*Please bear in mind that ALL date and time indications are in GMT (UK) time.
**Current Programme subject to minor changes (last updated 18 September)
MONDAY 21st SEPTEMBER
9.30-10.00: Virtual Registration in the dedicated Slack channel
Literally introduce yourselves by posting a greeting there. (Optional for delegates on the west coast of the Atlantic).
10.00-10.15: Welcome – Richard Rex, Professor of Reformation History
Cambridge AHRC DTP Director
10.30 – 11.30 am: Morning Session
PANEL 1
Paradigm Shifts and the Forgetting of Precedent
• Gabriele Baratelli (University of Cologne). ‘Creative Forgetting: The Strange Case of the Historicity of Numbers’
• Dan Ward (University of Cambridge). ‘Lessons superseded: law, institutional memory and forgetting’
• Polina Serebriakova (University of Cambridge). ‘Remembering and forgetting precedent: transformation of political customs in the early fifteenth-century Japan’
CHAIR: Dr Lars Vinx (Law)
COORDINATOR: Panos Doudesis
PANEL 2
War, Authoritarianism and Literary Memory
• Laura Azalia Sánchez Trejo (Stockholm University). ‘‘Spider Web’ by Mariana Enríquez: The Form of the Gothic Tale as Testimony and Memory of the Oppression Against Women in Latin America’
• Mara Josi (University of Cambridge). ‘Performative Media: Literary Narratives as Forms of Recollection’
• Saman Tariq Malik (University of Oxford). ‘Becoming BIRANGONA: Post-1971 Cultures of Remembrance and Reconstructions of the Bengali War Heroine in Poetry’
CHAIR: Professor Robert Gordon (Italian Studies)
COORDINATOR: Luke Ilott
PANEL 3
Editorial Tradition between Memory and Form
• Christopher Fell (University of Oxford). ‘Shakespearean Polemics and a Forgotten Tradition: A Case Study of the First and Second Arden Series’
• Giulia Belloni (University of Oxford). ‘Georges Bataille and the concept of the formless’
CHAIR: Dr Edward Wilson-Lee (English)
COORDINATOR: Andy McCormack
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2.30 – 3.30 pm: Afternoon Session I
PANEL 4
Literacy and the Non-Verbal: Forgetting and Communication
• Bethany McPeake (The Open University). ‘‘Show and tell’ us your story: How people with learning disabilities tell personal narratives through images’
• Helen Magowan (University of Cambridge). ‘East Asian Writing: modernity, moveable type, and the unmaking of meaning’
CHAIR: Dr Laura Moretti (Japanese Studies)
COORDINATOR: Giulia Garbagni
PANEL 5
The Value of Form between Use and Aesthetic
• Noëlle Rohde (University of Oxford). ‘Form and Norm: Is Beauty a Threat to Egalitarianism?’
• Inbal Strauss (University of Oxford). ‘Form Unfollows Function: The Autonomous Work of Art as a Designed Object’
• Courtney L. Lesoon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). ‘The Forgotten Use of a Remembered Form: The Islamic Sphero-conical Vessel’
CHAIR: Dr Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy)
COORDINATOR: Claudia Hossbach
PANEL 6
Queer Memories
• Naoise Murphy (University of Cambridge). ‘Kate O’Brien: selective forgetting and queer remembering’
• Jacob Mallinson Bird (University of Oxford). ‘Voicing Queerness: Lip-syncing, Remembrance, and HIV Performance’
• Stephen Turton (University of Oxford). ‘Re-forming Margaret Raine: The Text Trajectory of an Intersex Woman on Trial in 1653’
