Thursday 6th July 2017 09:30 Registration desk open: Tea and coffee on arrival 10:30-11:00 Welcome from the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

Keynote Address: David Blockley 11:00-11:45 Reading : Structure and Meaning Keynote Address: Travis Elborough 11:45-12:30 The Tall Story of A Transatlantic Crossing: How Went to America 12:30-13:30 Lunch (1) Bridges of Taiwan followed Connecting Cultures and Stories on the Bridge by (2) Bridges as Industrial Communities Heritage 13:30-15:00

Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge

(1) SHY Gwo-Long Shu-yi WANG Yanwei Han Bridge: A Witness of Taiwanese From Segregation to Social Heritage Narratives, a Bridge Vitality Inclusion: Bridging the Difficult for Transformation, Connection 13:30-14:00 Past and Communication

Chao-Shiang Li (Patrick) Patrick Fitzgerald Ceri Houlbrook A tale of two bridges in Hutong, Across the Bridge of Hope: Unlocking the Love-Lock Taiwan. The Convergence Crossing divides in an Irish 14:00-14:30 between the industrial past and migration context the commodified present

Camilo Contreras Fredric L Quivik Hulya Sonmez Schaap People and coal. The railway Steel Bridges on the Great Plains: The Bridge as a Witness to life, bridge support and witness the Connecting the Desolate Plains Comrade to people and an 14:30-15:00 development of the coalfield with Industrial America, 1880- Essential piece of a city Coahuila, Mexico 1920

15:00-15:30 TEA Bridges as Industrial Heritage Connecting Cultures and Bridge Museums and Visitor Crossing the Ironbridge Communities Centres Gorge

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Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge Room: The Ironbridge

Crisitna Matouk Rebecca Burrow Tosh Warwick Roger White

Bridge Ojuela, 1898. Mapimí, A : Building the Bridging the World: Teesside’s Valley of Invention: Bridges 15:30-16:00 Durango, México. Astoria-Megler Bridge bridge-building heritage and the within the Ironbridge Gorge Tees Visitor Experience Project

Sanja Peter Hisham S. Gabr, Omnia H. Kevin Moore Shane Kelleher Mostafa, Yasmeen ElSemary and Nouran El-Begermy

16:00-16:30 From Älvsborg bridge to Göta The Nouveau rich and the culture The Humber Bridge: A View of the Iron Bridge river bridge, and back of fitting in: Symbols in house engineering triumph and design and the bridging of social cultural icon classes

M. William Steele Ndanji Lesetedi and Olivia Richard R. Dion Molefe New Bridges for a New Japan Development, Connecting Places The Bridge Museum: An 16:30-17:00 and Cultures in Southern Africa essential institution for our the Kazungula Bridge Project times Friday 7th July 2017 Bridges in the Urban Context Restoration and Preservation of Historical Perspectives Representations of the Bridge Bridges

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Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge

Gareth Evans & Rada Beniamino Polimeni Kayla Dettinger Anni Turnbull Djermanovic Perception of ownership of Most Preserving the Historical Bridging the Border Cities: A The Sydney Harbour Bridge: 10:00-10:30 na Adi in Belgrade Structures of Cheonggyecheon History of Windsor and its through the eyes of artists and River: A proposal for the Twentieth-Century Cross- writers restoration of the supyo Bridge Border Relationship

Claudine Deom Marcus Jecock and Lucy John Wyatt Greenlee Tony Seaton A cultural landscape of bridges TadcasterJessop Bridge in the aftermath The Bridge to Scotland: From Telford and Stephenson to 10:30-11:00 of Storm Eva, 29 December 2015. Matthew Paris and the Politics Haw's "Brooklyn Bridge": Should we mind the gap? of Mapping Imagined Bridges in Revisiting the Menai Bridges as 13th Century Britain cultural history

Ivy Maria Lim & Wu Bing Yi Fu, Hui Zhang Alastair Noble Damian J. Kulash Sheng The Bridges of Puyuan: A Look at The challenge to the conservation ‘Compleating the Union’ and On the Money: Bridge Imagery 11:00-11:30 Bridge-Building and Local of Ancient Bridges: A Lesson from the Construction of Bridges in on Coins Networks in the Town of Puyuan, the Reconstruction of Covered the Post-Culloden Highlands Zhejiang, China Bridges in Taishun, China

Furan Cao Helen Maistrou, Irene Efesiou, Bob Daimond Natsuko Akagawa Eleftheria Tsakanika, Maria Balodimou, Margarita Alexiou and Timoleon Kouimtzoglou

11:30-12:00 Research on the National The Historical Stone Bridge of The Menai Strait - Obstacle or The Bridge: embodiment of Iconographies and Cultural Plaka in Greece. Historical, Corridor? pleasure, enlightenment, guilt, Heritage Values Forged by the architectural and constructional agony and death Wuhan Yangtze Great Bridge documentation after the collapse in 2015

