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A reminder that registration is open for the Re-Imagining Challenging History conference, jointly hosted by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 29-30 June 2016. Details, including a detailed programme, can be found at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-imagining-challenging-history-tickets-21203366841.
If you are interested in contributing a five minute lightning presentation then please propose a title to [log in to unmask] Presentations could be provocations on the themes of the conference, short overviews of work in progress or ideas for future projects/initiatives. Lightning talk presenters will be asked not to use electronic presenting tools but may bring an artefact/object/prop with them as a prompt.
The conference programme includes keynotes/provocations from:
Samantha Heywood, Director, Museum of World War II, Boston on ‘The challenges of challenging history in the ‘real’ world’
Stephen Bourne, Scholar and Writer, on 'Black Poppies'
David Gunn, The Incidental, on ‘Museums of Lies and Secrets’
David Anderson, Director General, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
It also includes a performance from electro-funk storytellers 'Harp and A Monkey', a performance of 'Graveyard Voices', a number of off-site sessions and tours, two drinks receptions, and a three-course meal at Cardiff Prison. There are a range of high quality papers, panels and workshops, and the opportunity to network and exchange in a number of 'campfire sessions'. It will be a thought-provoking and lively few days so come and join us!
Questions we will be exploring include…
* Is it appropriate to re-imagine the role of museums and museum professionals as activists or as civil society mediators?
* How does our understanding of ‘impact’ in museums (and Universities also) frame what kind of work with challenging history is deemed viable?
* Do museums’ current methodologies need re-imagining?
* How are online-only museums free to imagine their work with challenging histories differently?
* Is there a role for gaming, play and mischief-making in work with difficult and sensitive subject matters?
* What is the role of academic research in re-imagining well-known challenging topics?
* How does all of this link into wider discussions about museums’ survival in 2016 and beyond?
The conference is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council World War One Engagement Centre: Voices of War and Peace http://www.voicesofwarandpeace.org/. Debates about Challenging History are currently being framed against the backdrop of this very high profile and ongoing commemoration. A strand of the conference will therefore be dedicated to papers that focus on the lessons that can be learned from dealing with this topic, including on the ways in which it informs, challenges or intersects with other histories.
We are offering a limited number of bursaries to cover the delegate fee, and have kept the conference fee as low as possible to ensure a diverse range of speakers and participants.
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