Sue Vice University of Sheffield

Contested Territories (Session 28 Room 2.03)

Chair: Claudio Celis
Cultural Politics of Shrines and Saints in Karnataka, India A Case of Fundamentalist Hindu
Assault on Syncretic Culture
Samuel Sequeira Cardiff University

The eyes cry bitterly, while the heart expresses joy: Memory and Emotion among the
Religious Settler Movement
Steffen Hagemann Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany

One Land, Two Narratives: Comparative Discourses of Memory and Trauma in Palestinian
and Israeli Art
Luisa Gandolfo University of Aberdeen

Migrant Memories (Session 29 Room 2.01)

Chair: Anindya Raychaudhuri
Screening and Discussion of the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory's Migrant Memories a
film (23 minutes)
The film was made as a public engagement aspect of a research project on Memories of Indian
Partition.