image adapted from an original photo including handwritten comments by Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, CC BY-SA, available on Europeana 14-18 collections at Europeana.

Building upon Cardiff University’s new strategic partnership with Leuven University, PHOTOCONSORTIUM President prof. Fred Truyen was invited to participate in a two-day international public symposium (11-12 November 2016) on musical and artistic creation in Europe and the US during WWI.

The event brought together academics, world-class performers, secondary school children and the general public. With the additional participation of the University of Heidelberg and Brown University, this event engaged with the memorialisation of WWI from a wider perspective.

Fred’s speech, ‘Photography, Collective Memory and History: The challenges of publishing archival materials of past conflicts’, also includes reflection on the work of PHOTOCONSORTIUM for the enhancement of photographic heritage available online and on Europeana, the European digital library.

Symposium programme

International Artistic Creation during World War I:
Interdisciplinary Symposium, Reardon Smith Theatre, National Museum Cardiff,

Friday 11 November 2016

9.00                       Registration

9.15                        Welcome

9:30-11:00         Literature: Women’s Reponses to Conflict Chair: Toby Thacker, Cardiff University

9:30-10:00           ‘The Spectacle is over: Germany, Gender, and War’, Anke Gilleir, KU Leuven

10:00-10:30         ‘Witnessing War in Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth’, Ana Ashraf, KU Leuven

10.30-11:00          Coffee Break

11.00-12.20       Literature: Men’s Reponses to Conflict, Chair: Clair Rowden, Cardiff University

11:00-11:40         ‘Nudes Gibbering: Isaac Rosenberg Entrenched’, Ortwin de Graef, KU Leuven

11.40-12:20         ‘Romain Rolland and the Challenges of Pacifisms in Time of War’, Nicolas de Warren, KU Leuven

14:30-16:00      Visual Representation, Chair: Nicolas Martinez, Cardiff University

14:30-15:00         ‘Battle of the Sexes: The Gender of War and the War on Gender in Mauvais genre’, Ryan Prout, Cardiff University

15:00-15:30         ‘Truth and Tribute – Representing WWI in comics for a modern readership’, Jonathan Clode, Freelance Artist, Cardiff

15:30-16:00         ‘After the Picture … cartoon borrowings from ‘high art’, 1914-1918’, Christopher Williams, Cardiff University

16:00-16:30         Tea Break

16:00-17:30       Memory & Archive, Chair: Alan Vaughan Hughes, Cardiff University

16:30-17:00         ‘Creativity and Conflict: Student responses to WWI then and now’, Jenny Kidd & John Jewell, Cardiff University

17:00-17:30         ‘Photography, Collective Memory and History: The challenges of publishing archival materials of past conflicts’, Frederik Truyen, KU Leuven

17:30                     University of Wales Press Wine Reception

19:00                     Recital: Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) and Caroline Dowdle (piano)

 

 

Saturday 12 November 2016

9:30-10.30          Music and Identity: The British Isles,  Chair: Rachelle Barlow, AHRC Cultural Encounters Fellow

9:30-10:00           ‘Music, Healing, and Community in the English Country House During the First World War’, Michelle Meinhart, Fulbright Scholar, Durham University

10:00-10:30         ‘Telling Tales: Musical Creativity and National Identity in the Dardanelles Campaign’, John Morgan O’Connell, Cardiff University

10:30-11:00          Coffee Break

11:00-12:00       Musical Creation: An International Perspective,  Chair: Monika Hennemann, Cardiff University

11:00-11:30          ‘Bellicism versus Pacifism: European composers and the First World War’, Dorothea Redepenning, University of Heidelberg

11:30-12:00          ‘“No Man’s Land” – Composed scenes from the First World War’, Joachim Steinheuer, University of Heidelberg

13:05-14:00         Lunchtime Recital: ‘Composed Scenes from the First World War’, Iwan Llewelyn-Jones, Piano

14:15-15:40        Prisoners of War                                              

14:15-15:00         ‘Re-purposing landscapes of memory: Kriegsgefangenen in Skipton: Leben und Geschichte deutscher Kriegsgefangener in einem englischen Lager as a multi-authorial form of commemoration’, Hilary Potter, University of Leeds

15.00- 15:40        ‘Colonial Propaganda and the German Empire: Ephemeral Art from the Crescent Moon POW Camp’, Michelle Duncan, Brown University

15:40-16:00         Tea Break

16:00-17.15        Film and Cinema culture                              

16:00-16:30         ‘Cinema Cultures in Occupied Belgium during the First World War’, Leen Engelen, KU Leuven

16:30-17:10         ‘The Pianist’s Locks: On Sigmund Freud’s Military and How it Gets Confused by Female Mobs’, Suzanne Steinberg, Brown University