29 June UNIVERSITY, BUILDING 09.00 Registration and coffee (sign up for afternoon activities)

09.45 COUNCIL CHAMBER: Conference welcome, the Challenging History network

09.50 COUNCIL CHAMBER: Opening Provocation: David Anderson, Director General, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum . ‘Avoiding Challenging History’

10.05 COUNCIL CHAMBER: Keynote: Samantha Heywood, Director, Museum of World War II, Boston. ‘The challenges of challenging history in the ‘real’ world’ [Chair: Samantha Cairns]

Samantha Heywood worked at Imperial War Museums for twenty years, starting out as an education officer and, by 2015, as the director of public programmes. During this time, she led IWM’s piloting of Inspiring Learning for All and the nation-wide learning programme, Their Past Your Future; worked on the development of IWM North, and led the teams in creating the new Atrium and First World War Galleries at IWM London that opened in 2014. She has worked closely with the ambitions of central government and Lottery funders and yet has delivered thoughtful and focused programmes with their backing. She is currently working in the USA with a project to build a new museum of World War II.

10.50 Coffee PAPERS 1, CC: Difficult Objects PAPERS 2, 0.85: Re-imagining PAPERS 3, 0.86: Questioning [Chair: Joanne Sayner] commemoration professional practice [Chair: Alex Drago] [Chair: Miranda Stearn] Objects in their rightful place: the case of the potential return of ‘Being There’: an exploration of The Role of Academics in the Australian Aboriginal Objects from locative media art practices for First World War Centenary overseas museums, Julie Gough, public commemoration of the (and beyond), Amy Ryall, Artist, and Carol Cooper, National Sheffield University First World War, Maria Museum of Australia Alejandra Lujan Escalante, ‘Many considerations to Whose heritage? – Forgotten (Lancaster University), Corinna make – many needs to Egyptian objects and re-imagining Peniston-Bird (Lancaster balance’ Moral challenges identity – examples from the University); Oliver Wilkinson museum employees face regional Welsh community (Manchester Metropolitan when working with sensitive museum and the Egyptian Museum University) themes, Kathryn Pabst in Cairo, Katharina Zinn, University

of Wales: Trinity Saint David Making ‘good’ heritage, Can empathy become activism in making ‘good’ women, Alida digital engagement projects? Reimagining Nation and Migration Payson, Transcribing the Book of through object-centred Remembrance, Ffion Fielding, methodologies, Claire Sutherland, Divided by distance, united Wales for Peace and Dafydd Durham University by understanding? The art of Tudur, National Library of Wales engaging with challenging

Rethinking objects: co-production, history, Alix Powers-Jones and Commemorating challenging interpretation and social justice at Andrew McKenzie, National histories, Rebecca Nelson, WISE Amgueddfa Cymru – National Trust for Scotland

Museum Wales, Sioned Hughes and Cardiff Remembers, Rachel Elen Phillips, Amgueddfa Cymru – Silverson, Firing Line Museum of National Museum Wales the Welsh Soldier

12.30 LUNCH (0.85) Screening of Tomalah [and other films] by artist Julie Gough 13.30 PAPERS 6 (CC): The Activist PAPERS 5 (0.85): Emotional PAPERS 4 (0.86): Museum Museums [Chair: Jenny Kidd] [Chair: Amy Ryall] [Chair: Alida Payson] Screening the First World Defining the ‘Activist Museum’ Fear God: Fear Nought, Adrian War in the North West: Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher Deakes, V&A and Sara Griffiths, Editing the Home Front, The National Archives, Kew Martin Purdy and Corinna Silence is not neutral and Peniston-Bird, Lancaster objectivity does not exist, Nicole Heritage as Process at the University Deufel, Jura Consultants Foundling Museum, Rachel Emily Taylor, Sheffield Hallam Guerrilla Museum - Is it appropriate to re-imagine the University/University of the Arts transforming the Cardiff role of museums and museum London Story, Victoria Rogers, The professionals as activists? James Cardiff Story Museum Griffiths, National Holocaust Centre ‘Be yours to hold it high’ and Museum. Responsibility, Community and Re-Imagining value through Emotion in WW1 Centenary stakeholder impact in Holocaust by bullets: What Interpretation, Hanna Smyth, conservation decision- happened and how do we know? University of Oxford making, Jane Henderson and The challenges of creating a Tanya Nakamoto learning resource for schools using Encountering climate change sensitive materials and eyewitness through an immersive and testimony Rachel Donnelly, Imperial interactive installation in the War Museums museum setting, Irida Ntalla, City University London

14.45 PANEL 1 (CC): Blood-Swept Lands Workshop (0.85): Unpacking (0.86) Campfire networking and Seas of Red at the Tower of museums’ rhetorics of session London and on Tour participation [Chair: Sam Cairns] Carrie Newman, Artistic Director Megan Gooch, Tower of London, of Found Arts and PhD Candidate, Joanne Sayner, University of Cardiff University Birmingham, Jenny Kidd, Cardiff University.

