Art and Science Vs. Conflict in the Global Present

 

Programme

 

08:30 Registration

09:00 Opening speech by organisers

 

9:15 am - KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Dr PAUL COLLINS Jaleh Hearn Curator for Ancient Near East, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford:The discovery and destruction of Nimrud

 

Session 1 – The Consequences / Impacts of War

10:00-10:20: Fernando López Sánchez (Wolfson College, Oxford): Losers under siege: coins and countermarks of an isolated outpost of soldiers at the time of the Independence of Mexico

10:20- 10:40: Nicola Lester (Leeds Beckett University): Soldiers in Mind

10:40- 11:00: Janice Lobban (Combat Stress): Echoes of War: Art therapy and combat-related PTSD

 

11:00-11:30 BREAK

 

Session 2 – Remembrance / Storytelling

11:30-11:50: Ian Wojtowicz (Independent Artist):B'Seder: Contested histories of Polish-Jewish relations.

11:50- 12:10: Christine Brault (Independent Researcher):An insidious gender war

12:10- 12:30 Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford): The Blackest Hole of Man's Existence: Afghan poetry as anti-war discourse

12:30-13:00: Jayne Buchanan (Plymouth University): Paul Nash: Responses to War

 

13:00-14:00: LUNCH

 

14:00-14:45 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ROXANA FERLLINI (BSc MA MCSFS), Forensic Anthropologist and Author: In search of the disappeared: Context and challenges in the field

 

Session 3 - Victims in War / Recovering Identities

14:45-15:05: Veronica Cordova (Oxford Brookes University): 27, 000 Mexican people to be found. Durational Performance

15:05-15:25: Manca Bajec (Royal College of Art): What's in a name?

15:25-15:45: Nicholas Márquez-Grant (Cranfield University):Identifying the missing

 

15:45-16:15: BREAK

 

Session 4 - Transforming Conflict through Memory and Justice

16:15-16:35: Imogen Humphris (Independent Artist): Seeing across scale: art as a research method in conflict transformation

16:35-16:55: Gruia Bădescu (University of Oxford):Memorializing Victimhood: War monuments, ruins, and symbolic violence in Belgrade

16:55-17:15: Martin Dolan (Oxford Brookes University): The importance of art and design in nurturing non-violent community interaction in a post conflict context

17:15-17:35: Kara Blackmore (Independent Researcher): Making Memorial Art in Uganda: opportunities for social justice

 

17:35-18:00: CLOSING: Open discussion, questions and closing speech