[eccr] Contested Spaces: representation and the histories o f conflict

>Contested Spaces: representation and the histories of conflict
>An international conference
>Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton, 19-20 November
>2004
>
>Contested spaces conference opens up a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary
>discussion about the spaces and sites where divided histories of conflict
>are powerfully present. It engages with debates that are not only relevant
>to the academic community but also to those responsible for the management
>of historic environments, including policy-makers, heritage professionals,
>curators, political and community activists, who are acutely aware of the
>importance of the creative and critical practices of history-making to the
>processes of conflict resolution.
>
>How should the histories of conflict be recorded, represented and
>remembered? How do these histories relate to the politics of conflict
>resolution? Should the places that are bound up with conflict be preserved,
>altered and re-used or destroyed? What versions of history should be the
>subject of representation? What kinds of historical knowledge can be
>revealed and should be inscribed at sites of conflict? And, who is the work
>of representation and preservation for? Is it possible to develop and
>sustain critical practices that acknowledge historical differences?
>
>Contested spaces has been organised to coincide with the exhibition of
>Donovan Wylie's The Maze, a photographic project initiated and supported by
>the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television and Faculty of Arts
>and Architecture at the University of Brighton. The Maze will be showing at
>the University's Gallery throughout November 2004. The vacated structures of
>the Maze/Long Kesh, a prison that has been called an 'icon' of the Northern
>Ireland conflict, foregrounds questions of representing the experience and
>memory of violence, repression, occupation, conflict and the processes of
>creating peace.
>The Maze exhibition provides an important opportunity for discussion of
>these issues and for reflection upon how they are addressed by people
>working different international contexts. Contested spaces brings together
>archaeologists, artists, art historians, cultural historians, curators,
>documentary film-makers, oral historians, writers and those working in the
>field of political, international and tourism studies.
>
>Speakers
>Jim Aulich (Centre for the Study of Location, Memory and Visuality,
>Manchester Metropolitan University); Graham Dawson (School of Historical and
>Critical Studies, University of Brighton); Sean Field (The Centre for
>Popular Memory, University of Capetown); Gerd Knischewski and Ulla Spittler
>(School of Language and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth and School of
>Languages, University of Brighton); Debbie Lisle (School of Politics and
>International Studies, Queens University, Belfast); Tony Pollard
>(Archaeological Research Division, University of Glasgow);  Louise Purbrick
>(School of Historical and Critical Studies); Lauren Segal (Programme
>Director and Curator, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg) Haifa Zangana (Iraqi
>born novelist and former political prisoner).
>
>Contested spaces opens 6pm Friday 19th November with a documentary film by
>directed Cahal McLaughlin: Looking back, looking out: location, materiality,
>testimony at Long Kesh/Maze, Northern Ireland
>
>The conference continues with speakers' papers and discussion from 10.00am
>until 6.30pm Saturday 20th November with a reception in The Maze exhibition
>at the University of Brighton Gallery.
>Cost: £10/free (concessions). Places are limited and must be booked in
>advance.
>For more info and to book contact: (l.purbrick /at/ bton.ac.uk)
>
>PLEASE CIRCULATE

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