UCL, 14-16 November 2008
Friday 14th
14.00 – 14.20 OPENING Professor Stephen Shennan Director of UCL Institute of Archaeology
14.20 – 14.45 Pragmatic inclusiveness: Learning from thirty years of C20 Casework Catherine Croft Twentieth Century Society
14.45 – 15.10 The Plastic Age? Post-Modernity, Super- Modernity and the study of the contemporary past Rodney Harrison Open University
15.10 – 15.35 ‘Just gimme the top-line’: How to get CHAT on national TV and radio Rachael Kiddey People’s Republic of Stokes Croft
15.35 – 16.00 Why doesn’t Dublin’s Nigerian community care about Tara? Heritage concepts and integration policies in contemporary Ireland Tadhg O’Keeffe, Pat Cooke and Alice Feldman University College Dublin
16.00 – 16.25 BREAK
16.25 – 16.50 Liberating material heritage Elizabeth Pye UCL Institute of Archaeology
16.50 – 17.15 Heritage at home: Having a passion for the past Hilary Geoghegan Royal Holloway, University of London
17.15 – 17.40 The materiality of Nu Rave Lizzie Edwards University College Dublin
17.40 – 18.05 Justifying Chipped Fiestawares: Consumer culture of the recent past and the heritage management dilemma Jessica Merizan University of California, Berkeley
18.05 – 18.25 DISCUSSION
18.30 – 20.30 WELCOME RECEPTION
SATURDAY 15th
DESTRUCTION & DECAY
9.00 – 9.25 tbc Gabriel Moshenska UCL
9.25 – 9.50 The elephant vanishes: Documenting the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle Patrick Sutherland London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
9.50 – 10.15 Perspectives to industrial heritage: Observations on the documentation project at Hanasaari. A power plant in Helsinki Marija Kärki University of Turku, Finland
10.15 – 10.40 Revolutionary archaeology or the archaeology of revolution? The first archaeological project exploring the recent past in Iran Hassan Fazeli Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research, Tehran Ruth Young University of Leicester
10.40 – 11.10 BREAK
11.10 – 11.35 The heritage of a metaphor: Archaeological investigations of the Iron Curtain Anna Nilsson Södertörns Högskola / Baltic and Eastern European Graduate School, Stockholm
11.35 – 12.00 It’s neither pretty nor old, but it’s still somebody’s heritage: the fate of the Palace of the Republic, East Berlin Caroline Sandes UCL
12.00 – 12.25 Dark Heritage: Exploring the Transition from the Functional to the Cultural Laura McAtackney (University of Oxford)
12.25 – 12.45 DISCUSSION
12.45 – 13.45 LUNCH
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
13.45 – 14.10 Industrial archaeology is dead. Long live industrial archaeology! Cassie Newland University of Bristol
14.10 – 14.35 The last Roman road: following the A5 through 20th century England Paul Belford Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
14.35 – 15.00 Motorways and the British landscape Peter Merriman Aberystwyth University
15.00 – 15.25 The desire line: the M1 motorway in transition Matthew Walter Independent artist
15.25 – 15.45. DISCUSSION
16.30 – 18.30 LOCATION LOCATION
Stratford Art and archaeology on an Olympian Scale Emma Dwyer & Hillary Powell MoLAS & Olympic Artists Forum
West End Where the streets have no name. Pop music and heritage Paul Graves-Brown
East End Visiting and Revisiting, what is ‘the East End’? A walking tour of Spitalfields Nigel Jeffries MoLAS
Euston/King’s Cross Redundancy to Redemption: London’s mainline termini in the 21st Century Ian Richardson British Museum
South Dockers: An audio walk from Greenwich to the Millennium Dome (Self-guided)
Greenwich UCL The Compass Rose: Towards a spatial mapping of memory Katharine Fry
Bloomsbury Bombiste Bloomsbury: Traces of war and peace in an urban landscape Gabriel Moskenska UCL
Museum Mile Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970 (Self-guided) V&A
SUNDAY 16th
PLANNING HERITAGE
10.00 – 10.25 Lincoln townscape assessment – Post-war to ‘Poundbury’ David Walsh Lincoln City Council
10.25 – 10.50 Berth of a new legacy: The development of the Titanic Quarter, Belfast Mary-Cate Garden Glasgow Caledonian University
10.50 – 11.15 Sid’s Place: An historical ethnography of a Sheffield cutlery workshop Lindsey Buster University of Sheffield/IFA The ARCUS Collective
11.15 – 11.50 BREAK
11.50 – 12.15 The rectangular pit and the aquatic ape Jeremy Lake English Heritage
12.15 – 12.40 Heritage…whose is it? The case of Lakota James Dixon UWE Faculty of Creative Arts
12.40 – 13.00 DISCUSSION
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
SUNDAY pm SIGNS AND PORTENTS
14.00 – 14.25 Attitudes to heritage: interpreting the signs David Gordon UCL
14.25 – 14.50 Getting Our lines crossed Greg Bailey University of Bristol
14.50 – 15.15 The centre for land use interpretation Steven Rowell CLUI Associate Director
15.15 – 15.40 ‘TACHELES’ (From Yiddish meaning ‘to speak clearly’) & and the way this site did not live up to its name Gemma Geldert University of Bristol
15.40 – 16.00 DISCUSSION
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