Difficult Heritage: Making Sense of Uncomfortable Histories The Bar Convent, York 13th April 2018
Programme of Events 09.30-10.00
Registration
10.00-10.15
Welcome
10.15-11.30
Panel 1A & 1B
11.30-11.45
Break
11.45-13.05
Panel 2A & 2B
13.05-13.45
Lunch
13.45-15.00
Panel 3A, 3B & ‘Lightning Talks’
15.00–15.15
Break
15.15-16.30
Panel 4A & 4B
16.30-16.45
Break
16.45-17.45
Keynote Speaker
17.45-18.00
Closing Remarks
Panel 1A: Oral Histories and Co-Production Aoife O Connor (University of Sheffield) – Negotiating Deviant Ancestry Through Narrative Victoria Hoyle (University College London) – ‘I’m not a historical case, I’m still breathing’: Confronting the Records of Child Sexual Abuse Marie Mrvova (University of Huddersfield) – ‘Points of Memory’: Objects of Suffering and Resistance by Women Political Prisoners in Czechoslovakia 1948-1968
Panel 1B: The Difficult History of Disability Dr. Ella Leith & Dr. Svenja Wurm (Heriot-Watt University) – Hijacking the Wolf: Deaf Critiques of Audist Oppression in British Sign Language Fairy-Tale Adaptations Louise Bell (The National Archives) – What Tommy Did Next: Disability, The First World War and The National Archives 1
Dr. Alexia Moncrieff (University of Leeds) – Bureaucratisation and Personal Privacy: Tensions in the First World War Archive
Panel 2A: Conflict Dr. Melissa Nisbett & Dr. Jessica Rapsom (King’s College London) – Terrorists or Activists? Prisoners or Educators? Troubles Tourism in Northern Ireland Brenda Malone (National Museum of Ireland) – Displaying Conflict in a Decade of Commemoration – Exhibiting the Irish Wars of Independence in an Era of Rising Nationalism Michael Reeve (University of Hull) – Economies of Sacrifice: Commemorating Civilian Loss of Life During and Following the First World War Rob Page (King’s College London) – “What Did You Do in the War Daddy?” Unpopular Wars and Their Impact on Soldiering
Panel 2B: Dark Tourism: Prisons and Asylums Rina Hoshina (University of York) – Crime and Nation: Interpreting Difficult History at the Seodaemun Prison History Hall, Seoul, Korea Dr. Maryse Tennant (Canterbury Christ Church University) – Prison Heritage and the Ethics of Public Engagement Cara Dobbing (University of Leicester) – Recounting the Pauper Lunatic Experience Within the Garlands Asylum, 1862-1914 Anna Jamieson (Birkbeck University) – Dark Tourists at Bedlam: Suffering and Spectacle in Eighteenth-Century London
Panel 3A: Dead Bodies Dr. Caroline Sharples (University of Roehampton) – The Difficult Dead: Exploring Perpetrator Burials and Commemoration After the Holocaust Sarah Ashbridge (The University of Bradford) – The Weight of the Dead on the Living: Identifying Fallen Soldiers 1914-1918 Greer Dewdney (University of Sheffield) – “Whats the Difference Between Archaeology and Grave-Robbing?”: How to Use Human Skeletal Material in Engagement Contexts While Remaining Ethical, Sensitive and Academic
Panel 3B: Hidden Histories Saffron East (Trinity College Dublin) – Remembering Decolonisation in Twenty-First Century Britain
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Susanne Hakuba (Rainbow Pilgrims project) – Rainbow Pilgrims: The Rites and Passages of LGBTQI Migrants in Britain Luke Bennett (Sheffield Hallam University) – Grubbing out the Führerbunker: Ruination, Demolition and Berlin’s Difficult Subterranean Heritage
‘Lightning Talks’ Nicola Guy (University of Hull) – From Bunker to Private Art Collection: How History is Dealt with in the Sammlung Boros Collection Chris Hamill (University of Cambridge) – Troubled Legacy: The Case of Armagh Gaol Mark Butterfield (Leeds Beckett University) – Microcosms of Trauma: First World War Ambulance Trains Holly Winter (University of Warwick) – Tactical Silences and Community Resistance: The Politics of Exhibiting Looted Objects in the UK Heritage Sector Lindsay Farquharson & Dr. Olivia Lelong (Northlight Heritage) – The Great War? Digging into Discomforts Around the First World War
Panel 4A: Remembering the Formation of a Persecuting Society: The Case of England’s Medieval Jews Dean Irwin (Canterbury Christ Church University) – Remembering Blood and Fire in Twelfth Century England Chris Johnson (Independent) - The Jews in Medieval Lincoln: A Persecuted Community Toni Griffiths (University of Winchester) – How Difficult is it to Remember? The Challenges of Publicly Representing England’s Medieval Jews
Panel 4B: Slavery Dr. Hannah Young (Victoria and Albert Museum) – Hidden in Plain Sight: Collecting and Slave-Ownership at the V&A Rebecca Nelson (Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull) – Antislavery in UK Museums: From Public Memorials to Active Campaign Spaces Emily Gee (Historic England) – From Scipio Africanus to Edward Colston: Evaluating, Protecting and Managing the Heritage of Slavery in England
Keynote Speaker Dr. Jessica Moody (University of Bristol) – Difficult Heritage as a Verb? Trauma, Redemption and Action