• Merle Ingenfeld (University of Cologne). ‘Tracing an Archive of Trauma: Conversion Therapy, Memory Politics, and the Ephemeral Nature of Medical and Queer Collections’
CHAIR: Dr Caroline Gonda (English)
COORDINATOR: Andy McCormack
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4 – 5 pm: Afternoon Session II
PANEL 7
Artistic Remembrance: Forgotten Practitioners
• Dominik Eckel (University of Cologne). ‘The Other Side of Action Painting: Forms of forgotten female painters’
• Sophie Rhodes (University of Cambridge). ‘Understanding the copying practices of Peter Oliver (c. 1589–1648)’
CHAIR: Dr Christina Faraday (History of Art)
COORDINATOR: Claudia Hossbach
PANEL 8
Philosophy in All its Forms
• Arnaud Petit (University of Oxford). ‘Language, Tradition and the Possibility of Innovation’
• Ryan Haecker (University of Cambridge). ‘All That is Old is New: Forgetting in Plato, Remembering in Augustine’
• Robert Scott (University of Cambridge). ‘Hegel’s Gallery of Images: How Philosophy Recollects Itself’
CHAIR: Dr Ross Wilson (English)
COORDINATOR: Panos Doudesis
PANEL 9
Poetry: Forgetfulness and Rupture
- Jamie Fenton (University of Cambridge). ‘Herman Melville’s Forgetful Rhymes’
- Jack L Hart (University of Oxford). ‘Wordsworth’s Self-Forgetting’
CHAIR: Dr Philip Connell (English)
COORDINATOR: Luke Ilott
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5.30 – 6.30 pm: Keynote Lecture
Dr Vadim Bass, Associate Professor of Art History at the European University at St Petersburg
‘Form against Forgetting. Projects of commemoration of the Siege of Leningrad as seen by architects and the public of the 1960s: A Modernist memorial for the Classical city’
Dr Bass is the author of the book St Petersburg Neoclassical Architecture of the 1900s to 1910s as Reflected in the Mirror of Architectural Competitions: Word and Form (St Petersburg, 2010, in Russian), of about 20 published articles and conference papers and over 30 historical and critical articles in magazines incl. “NLO/New Literary Observer” (Moscow), “Hermitage Magazine“(St Petersburg), “Fashion Theory“(Moscow), “Sociology of Power” (Moscow), “STEPS” (Moscow), “Autoportret“ (Krakow), etc. Contributor to: Russia Palladiana. Palladio in Russia dal Barocco al Modernismo (2014), All the world’s a stage: Architecture and the stage design in Russia (2017), Station Russia (Venice Architecture Biennale, 2018) etc. He has also participated in about 30 Conferences (St Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Florence, Venice, Princeton, Oxford, Berlin, Cambridge, Stockholm, New York). He was also visiting professor of the Venice International University (2013 and 2019).
TUESDAY 22nd SEPTEMBER
10.30 – 11.30 am: Morning Session
PANEL 10
Myth and Utopia
• Ana Gatóo (University of Cambridge). ‘Utopia. The quest for the ideal city’
• Jack Kellam (University of Cambridge). ‘The futures we forgot? Mark Fisher, capitalist realism and hauntological utopianism’
CHAIR: Dr Michael Ramage (Architecture)
COORDINATOR: Panos Doudesis
PANEL 11
Memory, Ideals and Public Identity
• Nataša Vukelić (Stockholm University). ‘The adoption of the Water Sprite Myth in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Undine geht. A Form of Forgetting?