12:00-13:00 Lunch Bridges in the Urban Context Restoration and Preservation of Historical Perspectives Symbolism of the Bridge Medieval Stone Bridges Bridges 13:00-14:30 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge Room: Tower Bridge

Gert Jan Luijendijk Silvia Irene Arroyo Duarte Maria Balodimou William Fulton David Harrison

Amsterdam, city of bridges History, conservation and The Network of the 19th c. Bridge of Remembrance: World The Rise and Fall of the 13:00-13:30 maintenance of the colonial Stone Bridges in the Wars and Earthquakes Medieval Stone Bridge King´s bridge of Panama Mountainous area of Zagori, Epirus, North Western Greece

Constantin Canavas Judy Jones Jayashree Shamanna and Karen Astwood Bruce Watson Martina Bacarella

Misperceptions of bridges Rebuilding Elland Bridge Harrison Ave Bridge: The Life Beyond engineering Heavenly Work on Earth: 13:30-14:00 and death of a small town icon achievement: Heritage New Medieval bridge building as Zealand's recognition of why an act of piety bridges are important

Hisham S. Gabr, Aliaa AlSadaty E J Rees Jeffrey L. Beard Danielle Delon Peter McKeague and Lamiaa Shehata

Bridges in Historic Areas: The Clifton – A Tale of Three Arches: The Bridges of Trinidad and A Review of the evidence for Juxtaposition of Value and The Preservation of a Functional Grosvenor (Chester, UK); Tobago: Land of the English bridge chapels 14:00-14:30 Incongruity Heritage Bridge Union/Cabin John Hummingbird, created (Washington, DC, USA; and Steelband, Calypso and brought Adolphe (Luxembourg, LU) Carnival to London. British Iron bridges built over 100 years ago still service this multicultural nation. 14:30-15:00 Tea Bridges in the Urban Context Restoration and Preservation of World Heritage Bridges Symbolism of the Bridge Bridging the Landscape Bridges 15:00-17:00 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge Room: Tower Bridge

Ying-Li Peng Win Scutt Kate Lynch Carly Guest Antonia Koukouvelou

15:00-15:30 Urban Transformation and Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct: 'The Remembering the 'Bridge of Bridges are landscape 15:00-15:30 Bridge’s Metaphor in City Reconnecting a Medieval Fortress bridge that joins' Peace' - women's stories of infrastructure elements. A peace, solidarity and feminism method for connecting a bridge with landscape and infrastructure Cezary Bednarski Denis Gojak Krupa Rajangam Amrita Madan and Sindhuree Christopher Tallman and Iyengar John Koepke Bridge as a tool of Urban The timber truss bridges of New Looking forward, looking back: A tale of two bridges,two Gidaazhoganikemin “WE 15:30-16:00 Accupuncture South Wales, Australia – Narratives of hope and glory participates,two cities and two MAKE A BRIDGE”: conservation challenges from the bridge at Hampi World states, Bridges as landscapes of Landscape Architecture Heritage Site, India cultural and political identity Practice as Social Bridge Building

Enzo Siviero (on behald of Wojciech Eckert, Bartosz Mark Watson Joost Coté Alexander Hied and Alessandro Stocco) Michalak Christopher Tallman The Golden Horn Metro Crossing The historic steel bridge in Stany. World Heritage Bridges in Steel The Red Bridge: A bridge to Landscape Architecture as 16:00-16:30 Bridge in Istanbul: Between Heritage preservation. Changing - Types Linking Communities national liberation Bridge Between People, Development and Universal the function. Knowledge, and Place Values

Enzo Siviero (On behalf of Ian Berger and David Greenfield Mark Langridge Shi Xiuyong Soheila Hadipour Moradi Viviana Martini) and Mozhgan Hadipour Moradi The significance of the bridge in Looking inside Lennox Bridge, New Bridges in a Canadian City Symbols: Cultural Analysis Luristan Cultural Landscape: 16:30-17:00 the historic urban landscape Parramatta, New South Wales World Heritage Site – An of Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge A glance at the xcapital of among the history and future, Architect’s Perspective historical bridges in Iran metaphors and hints, dream and (Sasanian and Early Islamic vision, challenge and wit Periods)

18:00-20:00 Conference Dinner (prior booking required) Saturday 8th July 2017 Architects, Designers and The Bridge as a Metaphor Literary Representations of Stari Most and Bridges of Bridge Builders the Bridge Bosnia and Herzegovina 10:00-12:00 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge

