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Post-Conflict Landscapes

Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Landscapes panel

Professor Christiana Payne (Oxford Brookes), 'Artists and Trees in the Post-Conflict Landscape' and Ian Barnes (Head of Archaeology, National Trust), 'The Long-Term Impact of Conflict on the UK Landscape'.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Interview with Lord William Wallace

Lord William Wallace, member of the Parliament Choir, talks to Professor Kate McLoughlin about the centenary commemorations of the First World War.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Grave Stones: Panel-led Workshop 2

This workshop explored the significance of plastic commemoration, both sacred and secular, focusing on places of worship, funerary sites and sculpture, and memorial monuments.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Daniel Libeskind speaks to Niall Munro

Architect Daniel Libeskind talks to Niall Munro about civic responsibility, the shock of memory and the role of the monument as a bridge between the past and the future.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Mark Johnston speaks to Alex Donnelly

Mark Johnston talks to Alex Donnelly about the work of the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum and the importance of an arts engagement approach to commemoration in improving the well-being of veterans and their families.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Jane Potter speaks to Kate McLoughlin

Dr Jane Potter, Reader in Arts at Oxford Brookes University, talks to Kate McLoughlin about textual and material commemorative cultures and the central role of words and language in the reconstruction and renegotiation of memory.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Chrissie Steenkamp speaks to Johana Musalkova

Dr Chrissie Steenkamp talks to Johana Musalkova about community-based and nationally-driven practices of commemoration in South Africa and Northern Ireland.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Gabe Moshenska speaks to Rita Phillips

Archaeologist Dr Gabe Moshenska talks to Rita Phillips about democratic forms of commemoration and the public responsibility of researchers in empowering people to take control of their own narratives, history and heritage.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Emma Login speaks to Dahmicca Wright

Dr Emma Login talks to poet-in-residence Dahmicca Wright about Historic England's First World War Memorials Programme, 'memorial mania', and the recent shift from community-based to national forms of remembrance.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Tony Horwitz speaks to Niall Munro

Author and journalist Tony Horwitz talks to Niall Munro about the sesquicentennial commemorations of the American Civil War, the complexity of reconstruction in the American South, and re-enactment as a way of connecting with the past.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Museums and National Identity: Panel-led Workshop 1

This workshop explored the role of museums and memorial sites, drawing cross-cultural comparisons and investigating the relationship between post-war commemoration and national identity.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Interview with Harvey Whitehouse

Harvey Whitehouse, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, talks to Alex Donnelly and Johana Musalkova about shared responses to experiences of suffering and the potential role of commemoration in achieving social cohesion.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Rachel Seiffert speaks to Catherine Gilbert

Novelist Rachel Seiffert talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about the ritual of memory and the possibilities of fiction as a response to a difficult past.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Lyndsey Stonebridge speaks to Rita Phillips

Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia, talks to Rita Phillips about literary humanitarianism and the ethics of empathy.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Elleke Boehmer speaks to Kate McLoughlin

Elleke Boehmer talks to Kate McLoughlin about her most recent novel, The Shouting in the Dark, the language of reconciliation in South Africa, and the creative potential for the work of both fiction and literary criticism.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Conflict and Community: Panel-led Workshop 2

Mobilising the wide-ranging expertise of the speakers, this workshop explored questions of narrative, community and the special commemorative needs that arise in the wake of civil war and terrorism.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Poetry and Life-Writing: Panel-led Workshop 1

Bringing together experts working at the intersection of literature, human rights, foreign policy and peace initiatives, this workshop explored the role of poetry and life-writing in post-war healing.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Aminatta Forna speaks to Catherine Gilbert

Aminatta Forna OBE, author of The Devil that Danced on the Water, talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about silence, narrative and resilience in Sierra Leone.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Philippe Sands speaks to Kate McLoughlin

Philippe Sands, QC, international human rights lawyer and author of East West Street, talks to Kate McLoughlin about the law-court as a place of commemoration and what he came to understand outside the city of Lviv.
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Dunya Mikhail speaks to Alex Donnelly

Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail talks to Alex Donnelly about commemoration, reconnection and poetry as 'a museum of feeling'.

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