• Greta Colombani (University of Cambridge). ‘Memorialisation and Erasure through the Forms of Myth and Elegy in P.B. Shelley’s Adonais’
CHAIR: Dr Corinna Russell (English)
COORDINATOR: Andy McCormack
PANEL 12
Historical Memory through Photography and Monuments
• Victoria Musvik (University of Oxford). ‘Perestroika as a ‘Memory Hole’: Selective Amnesia and Affective Revival of the Perestroika and Early Nineties Experience in Russian Documentary Photography’
• Olivia Glaze (University of Oxford). ‘Unmasking Atrocity in Mozambique: Photographs of War Crimes in Jorge’s A Costa dos Murmúrios’
• Daniel Palacios González (University of Cologne). ‘Embodied monumental forms: memory practices on Spanish mass graves since 1936’
CHAIR: Professor Emma Widdis (Slavonic Studies)
COORDINATOR: Giulia Garbagni
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2.30 – 3.30 pm: Afternoon Session I
PANEL 13
Conservation and Materiality of Books
• Justine Provino (University of Cambridge). ‘The self-destructive book, a fetishized material memory’
• Delanie Linden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). ‘Writing for Fire: Denis Diderot & the Ancient Art of Eighteenth-Century France’
CHAIR: Dr Jason Scott Warren (English)
COORDINATOR: Andy McCormack
PANEL 14
National and Subnational Identities
• Natalia Volvach (Stockholm University). ‘(Re)inscribing the Crimean Tatar Nation into the Semiotic Landscape as a Way to Remember’
• Grigory Grigoryev (European University at St Petersburg). ‘Veiled by historicity: collective memory and ethnic conflicts in modern Dagestan’
CHAIR: Dr Rory Finnin (Slavonic Studies)
COORDINATOR: Luke Ilott
PANEL 15
Contingency and Memory in Music
• Leo Geyer (University of Oxford). ‘Contemporary Opera-Ballet: The Revival of the Forgotten Form’
• Victoria Roskams (University of Oxford). ‘Liszt’s Chopin and Sheppard’s Mendelssohn: Writing Composers into Collective Memory’
• Piers Connor Kennedy (University of Oxford). ‘Wilful ignorance: Work and Open Form as conduits for memorial and forgetting’
CHAIR: Dr David Trippett (Music)
COORDINATOR: Claudia Hossbach
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4 – 5 pm: Afternoon Session II
PANEL 16
Memories of War
• Horia-Gabriel Teodorescu (University of Cambridge). ‘Oblivion and Transfiguration: Fascism, culture and memory in post-war Romania’
• Evan Matsuyama (University of Oxford). ‘From ‘Yellow Peril’ to ‘Model Minority’: Memory, Narrative, and Conflict in the Shaping of Twentieth Century Japanese American History’
• Rangel Trifonov (University of Cologne). ‘The future of remembering in the postnational paradigm’
CHAIR: Dr Celia Donert (History)
COORDINATOR: Giulia Garbagni
PANEL 17
Body and Memory
- Lucy May Constantini (The Open University). ‘Subtle Winds and Spectacular Bodies: form and forgetting in the South Indian martial art kaḷarippayaṟṟ ̆
- Indrani Saha (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). ‘Braided Representations and the Performative Form of Remembering’
- Wilfredo A. Gomez (University of Cambridge). ‘Forgetting Disabled Bodies: Hip-Hop and the Practice(s) of Covering’
CHAIR: Dr David Hillman (English)
COORDINATOR: Luke Ilott
PANEL 18
Postcolonialism and Subaltern Memory
• Xuan Luo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). ‘Prefacing and Effacing: A Postscript to Spivak’s ‘Preface’ to Derrida’s Of Grammatology’
• Burrhus Njanjo (University of Cologne). ‘Kechiche’s Black Venus and the articulation of Double consciousness: From a new biopic’s form to an Aesthetic of De-cloaking’
• Saskia Kroonenberg (University of Cologne). ‘Forgetting Gramsci’
CHAIR: Dr Ian James (French)
COORDINATOR: Claudia Hossbach
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5.30 – 6.30 pm: Interactive Presentation
Gill Partington, Research Fellow at the University of Exeter
‘How to Destroy a Book’
In this presentation, Gill Partington explores the work of artists who have created by destroying books, focusing in-particular on A Humument, Tom Phillips’ unique ‘treated Victorian novel’. Beginning in 1966 with a chance purchase of an out-of-print novel in a second hand shop, Phillips has been overwriting the book’s pages for the past half-century, finding new meanings in them, through processes that raise questions about the relationship between writing, erasure, forgetting and recovering. The presentation invites the audience to put these methods into practice, using a book of their own.
(Gill Partington’s short bio: Cambridge Munby Fellow 2018-19, and is now research fellow at University of Exeter, working on the Index of Evidence Project. She has published Book Destruction (2014), edited with Adam Smyth, and is editor of Inscription – The Journal of Material Text: Theory, Practice, History, which launches this autumn. Gill’s research is about the weird things people do with the book, and its uses not just as literary artefact but as art medium, as plaything, and physical object).
WEDNESDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER
10.30 – 11.30 am: Morning Session
PANEL 19
Memory and the Form of Portraiture
• Anna Clark (University of Oxford). ‘Form and the Female Founder: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Early Modern University Portraiture’
• Maria Chukcheeva (European University at St Petersburg). ‘Dark pages in Russian history: Konstantin Flavitsky’s Princess Tarakanova and the Image of 18th-century Russia in the 1860s’
CHAIR: Professor Polly Blakesley (History of Art)
COORDINATOR: Giulia Garbagni
Panel 20
Memory and Polysensoriality
• David Cotter (University of Cambridge). ‘2020 Vision: Remembering and Reinventing Music Through Virtual Reality’ • Patrick Wright (The Open University). ‘Between the Margins: Formless Painting and the Ekphrastic Prose Poem’ • Floriane Boulc’h (University of Cologne). ‘Re-Membering: The Materiality of Loss in Lance Olsen’s Theories of Forgetting (2014) and Lance and Andi Olsen’s There’s No Place Like Time: A Novel You Can Walk Through (2015)
CHAIR: Professor John Rink (Music) COORDINATOR: Luke Ilott
PANEL 21
Urban Spaces and Collective Memory
• Olga Dobryanskaya (European University at St Petersburg). ‘Memory and Identity Issues in Cultural Heritage Preservation’
• Yiqiao Sun (University of Cambridge). ‘Film as ‘Sites of Memory’: A Cinematic Database of Everyday Practices in Beijing’s Hutong-Siheyuan Neighbourhood’
• Seren Selvin Korkmaz (Stockholm University). ‘(Re)construction of National Identity in Istanbul: Urban Design as an Institutional Act of Forgetting and Remembering’
CHAIR: Professor François Penz (Architecture)
COORDINATOR: Panos Doudesis
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2.30 – 3.30 pm: Afternoon Session I
PANEL 22
Classic Rhetoric: between Memorialisation, Damnation and Performance
• Laura Loporcaro (University of Oxford). ‘Burn Your Books or Die. Latin Rhetorical Training and the Fear of Oblivion’
• Jordan Maly-Preuss (University of Oxford). ‘Forgetting as a Form of Violence in Ancient Greek Epic’
• Martina Astrid Rodda (University of Oxford). ‘The forms and functions of change: Language variation in archaic Greek epic formulae’
CHAIR: Dr Antonia Reinke (Classics)
COORDINATOR: Giulia Garbagni
PANEL 23
Life Writing
• Alessia Pannese (University of Oxford). ‘Form and (not) forgetting: the case of opium addiction in literature and visual art’ • Nina Ellis (University of Cambridge). ‘Lucia Berlin’s Short Autofiction: Retelling to Forget
CHAIR: Dr Kasia Boddy (English)
COORDINATOR: Andy McCormack
PANEL 24
Practice Led Research: Materiality and Performance
• Thomas Metcalf (University of Oxford). ‘The (dis)solution of form: processes of pixelization in Pixelation Variations (2020)’
• Claire Wellesley-Smith (The Open University). ‘The Mangle Press: Engaging and remembering with a site-specific history’
• Claudia Navas Aparicio (University of Cologne). ‘Performative Research Methodology: Research between Arts and Sciences’
CHAIR: Professor Ian Cross (Music)
COORDINATOR: Panos Doudesis
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4 – 5 pm: ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
“Careers after an arts and humanities PhD”
Panellists:
- Dr Vadim Bass (Art History, EUSP)
- Diane Caldwell-Hird (Careers Service, Cambridge)
- Professor Diana Henderson (Literature, MIT)
- Professor Richard Rex (Divinity, Cambridge)
- Professor Andreas Speer (Philosophy, a.r.t.e.s.)
- Professor Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre (German, Stockholm)
CHAIR: Dr Alistair Swiffen (AHRC Doctoral Training Facilitator, Cambridge)
Put your questions and concerns about life following an arts and humanities PhD to your fellow delegates and a panel of senior representatives from the conference partners
5 – 5.20 pm: Concluding Remarks
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6 – 7 pm: Social Event
‘Form and Forgetting’ Quiz (Details TBC)