[ecrea] Photomemory: commemoration, memory, archive symposium

Registration <http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/registration/> is 
now open for the COMMEMORATION, MEMORY, ARCHIVE Symposium 
<http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/symposium/> at the Attenborough 
Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex on *4^th  and 5^th 
 September 2018*. The symposium investigates commemorative and memorial 
uses of personal, non-professional images in the digital age in the 
Global South. More information is available here:

http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/

The commemorative and memorial use of personal, private images in the 
context of large-scale violence and death has a long history. Private 
images have been continually employed to access worlds that no longer 
exist, to de-anonymize, individualize or humanize victims, to identify 
murderers and the murdered, to evidence contested events and to prove 
the existence of life before death. They populate archives, memorials 
and museums, places of public protest and, increasingly, myriad regions 
of the internet.This two-day symposium at the University of Sussex aims 
to explore real and perceived changes in the relationship(s) between 
private still images and the memorialization and commemoration of mass 
violence – including trauma – with a particular focus on practices 
in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South and Central America in the 
digital age.

Keynote speakers:

·*Professor Elizabeth Edwards*, FBA (De Montfort University)

·*Professor Ludmila da Silva Catela* (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 
Córdoba Museum   of Anthropology, Archivo Provincial de la Memoria)

·*Claver Irakoze* (Rwanda Genocide Archive/Aegis Trust Rwanda)

·*Dr Gil Pasternak* (De Montfort University)


The symposium will also feature a free screening of */The Faces We Lost/ 
<https://www.faceswelostfilm.com/trailer>* (2017) –a documentary film 
about the memorial and commemorative uses of private photographs in 
Rwanda – followed by a Q&A with the director.

The symposium is free to attend but you will need to register here:

http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/registration/

*Registration closes on 27^th August.*

Below, you will find a provisional programme 
<http://www.warandmedia.org/photomemory/programme/>. Please disseminate 
this to anyone who might be interested.

Best wishes,

Piotr

*“Photomemory” symposium - provisional programme:*

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*4^th September *

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*9.00 – 10.00*– Coffee and registration

*10.00 – 10.15*– Welcome and opening remarks

*10.15 – 11.15*– Keynote address 1:

What do people want photographs to be? Some thoughts on categories, 
assumptions and theories – *Professor Elizabeth Edwards.*Chair: 
*Benedict Burbridge***

**

*11.15 – 11.30*– Break

*11.30 – 13.00*– *Panel 1:*“Private” archives and violent public pasts

**

Learning from /Los Talleres de Fotografia Social (TAFOS)/in Peru: the 
legacy of its images and for its citizen photographers – *Tiffany Fairey*

**

The battleground of wartime ,emory in Kashmir: The SB Photographic 
Archive – *Nathaniel Brunt*

**

Re-invoking the past in the present through personal archives and 
private images in Zimbabwe*– Tshuma Lungile*

*13.00 – 14.00*– Lunch break**

*14.00 – 15.00 - *Keynote address 2

The importance of victims’ images in commemorating and memorializing the 
genocide against the Tutsi. The case study of the Genocide Archive of 
Rwanda – *Claver Irakoze*

*15.00 – 16.00*- *Panel 2:*Absences, presences and ethics – private 
archive and the state**

**

Archiving in the absence of a state: civil society in Libya – *Laura 
McDonnell*

Ethics, commemoration and digital display of Biafra Civil War on social 
media*- **Olakunle Michael Folami***

*16.00 – 17.30*– Coffee break and networking

*18.00 – 19.30*– Screening of /The Faces We Lost /(2017) followed by Q&A 
with *Piotr Cieplak* and *Claver Irakoze*.

*20.30*– Conference Dinner

**

*5^th September*

*9.00 – 9.30*– Coffee

*9.30 – 11.15*– Keynote address 3

Shedding photographic light on the darkness of disappearance: An 
ethnography of collective and private rituals in the face of political 
violence in Argentina – *Prof Ludmila da Silva Catela. *Chair: *Piotr 
Cieplak*

**

*11.15 – 11.30 *- Break

*11.30 – 13.00 **Panel 3: *Evidence, ethics, authenticity and 
institutions **

Memory work, photo-elicitation and auto-ethnography:Private photographs 
of soldiers – *Stuart Griffiths (TBC)*

The ethics and agency(-ies) of digital media in prison - from Abu Ghraib 
to the prison-industrial complex: spectacle and invisibility in prison 
selfies– *Berenike Jung*

Legal fragments: Images, evidence and authenticity at the International 
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – *Benjamin Thorne*

**

*13.00 – 14.00 *– Lunch

*14.00 – 15.00*– *Panel 4:*Tensions and trajectories: re-defining 
“private” and “public”**

**

Exhuming Apartheid: Photography, Memorialisation and Erasure– *Kylie Thomas*

The itineraries and re-use of photographs in Mbouda, Cameroon – Evidence 
from the Jacques Toussele archive – *Prof David Zeitlyn***

*15.00 – 15.45*– Coffee break and networking

*15.45 – 16.45*– Keynote address 4

Online Communities Offline:Digital Heritage in the Israeli-Palestinian 
Conflict - *Gil Pasternak*

**

*16.45 – 17.00*– Closing remarks



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