15.40 Leave for off-site activities (sign up at registration) 1. ‘Refugee Wales’ at Oasis Cardiff, 2. ‘Wales for Peace’ at The 3. ‘Graveyard Voices’ a support centre for refugees and Temple of Peace performance at Cathays asylum seekers Ffion Fielding, Wales for Peace Cemetery Mari Lowe, Refugee Wales Richard J. Hand, University of The reinterpretation of the South Wales Refugee Wales is an exhibition and Temple of Peace is one of the oral history project exploring the aims of the Wales for Peace University of South Wales personal narratives of people who project, as well as the digitisation Drama brings ‘history to life’ have come to Wales as refugees and and sharing of some of the with performers enacting asylum seekers. With volunteers hidden gems in the library short dramatic scenes and and participants from Oasis Cardiff relating to Wales’s contribution monologues relating to the we have recorded oral histories, to peace. This is an opportunity stories of the people buried in made digital stories, and developed to explore the Temple and its the UK’s third largest themes to create a touring history, and to contribute to the cemetery, ranging from the exhibition. Oasis Cardiff is a development of this exciting part rich and influential, the community partner of National of the project. philanthropic and heroic to Museum Wales and the project is the profoundly tragic and funded by the HLF. emblematic.

17.45 Drinks reception at The Temple of Peace, Cardiff

Featuring performance (18.00-19.00): Electro-folk storytellers ‘Harp and a Monkey’

To mark the ongoing centenary of WWI Harp and a Monkey have created a show that challenges stereotypes of the conflict. The Great War: New Songs & Stories is an exciting performance that includes both original songs and re-workings of traditional songs, field recordings of people who lived through the war and the poignant, tragic and humorous anecdotes of a bona-fide First World War expert. The work has been supported by Arts Council England and The Western Front Association.

Conference meal at The Clink, Cardiff Prison

Sign up for the conference meal when you register online.

The cost covers a three-course meal plus coffee and a welcome cocktail at The Clink, HMP Cardiff – delivering change and staffed by prisoners. A unique dining experience, within the grounds of this Category B prison.

30 June Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales 09.00 Registration - please report to main desk in the Museum foyer

Opening of pop up exhibition in the foyer: Whitchurch Hospital Threads of History

Coffee (ORIEL SUITE)

09.30 Welcome (REARDON SMITH LECTURE THEATRE)

09.35 RSLT: Keynote: David Gunn, Artist/Producer, ‘Museums of Lies and Secrets’ [Chair: Amy Ryall]

David Gunn is an artist and producer working across the borderlines of art, education and participatory practice. Particular projects include: an interactive sound installation in a condemned community housing block in Phnom Penh (The Room); a museum exhibition showcasing actual museum objects alongside fictive histories written by local school children (Museum of Lies); live audio-visual performances created entirely from the vocal contributions of audience members (pyka_vox). His work includes commissions and projects for institutions including National Museums Wales, Tate, the Roundhouse, Opera North and more. He is currently focusing on the development of pyka, using digital creativity to unlock better learning in schools And White Noise, a multi- disciplinary combination of artistic commissions, exploratory journalism and site-specific interventions that seek to research and positively influence the processes of urban development and change in London’s White City. More at theincidental.com, wearepyka.com and whitenoise.city

10.20 Workshop (RSLT): Whitchurch Hospital Threads of History PANEL 2 (OS): Re-Imagining the [Chair: Jenny Kidd] Workhouse: Moving people from memory to action Gwawr Falconbridge and Jan Morgan, Whitchurch Hospital [Chair: Alex Drago] Historical Society and Rachelle Barlow, Cardiff University featuring a performance by Sian Cameron and Dan Perkin Andrew Gritt, Nottingham Trent University, Chris T-T, writer and music maker, Jim Grevatte, The National Trust

