Whose Remembrance?: a workshop for museum professionals, community representatives and social scientists

Thursday 26 July 2012, 10.30am-4.30pm

Conference Room, IWM

Teas and coffees available from 10.15am

10.30am Welcome and introduction by Suzanne Bardgett (Head of Research, IWM)

10.35am Panel 1 Representation and interpretation I Chair: Suzanne Bardgett, Head of Research, IWM

Dr Viv Golding, University of Leicester Black identities and representation - an example of best practice at the

Clifford Pereira What my great-grandfather did: An approach to collecting, interpreting and disseminating local community narratives that cover British military history

Bryn Hyacinth, Cuming Museum Keep smiling through: Black Londoners on the Home Front 1939-1945, a Cuming Museum exhibition

Stacey Bains and Sohan Singh Cheema, The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum The Empire at War project: Fighting on all fronts

11.35am Break

11.45am Panel 2 Collecting community histories Chair: Emily Fuggle, Curator and Research Officer, IWM

Stephen Bourne For the Mother Country: writing the story of support given by the people of the African and Caribbean colonies to the British Home Front in the Second World War

Whose remembrance?: a scoping study of the available research on communities and the experiences of the peoples of Britain’s former empire during the two world wars

Renee Mussai and Dr Kim Keith, Autograph ABP Missing Chapters: Curating Britain’s diverse photographic histories

Irna Qureshi Martial races and Migration Patterns from British India

Christiana Dankwa Stumbling through the archives: A novice's attempt to characterise (and optimise) records related to the Gold Coast war effort

12.45pm Lunch (provided)

1.30pm Panel 3 Education and engagement Chair: Suzanne Bardgett, Head of Research, IWM

Peter Ashan We Were There Too: experiences in object handling with community groups

Helena Stride and Anna Lotinga, IWM My students ask me why it was called a world war?: IWM First World War teaching initiatives - what is changing and why

Jahan Mahmood Britain’s Muslim Soldiers: a project working with schoolchildren in the West Midlands

Cheryl Bowen and Sue McAlpine, Hackney Museum Experience and strategies of working with communities: Abolition 2007, Kurdish Heritage, Living under One Roof, Reggae Rebels and the East End Boxing Lives exhibition development.

Patrick Vernon, Every Generation Media ‘Speaking Out and Standing Firm': war stories and intergenerational learning

2.40pm Panel 4 Preliminary findings from our specialist researchers Chair: Suzanne Bardgett, Head of Research, IWM

Ansar Ahmed Ullah, Swadhinata Trust Exploring IWM collections: South Asian seamen

Arthur Torrington, Windrush Foundation Exploring IWM collections: British West Indies Regiments in the First World War

Ouleye Ndoye, University of Oxford Exploring IWM collections: Nigerian society in the years leading up to the Second World War

3.10pm Break

Whose remembrance?: a scoping study of the available research on communities and the experiences of the peoples of Britain’s former empire during the two world wars

3.30pm Panel 5 Representation and interpretation II Chair: Roger Smither, Research Associate, IWM

Robert Fleming, Changing Perspectives on Colonial Forces at the National Army Museum

Dominiek Dendooven, In Flanders Fields Museum Man – Culture – War . Exhibiting multicultural aspects of the First World War in Belgium

SuAndi, National Black Arts Alliance Afro Solo: Capturing the first generation experience before the second generation are gone.

Charlotte Smith, IWM North Afrikan Heroes: a study in co-curation

4.30pm End

Whose remembrance?: a scoping study of the available research on communities and the experiences of the peoples of Britain’s former empire during the two world wars