Ana Porok Flavio Carsalade; Diomira Sian Mitchell Nermina Katkić Faria; Frederico Marinho; Paulo Siffert; Josiane Barbosa 10:00-10:30 Plečnik's Bridges in Ljubljana Building bridges through culture The Poetic Bridge in the The Symbolism of the new Old Nineteenth Century Bridge in Mostar

Dennis Wardleworth Chris Landorf Margaret Stetz Senem Kaymaz Koca and Jonathan Hale Bridges, Engineering, Bridging space, place and power Bridge Across a City, Bridge The flesh of the Mostar Bridge: 10:30-11:00 Architecture and Empire: in a mining community Across Time: The Book of New Merleau Pont's body toing and Dorman, Long and Co in the York Verse, 1917 froing on Heidegger's bridge 1920s and 30s

Graham McLaren and Kayla David Prochaska Paul Yandle Tom Gregory Rose ‘The ornament of Bristol and the Jewellery in Mykonos Bridging At the very moment the Mostari: Bridge-keepers wonder of the age’: Brunel’s Museum Culture and Tourist accident happened: Coping 11:00-11:30 Clifton Suspension Bridge and a Economics with changes in physical and Regional Design Heritage imagined landscapes along railways of the American Appalachians

Hussein Khalaf and Haluk Nick Pollard, Joseph Butler, Tonka Maric and Rafael Lopez Aktan Ruth Fuller, Bill Hewlett Guzman

11:30-12:00 Verifying Automated Prestressed Crossing The Thames At Bridges as symbols of cultural Concrete Design Software for Walton -Put together with identity: Bosnia-Herzegovina MDOT Bridge Design Standards other poetry related talks

12:00-13:00 Lunch Under the Bridge The Bridge as a Metaphor Literary Representations of Bridges that Divide the Bridge 13:00-14:30 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge

Ian Brodie Michael C. Wilson Lindy Stiebel Denise Santos and Nuno Martins Painting the Trestle: Adolescent Bridges as Corridors and Filters: Bridging the Indian Ocean: In Bridge over the Tagus: urban 13:00-13:30 Negotiation of Space and Place A Biogeographic and Ecological conversation with Lindsey transformation and social Perspective Collen, writer from Mauritius segregation

Stelios Lekakis Mervat Abdel-Nasser Daniel Strack Francesco Zavatti

Finds and uses under the bridge Hermopolis: The art of bridging When Architecture and Economic Ruin, War, of Ilissos River in Athens the world with an idea Literature Collide: Environmental Disaster, Loss of 13:30-14:00 Metaphorically enhanced bridge National Sovereignty. The Fears depiction from the River Kwai to Connected to the Oresund’s Madison County Bridge in the Twentieth Century

Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed Dominique van de Klundert Joan Buchanan Manuel Patzke

Tea, Love and Public Order: An In stereo: Connecting world Borderlands, Bridges and Bridges as barriers – the role of Ethnographic Glimpse of Tuti heritage sites via 3D visualisation Belonging: the Tamar Bridges bridges in the Yugoslav wars of 14:00-14:30 Island's Under Bridge and testimonio as a vehicle for cultural heritage succession valorisation

14:30-15:00 Tea Pedestrian Bridges and Unearthing the Bridge Literary Representations of Bridges that Divide Skywalks the Bridge 15:00-16:30 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge

Jacqueline Naismith Nigel Baker Magdalena Ozarska Paula Matiz

15:00-15:30 Pedestrian bridges, walking Crossing Sabrina: archaeology, The Rialto Bridge and the Bridge of Sighs: Bridge as a routes and placemaking: history and the bridges of the Charles Bridge in 19th Century boundary 15:00-15:30 contemporary and historical River Severn Women's Travelogues examples from New Zealand.

Irena Weber Rob Hedge Rutger Noorlander Urban fragments and heritage He carries his griefs on a Crossing the Ij river in connectivity: the case of the shoulder: Archives of construction Amsterdam: on the desirability 15:30-16:00 pedestrian Butchers’ Bridge on and collapse of a connection Ljubljanica river.

Renato Morganti, Alessandra Simon Ellis Sinah Kloß Tosone, Danilo Di Donato, Matteo Abita The short span: symbol and It's all water over the bridge: Constructions of the ‘Rich-Men- 16:00-16:30 constructive nature of steel Maintaining the flow of aqueducts Bridge’: The Berbice Bridge and footbridges in Italy as bridges its Influence on a Hindu Community in Guyana

Sunday 9th July 2017 Bridges in art, bridges as art Bridge Stories Road Bridges The Bridge as Social Space

10:00-12:00 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge

Susan Clayton Lara Slivnik Zachary Barlow, Elizabeth Dilek Darby Jamison, David Hurwitz Wordspree , spanning Hradecky Bridge: the Story of the The Impact of Bridge and Road Galata Bridge as a physical and 10:00-10:30 with bridges or words Oldest Three-Hinged Bridge Still Developments on Rural social construct in the collective in Use Communities in the United memory of Istanbul residents States (1920-1950) David McFetrich Vacharee Svamivastu Abdolazim Amirshahkarami Li Jianmin and Maliheh Mehdiabadi

