Day 1 (Thursday 11 July, 2019)
09.30 Coffee and Registration
10.00 Introduction (Mirjam Brusius, GHIL and Rodney Harrison, UCL)
10.15 Keynote 1 Karen Salt: Excavating Resistance: Exploring the Ruins of History and the Marks of Injustice within the Archives
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-13.15 Session 1: The State and the Community
Chair: Indra Sengupta (GHIL)
Nancy A. Rushohora (Stellenbosch): Our Ancestors their Heroes: Contestation and Appropriation of the Majimaji War Heritage in Tanzania
Patricia Sellick, Elly Harrowell (Coventry): Contested Preservation in Susya (Palestine): Power, Asymmetry and Possibility
Mehiyar Kathem (London) in collaboration with Nasser A. Jassem (Mosul), Caroline Sandes (ICOMOS UK): The Role of state-access Infrastructures in Conceptualising Heritage post-2003 Iraq. An Examination of Mosul University Library Archives
13.15-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.45 Session 2: Counter-Archives I
Chair: Hana Morel (UCL)
Wendy Shaw (Berlin): From Preservation to Sustenance: Reengaging the Socratic Present Tense
Rishika Mukhopadhyay (Exeter): Heritage through making Practices: Engaging with the Living Craft Tradition of Chitpur Road, Kolkata
Jonathan Gardner (London), A Forgotten Archive of the Spectacular: London Mega Events and their Rubble
15.45-16.15 Coffee
16.15-17.15 Keynote 2 Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann: The Problem of Mutual Heritage Discourse: Christiansborg Castle and the Danish Transatlantic Slave Trade
18.30 Dinner (for speakers and chairs only)
Day 2 (Friday 12 July, 2019)
09.30-11.00 Session 3: Re-contextualising Photographs
Chair: Mirjam Brusius (GHIL)
Jonas Van Mulder (Leiden): The Missionary Gaze Reversed. Deconstructing the Matadi-Leopoldville Railway (1891-1899)
Heba Abd el Gawad (Cairo): “We are the children of Tut-Ankh-Amon!”: Public Discourse as Counter-archive of Heritage Practices in Egypt
Colin Sterling (London): Ruins of the World: Rethinking Heritage and Photography
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 Keynote 3 Trinidad Rico: Heritage Archives and the Unsaid: Rumor, Secrecy, and Contradiction
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Session 4: Counter-Archives II
Chair: Rodney Harrison (UCL)
Kate Hill (Lincoln): ‘Realer than History’: Bodies, Emotions and Living with Objects at the Highland Folk Museum, c. 1935-1950
Mustafa Kemal Baran (Istanbul): Labour and Local Communities in the History of Archaeology in Turkey: Archival Politics, Hybrid Methodologies, and Public Engagement
Rachel King (London): Marginal time: Scientific Cultures and Knowledge Production at the Edges of southern African History
15.00-15.30 Concluding Discussion and Comments