This workshop explored the role of museums and memorial sites, drawing cross-cultural comparisons and investigating the relationship between post-war commemoration and national identity.
Museums and National Identity: Panel-led Workshop 1
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The first workshop in our Monumental Commemoration strand took place on Saturday 10 February 2018 at Oxford Brookes University. Panellists included: Mark Johnston (Director of the Australian National Veterans Art Museum (ANVAM)); Dr Emma Login (First World War Memorials Programme Manager, Historic England); Dr Christina Steenkamp (Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Change, Oxford Brookes University); Dr Gabriel Moshenska (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University College London); Tony Horwitz (journalist and author); Chair: Dr Jane Potter (Reader (Arts), Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University).
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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation is a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series running in 2017-18 at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. It brings together academics from many different fields, politicians and leading figures from cultural policy and the charitable sector. They are joined by novelists, poets, artists and musicians whose work has marked war in some way. The Series is divided into three strands - Textual, Monumental, and Aural Commemoration - and...
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