School of Advanced Study,
University of London
SUMMER SCHOOL
MEMORY, EMPIRE AND TECHNOLOGY
29 JUNE-3 JULY 2010
Held at the School of Advanced
Study and organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, this Summer
School consists of a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad
range of subjects related to the relationship between memory and technology.
The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and
range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, to
photography and workshops on digital archives. These sessions will be
complemented by afternoon activities centred round London understood as
technological city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley
Kubrick Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour on the
famous Routemaster bus. This School welcomes researchers, students, artists,
archivists, conservation and heritage professionals and any others interested
in memory, technology and the industrial legacy of London.
Deadline for Applications: 30 April 2010
For more info please visit: http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.html
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Tue 29 June: FILM
AM:
Proust, planes and
telephones'
Seminar/Workshop
led by Dr Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck
College, University of London)
Film and colonial memories
Seminar
led by Prof Robert Lumley,
UCL
PM/Evening:
Patrick Keiller: The
view from the train
Plenary Lecture
chair: Dr Katia Pizzi (IGRS)
(open to the public)
Wed 30 June: ARCHIVES
AM:
The
Warburg Library
led by Dr
François Quiviger (Warburg Institute)
PM:
Visit to the Stanley
Kubrick Archives, London College of Communication, University of the Arts
led by Richard Daniels
(University of the Arts) and Dr Ricarda Vidal (IGRS)
Thu 1 July:
PHOTOGRAPHY
AM:
Writing with light
Practical photography workshop
led by Dr Junko Theresa
Mikuriya (University of Kent)
PM:
Architectural tour of
London on a Routemaster bus
led and driven by Prof Joe
Kerr (Royal College of Art)
The Archway Polytechnic
Practical workshop led by the artist Ruth Maclennan - the session
includes a presentation in Senate House and an exploratory walking tour in
Archway (North London)
Fri 2 July: MUSIC/DIGITAL
AM:
Digital memories
Seminar
led by Dr Eleanor Chiari
(Harrow School)
Analogue memories:
shellac and vinyl records
Seminar
led by Dr Richard Osborne
(Middlesex University)
PM:
The Big Smoke: Films
from a Lost London 1896-1945
Film screening
Sat 3 July:
LITERATURE/VISUAL ARTS
AM:
The British Empire on film
Seminar at Imperial War Museum,
led by Dr Richard Osborne
(Middlesex University)
Guns and the memory of
the First World War: The case of the Imperial War Museum
Seminar at Imperial War Museum
led by Dr Gabriel Koureas
(Birkbeck University of London)
PM:
London, the river,
technology and memory
walking tour
led by Prof Derek
Keene (Institute of Historical Research)
Summer School Dinner