29-30 June 2016 #challhist

29 June University, Building

09.00 Registration and coffee

10.00 Conference welcome, the Challenging History network

10.15 Keynote: Samantha Heywood, Director, Museum of World War II, Boston. ‘The challenges of challenging history in the ‘real’ world’

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. 11.00 Difficult Objects Questioning professional practice The Activist Museum

Objects in their rightful place: the case of the ‘Many considerations to make – many needs Defining the ‘Activist Museum’ Jennie potential return of Australian Aboriginal to balance’ Moral challenges museum Carvill Schellenbacher Objects from overseas museums, Julie Gough, employees face when working with Artist, and Carol Cooper, National Museum of sensitive themes, Kathryn Pabst Silence is not neutral and objectivity does Australia not exist, Niceol Deufel, Jura Consultants Making ‘good’ heritage, making ‘good’ Whose heritage? – Forgotten Egyptian objects women, Alida Payson, Is it appropriate to re-imagine the role of and re-imagining identity – examples from the museums and museum professionals as regional Welsh community museum and the Divided by distance, united by activists?, James Griffiths, National Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Katharina Zinn, understanding? The art of engaging with Holocaust Centre and Museum. University of : Trinity Saint David challenging history, Alix Powers-Jones and Andrew McKenzie, National Trust for Holocaust by bullets: What happened and Re-Imagining value through stakeholder Scotland how do we know? The challenges of impact in conservation decision-making, Jane creating a learning resource for schools Henderson and Tanya Nakamoto The Role of Academics in the WWI using sensitive materials and eyewitness Centenary Amy Ryall, Sheffield University testimony Rachel Donnelly, Imperial War Reimagining Nation and Migration through Museums object-centred methodologies, Claire Sutherland

12.20 Lunch including coffee

13.20 Emotional Museums Re-imagining commemoration Workshop:

Fear God: Fear Nought, Adrian Deakes, ‘Being There’: an exploration of locative media Unpacking museums’ rhetorics of V&A and Sara Griffiths, The National art practices for public commemoration of the participation, Carrie Westwater, Cardiff Archives, Kew First World War, Maria Alejandra Lujan Escalante, University

(Lancaster University), Corinna Peniston-Bird Heritage as Process at the Foundling Museum, Rachel Emily Taylor, Sheffield (Lancaster University); Oliver Wilkinson Hallam University/University of the Arts (Manchester Metropolitan University) London ‘Can empathy become activism in digital ‘Be yours to hold it high’ Responsibility, engagement projects? Transcribing the Book of Community and Emotion in WW1 Remembrance, Ffion Fielding, Wales for Peace Centenary Interpretation, Hanna Smyth, University of Oxford Commemorating challenging histories, Rebecca Nelson, WISE Encountering climate change through an immersive and interactive installation in Cardiff Remembers, Rachel Silverson, Firing Line the museum setting, Irida Ntalla, City Museum of the Welsh Soldier University London 14.40 PANEL: Revisiting Marshall McLuhan’s ‘the medium is the Campfire session message’ in exploring museums as activists and civil society mediators, Lorraine Dennis, Queens University Belfast

15.45 Leave for off-site activities (sign up at registration) 1. ‘Cardiff Remembers’ walk around the City Centre 2. ‘Refugee Wales’ at Oasis Cardiff, a support centre for refugees and asylum seekers Blurb TBC Lead: Emma Routley, Cardiff Remembers Refugee Wales is an exhibition and oral history project exploring the personal narratives of people who have come to Wales as refugees and asylum seekers. With volunteers and participants from Oasis Cardiff we have recorded oral histories, made digital stories, and developed themes to create a touring exhibition. Oasis Cardiff is a community partner of National Museum Wales and the project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Lead: Mari Lowe, Refugee Wales

3. ‘Wales for Peace’ at The Temple of Peace 4. ‘Graveyard Voices’ performance at

The reinterpretation of the Temple of Peace is one of the aims of University of South Wales Drama brings ‘history to life’ with performers the Wales for Peace project, as well as the digitisation and enacting short dramatic scenes and monologues relating to the stories of sharing of some of the hidden gems in the library relating to the people buried in the UK’s third largest cemetery, ranging from the Wales’s contribution to peace. This is an opportunity to explore rich and influential, the philanthropic and heroic to the profoundly tragic the Temple and it’s history, and to contribute to the and emblematic. development of this exciting part of the project. Lead: Richard J. Hand, University of South Wales Lead: Ffion Fielding, Wales for Peace

17.45 Reception at The Temple of Peace, Cardiff

Performance: Electro-funk storytellers ‘Harp and a Monkey’ followed by drinks

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.

20.00 Conference meal at The Clink, Cardiff Prison

Sign up for the conference meal when you register.

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 and coffee

09.45 Welcome

10.15 Keynote: David Gunn, The Incidental, ‘Museums of Lies and Secrets’

11.00 Differently Digital Changing the Narrative Re-defining relationships

Telling difficult stories of childbirth at the The memorialisation of Bomber Command: Co-curating Brighton Royal Pavilion ‘s Thackray Medical Museum, Lauren Ryall- an attempt to come to terms with heritage WW1 heritage, Kevin Bacon and Jody East, Stockton, Thackray Medical Museum, Laura dissonance, Dan Ellin, Heather Hghes, Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & King and Adrian Wilson, University of Leeds Alessandroo Pesaro Hove

Re-Imagining Graveyards: Performing and Reviving connections between 19th century Challenging memories from Care: Life Podcasting Cardiff’s Cathays Cemetery, industrial museums, Sandra Kemp, V&A and Story work in the Museum, Delyth Richard Hand, University of South Wales, Imperial College London Edwards, University of Leicester Rachel Protheroe, Cardiff City Council ‘Death: the human experience’: curation Object Journeys at the British Museum – Surprise, ambiguity and the uncanny: re- designed to challenge, Nan Hu, Cardiff re-imagining participation and cultural imagining digital encounters of ‘othernesss’ University narrative through community through design-driven museum research, Areti collaborations, Kate McSweeney, British Galani, Abigail Durrant and Rhiannon Mason, The destruction of the Italian Auschwitz Museum Newcastle University memorial in 2015, Gregorio Carboni Maestri, Université Libre de Bruxelles Building a Museum for Britain’s Refugees, Amy Dimmock, Huguenot Museum

12.20 Lunch Campfire session

13.30 Keynote: Stephen Bourne, ‘Black Poppies’

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, PANEL: Re-Imagining the Workhouse: PANEL: Blood-Swept Lands and Seas of Red at Tour (TBC) Moving people from memory to action. Jim the Tower of London and on Tour, Megan Gooch, Grevatte, The National Trust (plus co- Tower of London, Joanne Sayner, University of presenters TBC) Birmingham, Jenny Kidd, Cardiff University.

15.30 Closing statements… with a surprise or two…

16.15 – Drinks at the Firing Line Museum of the Welsh Soldier, Cardiff Castle 18.30

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 part of a national programme of events.

Accommodation information please note these are not endorsements, we would encourage you to fully research your options before booking

Budget options

Travelodge (from £33 per night) Ibis (from £32) The Big Sleep (from £41 currently with additional 15%off) Camping: Cardiff Camping Park at Pontcanna fields which is in the centre of town and very well located for the University, the Museum and other sites of interest – from £27 per night Airbnb: there are many options in the city centre from £28. Please familiarise yourself with the sites guidelines and recommendations

Mid-price Premier Inn (from £60)