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29 June CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, GLAMORGAN BUILDING 09.00 Registration and Coffee (Sign up for Afternoon Activities) 29 June CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, GLAMORGAN 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 Wales. ‘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: Sam 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 in Glamorgan Coffee Shop 11.10 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 and ‘Many considerations to Whose heritage? – Forgotten Corinna Peniston-Bird (Lancaster make – many needs to Egyptian objects and re-imagining University); Oliver Wilkinson balance’ Moral challenges identity – examples from the (Manchester Metropolitan museum employees face regional Welsh community University) when working with sensitive museum and the Egyptian Museum themes, Kathryn Pabst, Vest- in Cairo, Katharina Zinn, University Can empathy become activism in Agder-museet, Kristiansand, of Wales: Trinity Saint David digital engagement projects? Norway Transcribing the Book of Reimagining Nation and Migration Remembrance, Ffion Fielding, Making ‘good’ heritage, through object-centred Wales for Peace and Dafydd making ‘good’ women, Alida methodologies, Claire Sutherland, Tudur, National Library of Wales Payson, Cardiff University Durham University Commemorating challenging Divided by distance, united Rethinking objects: co-production, histories, Rebecca Nelson, WISE by understanding? The art of interpretation and social justice at engaging with challenging Amgueddfa Cymru – National Cardiff Remembers, Rachel history, Alix Powers-Jones and Museum Wales, Sioned Hughes and Silverson, Firing Line Museum of Andrew McKenzie, National Elen Phillips, Amgueddfa Cymru – the Welsh Soldier Trust for Scotland National Museum Wales 12.30 LUNCH in Glamorgan Coffee Shop From 12.45: (0.86) Screening of Tomalah [and other films] by artist Julie Gough 13.30 PAPERS 4 (CC): The Activist PAPERS 5 (0.85): Emotional PAPERS 6 (0.86): Re- Museum Museums articulating value in the [Chair: Amy Ryall] [Chair: Alida Payson] museum [Chair: Sam Cairns] Defining the ‘Activist Museum’ Fear God: Fear Nought, Adrian Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher, Deakes, V&A and Sara Griffiths, Guerrilla Museum - Austrian Academy of Sciences / The National Archives, Kew transforming the Cardiff University of Vienna Story, Victoria Rogers, The Heritage as Process at the Cardiff Story Museum Silence is not neutral and Foundling Museum, Rachel Emily objectivity does not exist, Nicole Taylor, Sheffield Hallam Re-Imagining value through Deufel, Jura Consultants University/University of the Arts stakeholder impact in London conservation decision- Is it appropriate to re-imagine the making, Jane Henderson and role of museums and museum ‘Be yours to hold it high’ Tanya Nakamoto professionals as activists? James Responsibility, Community and Griffiths, National Holocaust Centre Emotion in WW1 Centenary _________________________ and Museum. Interpretation, Hanna Smyth, University of Oxford 30 minute screening and Holocaust by bullets: What paper: Screening the First happened and how do we know? Encountering climate change World War in the North The challenges of creating a through an immersive and West: Editing the Home learning resource for schools using interactive installation in the Front, Martin Purdy and sensitive materials and eyewitness museum setting, Irida Ntalla, City Corinna Peniston-Bird, testimony Rachel Donnelly, Imperial University London Lancaster University War Museums 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 Share your own experiences Megan Gooch, Tower of London, Carrie Newman, Artistic Director and learn from your peers. An Joanne Sayner, University of of Found Arts and PhD Candidate, opportunity to network and Birmingham, Jenny Kidd, Cardiff Cardiff University share stories in a laid back University. environment. 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. 19.30 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 EXHIBITION/DISCUSSION/PERFORMANCE PANEL 2 (OS): Re-Imagining the Workhouse: Moving (RSLT): Whitchurch Hospital Threads of History people from memory to action [Chair: Jenny Kidd] [Chair: Alex Drago] Gwawr Falconbridge and Jan Morgan, Whitchurch Andrew Gritt, Nottingham Trent University, Chris T-T, Hospital Historical Society, Elen Phillips, writer and music maker,
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