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Registration open for Photomemory: commemoration, memory, archive symposium at the University of Sussex, 4th and 5th September 2018.
Registration is now open
for the COMMEMORATION, MEMORY, ARCHIVE
Symposium at the
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex on 4th and 5th
September 2018. The symposium investigates commemorative and memorial uses of
personal, non-professional images in the digital age in the Global South. More
information is available here:
http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/
The commemorative and memorial use of personal, private images in the context
of large-scale violence and death has a long history. Private images have been
continually employed to access worlds that no longer exist, to de-anonymize,
individualize or humanize victims, to identify murderers and the murdered, to
evidence contested events and to prove the existence of life before death.
They populate archives, memorials and museums, places of public protest and,
increasingly, myriad regions of the internet. This two-day symposium at the
University of Sussex aims to explore real and perceived changes in the
relationship(s) between private still images and the memorialization and
commemoration of mass violence including trauma with a particular focus on
practices in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South and Central America in
the digital age.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, FBA (De Montfort University)
Professor Ludmila da Silva Catela (Universidad Nacional de Crdoba,
Crdoba Museum of Anthropology, Archivo Provincial de la Memoria)
Claver Irakoze (Rwanda Genocide Archive/Aegis Trust Rwanda)
Dr Gil Pasternak (De Montfort University)
The symposium will also feature a free screening of The Faces We
Lost (2017) a documentary film
about the memorial and commemorative uses of private photographs in Rwanda
followed by a Q&A with the director.
The symposium is free to attend but you will need to register here:
http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/registration/
Registration closes on 27th August.
Below, you will find a provisional
programme. Please
disseminate this to anyone who might be interested. I hope to see to see some
of you there!
Best wishes,
Piotr
Photomemory symposium - provisional programme:
4th September
9.00 10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00 10.15 Welcome and opening remarks
10.15 11.15 Keynote address 1:
What do people want photographs to be? Some thoughts on categories,
assumptions and theories Professor Elizabeth Edwards. Chair: Benedict
Burbridge
11.15 11.30 Break
11.30 13.00 Panel 1: Private archives and violent public pasts
Learning from Los Talleres de Fotografia Social (TAFOS) in Peru: the legacy of
its images and for its citizen photographers Tiffany Fairey
The battleground of wartime ,emory in Kashmir: The SB Photographic Archive
Nathaniel Brunt
Re-invoking the past in the present through personal archives and private
images in Zimbabwe Tshuma Lungile
13.00 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 15.00 - Keynote address 2
The importance of victims images in commemorating and memorializing the
genocide against the Tutsi. The case study of the Genocide Archive of Rwanda
Claver Irakoze
15.00 16.00 - Panel 2: Absences, presences and ethics private archive and
the state
Archiving in the absence of a state: civil society in Libya Laura McDonnell
Ethics, commemoration and digital display of Biafra Civil War on social media
- Olakunle Michael Folami
16.00 17.30 Coffee break and networking
18.00 19.30 Screening of The Faces We Lost (2017) followed by Q&A with
Piotr Cieplak and Claver Irakoze.
20.30 Conference Dinner
5th September
9.00 9.30 Coffee
9.30 11.15 Keynote address 3
Shedding photographic light on the darkness of disappearance: An ethnography
of collective and private rituals in the face of political violence in
Argentina Prof Ludmila da Silva Catela. Chair: Piotr Cieplak
11.15 11.30 - Break
11.30 13.00 Panel 3: Evidence, ethics, authenticity and institutions
Memory work, photo-elicitation and auto-ethnography: Private photographs of
soldiers Stuart Griffiths (TBC)
The ethics and agency(-ies) of digital media in prison - from Abu Ghraib to
the prison-industrial complex: spectacle and invisibility in prison selfies
Berenike Jung
Legal fragments: Images, evidence and authenticity at the International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Benjamin Thorne
13.00 14.00 Lunch
14.00 15.00 Panel 4: Tensions and trajectories: re-defining private and
public
Exhuming Apartheid: Photography, Memorialisation and Erasure Kylie Thomas
The itineraries and re-use of photographs in Mbouda, Cameroon Evidence from
the Jacques Toussele archive Prof David Zeitlyn
15.00 15.45 Coffee break and networking
15.45 16.45 Keynote address 4
Online Communities Offline: Digital Heritage in the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict - Gil Pasternak
16.45 17.00 Closing remarks
Dr Piotr Cieplak
Lecturer in Filmmaking
School of Media, Film and Music
University of Sussex
Just published: Death, Image, Memory: Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in
Photography and Documentary
Film
New film: The Faces We Lost (2017)
Recent research projects:
PI: 'Personal archives of trauma and violence. Image and memory in the digital
age Argentina and Rwanda' (British Academy/Levehulme Trust, 2016-2018)
PI: "Public deaths, private archives: image-based commemoration and
remembrance in Rwanda and the Global South' (British Academy, 2018-2019)
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for the COMMEMORATION, MEMORY, ARCHIVE
Symposium at the
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex on 4th and 5th
September 2018. The symposium investigates commemorative and memorial uses of
personal, non-professional images in the digital age in the Global South. More
information is available here:
http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/
The commemorative and memorial use of personal, private images in the context
of large-scale violence and death has a long history. Private images have been
continually employed to access worlds that no longer exist, to de-anonymize,
individualize or humanize victims, to identify murderers and the murdered, to
evidence contested events and to prove the existence of life before death.
