Commemoration, Memory, Archive: Programme Finalised, Registration Open

Investigating commemorative and memorial uses of personal, non-professional images in the digital age in the Global South

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Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex

4^th and 5^th September 2018

Programme

4th September

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 Memory 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 Cieplakand 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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