11.20 Coffee (Plan A: Coffee outside by the urban meadow. Plan B: Lloyd George Room)

11.40 PANEL 3 (RSLT): Object Journeys The Failure Café (CLORE Tour of ‘War’s Hell: The Battle of at the British Museum – re- LEARNING SPACE) Mametz in Art’ at National imagining participation and Museum, Cardiff cultural narrative through [Chair: Sam Cairns] community collaborations With Beth McIntyre, Curator. [Chair: Miranda Stearn] Chatham House Rules apply! (Meet in the main foyer) Kayte McSweeney, British Museum, Abira Hussein, Community Artist, Julia Ankenbrand, CDA student.

12.30 Lunch (OS)

13.30 RSLT: Keynote: Stephen Bourne, ‘Black Poppies’ [Chair: Joanne Sayner]

Stephen Bourne is one of Britain’s leading experts on Black British history. The author of fourteen books on the subject, Stephen has written for BBC History Magazine and is a regular contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The author of Mother Country – Britain’s Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45 (The History Press, 2010) and The Motherland Calls – Britain’s Black Servicemen & Women 1939-45 (The History Press, 2012), he has been shortlisted for awards such as The Voice Community Award for Literature and came runner up for The Raymond Williams Prize for Community Publishing. In 2012 Stephen was awarded a Wingate Scholarship to undertake research into Black theatre in Britain and for Black Poppies - Britain’s Black Community and The Great War (The History Press) he received the 2015 Southwark Arts Forum Award for Literature.

14.15 PAPERS 7 (RSLT): Differently PAPERS 9 (OS): Re-defining PAPERS 8 (CLS): Changing the Digital relationships Narrative [Chair: Alex Drago] [Chair: Miranda Stearn] [Chair: Alida Payson]

Telling difficult stories of Co-curating Brighton Royal The memorialisation of Bomber childbirth at the Thackray Pavilion ‘s WW1 heritage, Kevin Command: an attempt to come Medical Museum, Lauren Ryall- Bacon, Royal Pavilion and to terms with heritage Stockton, Thackray Medical Museums, Brighton & Hove dissonance, Dan Ellin, Heather Museum, Laura King and Adrian Hughes, Alessandro Pesaro Wilson, University of Leeds Challenging memories from Care: Life Story work in the Reviving connections between Re-Imagining Graveyards: Museum, Delyth Edwards, 19th century industrial Performing and Podcasting University of Leicester museums, Sandra Kemp, V&A Cardiff’s Cathays Cemetery, and Imperial College London Richard Hand, University of South Building a Museum for Britain’s Wales, Rachel Protheroe, Cardiff Refugees, Amy Dimmock, ‘Death: the human experience’: City Council Huguenot Museum curation designed to challenge, Nan Hu, Cardiff University Surprise, ambiguity and the Recognize Black Heritage and uncanny: re-imagining digital Culture, Garry Stewart, Recognize The destruction of the Italian encounters of ‘othernesss’ Auschwitz memorial in 2015, through design-driven museum Gregorio Carboni Maestri, research, Areti Galani, Abigail Université Libre de Bruxelles Durrant and Rhiannon Mason, Newcastle University

Slavery, slate… scones: The experience of an artist residency in a hated castle, Lisa Heledd Jones, Storyworks UK

15.40 Coffee in the restaurant

16.00 Lightning talks (RSLT)

Alex Drago, Aston University: Why are museums so slow to innovate? Sarah Hayward, Kingston University London: Uncovering Stories from the Normansfield Archives Alix Powers-Jones, National Trust for Scotland: Ring cycle Iwan Ellis-Roberts, National Trust / Ymddiriedoleth genedlaethol: Experiences and Places at the National Trust Julie Hughes & Sally Roberts, HLF: HLF funds challenging heritage Brianna Wyatt,Edinburgh Napier: Re-enacting tragedy? Stuart Frost, British Museum: Title TBC

16.35 Closing reflections (RSLT)

16.45- Drinks and canapés at the Firing Line Museum of the 18.30 Welsh Soldier, Cardiff Castle (drinks will be in the castle grounds if weather permits, with delegates having access to the museum also).

For anybody interested, there will be an overnight vigil in at the Welsh National War Memorial in to mark the Centenary of The Battle of the Somme. This forms part of a national programme of events.