3-5 November 2017
Doelenzaal, UvA, Singel 425, Amsterdam
Friday 3rd November 2017
Welcome Speech by Prof. James Symonds
Session one
• Cornelius Holtorf, Remembering loss: some thoughts about sustainability and resilience in heritage
• Sonia Lam-Knott, The Politics of Postcolonial Remembrance: Examining ‘Heritage’ and ‘Nostalgia’ in Hong Kong
• Krysta Ryzewski, What are you going to do about it?…You must choose, brothers, you must choose.” Resonance and Dissonance in the Archaeology of Contemporary Detroit
• Tonka Maric, From Invisibility To Authenticity: Heritage Sites In Post-Conflict Context
Coffee break
Session Two
• Jerzy Gawronski, River Amstel reflecting the city. Archaeology of the Amsterdam North/South metro.
• Laura McAtackney and Niamh Murphy, Creating ‘Future Histories’ at Kilmainham Gaol: some thoughts from an archaeologist and an artist
• Gabriel Moshenska, Buried books in history and archaeology
• Antonia Liguori and Pietro Antonelli, ‘Storying’ the unwanted legacy. Who did decide to keep or demolish the fascist symbols in Littoria/Latina?
Lunch
Session Three
• Colin Sterling, Speculative Archaeologies: Brief Histories of Future Misinterpretation
• Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė, Historical Justice, Collective Memory, and Identity Building among Lithuanian Russians
• Andrea Hepworth, Between Memory and Forgetting: Former Sites of Imprisonment in Post-Dictatorship Buenos Aires and Madrid
• Anna McWilliams, Navy Seals: inventing WWII narratives for the non-human
Coffee break
Session Four
• Timo Ylimaunu, Tuuli Koponen, and Paul R. Mullins, The Archbishop of Canterbury and ‘An Unknown sailor of the Great War’ – the British in the Finnish World War II photography
• Visa Immonen, Queer memories of urban space – A community art project in Helsinki
• Pirkko Koppinen, From Trash to National Treasure: A Tannery’s logbook and 100 Years of Finnish Independence
• Paul Graves-Brown and Hilary Orange, ‘The stars look different tonight’ Celebrity veneration and the creation of spontaneous street shrines
Reception at The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture
Saturday 4th November 2017
Coffee break
Session Five
• Jilke Golbach, Re-activating Roman Ruins: art, heritage and agency in the regeneration of industrial sites
• Sally MacLennan, Performing recognition: making Aboriginal cultural heritage visible in urban public space
• Inge Kalle-den Oudsten, The Accompanied Visit: Accessing Visitor Meanings in the Museum
• Elizabeth Marlowe, After Repatriation: Institutional History and Memory
Coffee break
Session Six
• Francesca Penoni, Architecture and memory: The Armenian religious architecture in Turkey
• Silvia Truini, Heritage as domination and the limits of archaeological imagination: a cautionary tale from Silwan/Ir David.
• Jobbe Wijnen, Battlefield De Punt: Dutch dilemmas in the archaeology of postcolonial Moluccan conflict
Lunch
Session Seven
Posters Presentation & Film Screening at Belle van Zullen hall, the University Library
Conference reception at De Brakke Grond (Nes 45, Amsterdam)
Day 3 – Sunday 5th November 2017
Session Eight
• Alessandra Spreafico, Protection of cultural heritage and intentional destructions
• Zena Kamash, “Dear Palmyra, I miss you”: understanding memory and heritage politics through the Palmyra Arch installation in Trafalgar Square
• Carolyn White, Steven Seidenberg and Myles McCallum, Italian Refugee Project: The Built Environment of Home
Goodbye speech and concluding remarks
