Event date:
Friday 26 October
Location:
Edinburgh Confucius Institute
Friday 26th Oct:
Memory and Memorialisation in the People's Republic of China
Edinburgh Confucius Institute, 9.30am-5pm
This one day symposium will explore new approaches to the recent history of mainland China, with an emphasis on the preservation and contestation of memory.
Panels:
Contested Pasts and Practices
- Paul Kendall (Westminster): Commemorating, Remembering and Forgetting the Third Front in Urban Guizhou
- Francesca Young Kaufman (Manchester): Absence and Ellipses in Chinese Cinema after 1989: contesting the historical narrative
- Huwy-min Lucia Liu (HKUST): Ordinary Commemoration in Contemporary Urban China
Material Culture and the Visual Archive
- Kiki Tianqi Yu (UWS): Amateur cinema, audio-visual archive and memory construction: Around China with a Movie Camera
- Zi Wang (Edinburgh): Traditional Art and Politics: Reconstruction of the Shanghai Seal World, 1949-1976
- Corey Schultz (Southampton): Commemorating Ruins and Ruined Commemorations: The Beichuan Earthquake Museum
Using the Past to Serve the Present?
- Emily Mason (Virginia): Memorializing Martyrs and Consolidating Party Identity: The 1948 Construction and Legacy of the CCP’s Northeastern Martyrs Memorial Hall in Harbin
- Helena Lopes (Oxford): Visual Fragments of a Global War: International Encounters in Films about China’s World War Two
- Tom Harper (Surrey): The Politics of China’s Past: The Utilisation and Influence of China’s Past on its Foreign Affairs and Identity
Keynote: Professor Marjorie Dryburgh, University of Sheffield
'Registers of Memory: from public to private uses of China's past'
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memory-and-memorialisation-in-the-peoples-republic-of-china-tickets-51036268854