[ecrea] Re-Imagining Challenging History

Re-Imagining Challenging History 29-30 June, Cardiff

We are very pleased to announce that the programme and registration are 
now live for the above event.

Programme: https://challenginghistorynetwork.wordpress.com/2016-conference/
Registration: 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/re-imagining-challenging-history-tickets-21203366841 


The conference, jointly hosted by Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales 
and Cardiff University, will explore how cultural practitioners are 
working in innovative and responsive ways with difficult and sensitive 
heritages/themes. This is a time of unprecedented change, pressure and 
evolution for museums and their continued investment of resources in 
this area is not assured. The conference will directly address these 
contexts, and suggest imaginative responses to them, helping delegates 
to explore why and how challenging histories maintain their relevance.

The conference programme includes keynotes 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’

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 lined up, 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! Full registration is £65 (excluding 
conference dinner), and student registration is £45.

We are offering a limited number of bursaries to cover the delegate fee, 
if you think you should qualify for one then please contact 
(kiddjc2 /at/ cardiff.ac.uk).

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.

Conference sub-themes include:

*Re-imagining … commemoration: WW1 and beyond
*Re-imagining … space for challenging history
*Re-imagining … participation | experience | engagement
*Re-imagining … authenticity
*Re-imagining … digital
*Re-imagining … the political dimensions of museums’ work
*Re-imagining … relationships | audiences | visitors
*Re-imagining … empathy
*Re-imagining … silence
*Re-imagining … value
*Re-imagining … social justice

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