Turner's British Bridges The traditional Thai three-tier The Importance of Road and Withstanding Time, Connecting 10:30-11:00 wingspread roofed bridge: An Bridge Engineering in Ancient Cultures: The Elgin Bridge in architectural structure with cultural Persia Singapore and spiritual significance

Desmond Kraege Yilong Qiu,Chen Zhou Dawn Duensing Zhang Baoxiu and Cheng Zhifen Celebrating Engineering, The research on the structure and Hawaii's Hana Belt Road: 74 Bridges' effect on the place- Commerce, Roman Emperors or construction process of Chinese bridges in 60 miles making of San Jiadian historic 11:00-11:30 French Kings? Hubert Robert’s covered Bridges -Taking covered and cultural village in Beijing Imaginary Triumphal Bridges timber in Pingnan County

Meighen Katz Trevor Hughes Eberhard Pelke Elina Manushi, Lorenc Basho, Bianka Beka

Bridges and Curves: Female A Magnet for Troubled Souls The main directions taken by Paranoia: Connecting through 11:30-12:00 artists and the fascination with road bridges in the 20th century disconnected places urban engineering

12:00-13:00 Lunch Bridges in art, bridges as art Military Bridges Bridges of Rome Digital Representations of the Bridge 13:00-14:00

Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge

Jonathan McDowell, Nye Parry Charles Laurier Catherine Hoggarth Danielle Willkens and Madi Boyd Playing the Bridge: Exploring the Bridges in Modernizing and Gathering movement and Bringing History to Life: LiDAR sonic potential of Hull's swing Militarizing Japan memory: an exploration of and digital modelling for the 13:00-13:30 bridge as a giant musical Rome's Tiber bridges. spatial reconstruction of Selma’s instrument ‘Bloody Sunday’ on the Edmund Pettus Bridge Peter Merrington Bob Clarke Alessandra, Tosone - Matteo, Jon Volkmer Abita - Danilo, Di Donato 13:30-14:00 Inhabiting the four level stack The Air Bridge The lost heritage of iron bridges A Bridge to the Past: Mapping in the Eternal City Wilson Trail

14:30-17:30 Afternoon Trips and Tours (prior booking required)

Monday 10th July 2017 Bridges in Popular Culture Ideological Spans Bridges of Peace Bridge Tourism

10:00-11:30 Room: The Ironbridge Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge

Ulf Zander Gediminas Lankauskas Andrew McClelland and Mark Coralie Acheson Boyle

The Bridges of Saturday Night The Vanishing of "Ordinary Soviet Refashioning a contested #Ironbridge - The role of the Iron 10:00-10:30 Fever People" and Socialist Forgetting historic city: the case of ‘post- Bridge in the visual on the Green Bridge of Vilnius, conflict’ Derry~Londonderry communication of tourist Lithuania narratives on social media

Paul Belford Gregory Gan Yuko Shibata Penny Grennan

Under the arches: urban life, art Burning Bridges: Ambivalent Considering Historical Chasms Was your bridge made in 10:30-11:00 and contemporary archaeology Metaphors of Russian State in Stories of Hiroshima Peace China? Power as Seen through the Bridges Symbolism of Bridges as Contentious Political Spaces. 11:00-11:30 TEA Ships, and Boats Photographic Bridge Tourism Representations of the Bridge 11:30-12:30 Room: Sydney Harbour Bridge Room: Golden Gate Bridge Room: Rialto Bridge John Laurence Busch Sean Weiss Giacomo Tabita

Steam Bridges: Revolutionary The Pont Mirabeau, Historical narration in the urban 11:30-12:00 Linkages Using the First High Photography, and Urban context. Display of an ancient Technology in History Collectivities in Third Republic useless bridge as an open-air Paris museum in Sicily.

Anne Delano Steinert Heather Braiden Soner Sahin and Dilek Darby

How Did That Ever Get There?: Construction albums and bridge Bridges as Shopping Streets: Locating the Covington-Cincinnati photography: Defining, Irgandi Bridge in Turkey Bridge in the Industrializing City protecting, and splitting the 12:00-12:30 local landscape in post- confederation Canada

Anna Mistewicz Chen Zhou The first permanent bridge over The research on the bridge Vistula river in Warsaw and its cultural tourism-Taking Chinese history seen through the eyes ZhaoZhou Bridge for example 12:30-13:00 of photographers in pictures from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

13:00-13:30 Professor Mike Robinson: Conference Closing Session Room: The Ironbridge 13:30-14:30 Lunch