They populate archives, memorials and museums, places of public protest and,
increasingly, myriad regions of the internet. This two-day symposium at the
University of Sussex aims to explore real and perceived changes in the
relationship(s) between private still images and the memorialization and
commemoration of mass violence including trauma with a particular focus on
practices in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South and Central America in
the digital age.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, FBA (De Montfort University)
Professor Ludmila da Silva Catela (Universidad Nacional de Crdoba,
Crdoba Museum of Anthropology, Archivo Provincial de la Memoria)
Claver Irakoze (Rwanda Genocide Archive/Aegis Trust Rwanda)
Dr Gil Pasternak (De Montfort University)
The symposium will also feature a free screening of The Faces We
Lost (2017) a documentary film
about the memorial and commemorative uses of private photographs in Rwanda
followed by a Q&A with the director.
The symposium is free to attend but you will need to register here:
http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/registration/
Registration closes on 27th August.
Below, you will find a provisional
programme. Please
disseminate this to anyone who might be interested. I hope to see to see some
of you there!
Best wishes,
Piotr
Photomemory symposium - provisional programme:
4th September
9.00 10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00 10.15 Welcome and opening remarks
10.15 11.15 Keynote address 1:
What do people want photographs to be? Some thoughts on categories,
assumptions and theories Professor Elizabeth Edwards. Chair: Benedict
Burbridge
11.15 11.30 Break
11.30 13.00 Panel 1: Private archives and violent public pasts
Learning from Los Talleres de Fotografia Social (TAFOS) in Peru: the legacy of
its images and for its citizen photographers Tiffany Fairey
The battleground of wartime ,emory in Kashmir: The SB Photographic Archive
Nathaniel Brunt
Re-invoking the past in the present through personal archives and private
images in Zimbabwe Tshuma Lungile
13.00 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 15.00 - Keynote address 2
The importance of victims images in commemorating and memorializing the
genocide against the Tutsi. The case study of the Genocide Archive of Rwanda
Claver Irakoze
15.00 16.00 - Panel 2: Absences, presences and ethics private archive and
the state
Archiving in the absence of a state: civil society in Libya Laura McDonnell
Ethics, commemoration and digital display of Biafra Civil War on social media
- Olakunle Michael Folami
16.00 17.30 Coffee break and networking
18.00 19.30 Screening of The Faces We Lost (2017) followed by Q&A with
Piotr Cieplak and Claver Irakoze.
20.30 Conference Dinner
5th September
9.00 9.30 Coffee
9.30 11.15 Keynote address 3
Shedding photographic light on the darkness of disappearance: An ethnography
of collective and private rituals in the face of political violence in
Argentina Prof Ludmila da Silva Catela. Chair: Piotr Cieplak
11.15 11.30 - Break
11.30 13.00 Panel 3: Evidence, ethics, authenticity and institutions
Memory work, photo-elicitation and auto-ethnography: Private photographs of
soldiers Stuart Griffiths (TBC)
The ethics and agency(-ies) of digital media in prison - from Abu Ghraib to
the prison-industrial complex: spectacle and invisibility in prison selfies
Berenike Jung
Legal fragments: Images, evidence and authenticity at the International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Benjamin Thorne
13.00 14.00 Lunch
14.00 15.00 Panel 4: Tensions and trajectories: re-defining private and
public
Exhuming Apartheid: Photography, Memorialisation and Erasure Kylie Thomas
The itineraries and re-use of photographs in Mbouda, Cameroon Evidence from
the Jacques Toussele archive Prof David Zeitlyn
15.00 15.45 Coffee break and networking
15.45 16.45 Keynote address 4
Online Communities Offline: Digital Heritage in the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict - Gil Pasternak
16.45 17.00 Closing remarks
Dr Piotr Cieplak
Lecturer in Filmmaking
School of Media, Film and Music
University of Sussex
Just published: Death, Image, Memory: Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in
Photography and Documentary
Film
New film: The Faces We Lost (2017)
Recent research projects:
PI: 'Personal archives of trauma and violence. Image and memory in the digital
age Argentina and Rwanda' (British Academy/Levehulme Trust, 2016-2018)
PI: "Public deaths, private archives: image-based commemoration and
remembrance in Rwanda and the Global South' (British Academy, 2018-2019)
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