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Conflict, Trauma, Memorialisation:
Material Culture, Archives, Public Space

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Exploring the challenges facing public historians as they seek to address difficult or traumatic pasts.

Date(s)
June 22, 2023 (June 23, 2023 )
Location
Various
Time
16:00 - 18:30
Price
Free
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This conference, organized in collaboration with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, brings together leading scholars and practitioners from Europe and North America to Belfast, Northern Ireland, to interrogate the challenges facing historians and museum professionals as they seek to address difficult or traumatic pasts in various contexts. 

Following three days of closed workshops focusing on three case studies—the Holocaust, the legacies of race and slavery in the US, and the Northern Ireland conflict—the speakers will reflect on the representation of these histories in museum collections, archives, oral histories and public space.

A number of travel bursaries are available to allow early career researchers to attend. For more details see here.

Deadline for registration: Friday 2 June 2023

 

Programme of Events

Thursday 22 June 2023

4:00pm Registration, tea and coffee  Peter Froggat Centre foyer
5:00pm Keynote Lecture
Prof Susan Neiman (Director, Einstein Forum, Potsdam)
Emeleus Lecture Theatre

 

Friday 23 June 2023

9:00am

Collection and Exhibition of Material Culture of Conflict and Trauma

Discussant: Dr Leonie Hannan (Queen's University Belfast)

Caroline Sturdy Colls (Staffordshire University)

William Blair (Director of Collections, National Museums NI)

Eve Rosenhaft (Liverpool University)

TBC

11:00am

Archival Collections Methodologies

Discussant: Zachary Levine (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Christine Schmidt (Wiener Holocaust Library)

Pamela Linden (Queen’s University Belfast)

Cahal McLoughlin (Queen’s University Belfast)

TBC

1:30pm

Difficult Oral Histories

Discussant: Dr Maurice Casey (Queen's University Belfast)

Stuart Aveyard (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Livi Dee (Queen’s University Belfast)

Trina Cooper-Bolam (University of Concordia)

TBC

3:15pm 

Memorials and Public Space Commemorating Conflict and Trauma

Discussant: Prof. Penny von Eschen (University of Virginia) 

Kevin Gaines (University of Virginia)

Ruth Mandel (University College London)

Laura McAtackney (University College Cork)

TBC

This conference is supported by Queen’s University’s Engaged Research Seed Fund and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Image courtesy of the United States Holocaust Museum.

Event type
Conference / Symposium
Department
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Audience
Postgraduate Students
Staff
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