Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
By Oxford University
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Description
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 is guided by three overarching questions: Who is commemoration for and why? How does commemoration lead to reconstruction and reconciliation? What is the future of commemoration?
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CleanSusie Campbell speaks to Niall Munro | Susie Campbell talks to Niall Munro about her experience as poet-in-residence during the Post-War seminar series 2017-18. | 6 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Crack of Light: Poetry Reading | Poems of commemoration, reconstruction and reconciliation from the Post-War series' poets-in-residence. | 6 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAlex Donnelly speaks to Niall Munro | Alex Donnelly talks to Niall Munro about his work on the ecology of conflict, the interpretative role of academic research, and his interest in the 'lone voices' in poetry. | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJon Stainsby speaks to Johana Muskalova | Jon Stainsby talks to Johana Muskalova about the relationship between music and commemoration and his experience as a performer. | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnna Leese speaks to Niall Munro | Anna Leese speaks to Niall Munro about her personal connections to commemorations of war and the performance of commemorative music. | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSimon Over speaks to Rita Phillips | Conductor Simon Over talks to Rita Phillips about the performance of commemorative musical works. | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnthony Ritchie speaks to Catherine Gilbert | Composer Anthony Ritchie talks to Catherine Gilbert about the relationship between music, war and remembrance in his oratorio Gallipoli to the Somme. | 31 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInterview with Lord William Wallace | Lord William Wallace, member of the Parliament Choir, talks to Professor Kate McLoughlin about the centenary commemorations of the First World War. | 30 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJohn Dunston speaks to Kate McLoughlin | John Dunston and Kate McLoughlin explore varieties of religious silence and the relationship between silence and commemoration. | 30 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLydia Wilson speaks to Alex Donnelly | Lydia Wilson talks to Alex Donnelly about commemoration as a narrative for the future in the Middle East | 30 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMahinda Deegalle speaks to Catherine Gilbert | Mahinda Deegalle talks to Catherine Gilbert about the application of Buddhist values in post-conflict societies. | 30 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInterview with Dr Adrian Gregory | Adrian Gregory speaks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips about the role of silence in public commemoration. | 30 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJonathan Dove speaks to Kate McLoughlin | Composer Jonathan Dove talks to Kate McLoughlin about commemorating through music and music’s power to make us remember in the wake of individual and mass loss. | 18 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInterview with Dr Peter Grant | Peter Grant talks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips about the link between collective memory and popular music, exploring examples of artists who attempt to challenge dominant national narratives. | 18 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLaura Hassler speaks to Kate McLoughlin | Laura Hassler, Founding Director of Musicians without Borders, talks to Kate McLoughlin about her vision for the organisation and music’s potential in giving voice, recognition and empowerment to post-conflict communities. | 18 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRihab Azar speaks to Niall Munro | Musician Rihab Azar talks to Niall Munro about her quest to find new ways of empowering and connecting communities through music and how music functions as a ‘resistance act’ in situations of (post-)conflict. | 18 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Very Revd John Witcombe speaks to Rita Phillips | The Very Reverend John Witcombe, Dean of Coventry Cathedral, talks to Rita Phillips about the Coventry Cross of Nails and the power of such symbols in building solidarity in post-conflict societies around the world. | 24 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPfarrerin Dr Cornelia Kulawik speaks to Kate McLoughlin | Pfarrerin Dr Cornelia Kulawik, Pastor of Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Berlin-Dahlem, and Kate McLoughlin discuss changing modes of commemoration in Germany and the role of the church in reconciliation past and present. | 24 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSilke Arnold-de Simine speaks to Catherine Gilbert | Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about new forms of testimony, the limits of empathy and the need to understand processes of exclusion and dehumanisation. | 24 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCharles Gurrey speaks to Niall Munro | Sculptor and carver Charles Gurrey talks to Niall Munro about the importance of context, text and material in his design of commemorative sculptures. | 24 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDaniel Libeskind speaks to Niall Munro | Architect Daniel Libeskind talks to Niall Munro about civic responsibility, the shock of memory and the role of the monument as a bridge between the past and the future. | 28 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMark Johnston speaks to Alex Donnelly | Mark Johnston talks to Alex Donnelly about the work of the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum and the importance of an arts engagement approach to commemoration in improving the well-being of veterans and their families. | 28 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJane Potter speaks to Kate McLoughlin | Dr Jane Potter, Reader in Arts at Oxford Brookes University, talks to Kate McLoughlin about textual and material commemorative cultures and the central role of words and language in the reconstruction and renegotiation of memory. | 28 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChrissie Steenkamp speaks to Johana Musalkova | Dr Chrissie Steenkamp talks to Johana Musalkova about community-based and nationally-driven practices of commemoration in South Africa and Northern Ireland. | 28 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGabe Moshenska speaks to Rita Phillips | Archaeologist Dr Gabe Moshenska talks to Rita Phillips about democratic forms of commemoration and the public responsibility of researchers in empowering people to take control of their own narratives, history and heritage. | 28 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEmma Login speaks to Dahmicca Wright | Dr Emma Login talks to poet-in-residence Dahmicca Wright about Historic England's First World War Memorials Programme, 'memorial mania', and the recent shift from community-based to national forms of remembrance. | 28 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTony Horwitz speaks to Niall Munro | Author and journalist Tony Horwitz talks to Niall Munro about the sesquicentennial commemorations of the American Civil War, the complexity of reconstruction in the American South, and re-enactment as a way of connecting with the past. | 28 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDaniel Libeskind: Architecture and Memory | In this lecture, architect Daniel Libeskind shares his creative process and thinking for many of his most prominent buildings including the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Military History Museum in Dresden. | 26 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInterview with Harvey Whitehouse | Harvey Whitehouse, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, talks to Alex Donnelly and Johana Musalkova about shared responses to experiences of suffering and the potential role of commemoration in achieving social cohesion. | 12 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRachel Seiffert speaks to Catherine Gilbert | Novelist Rachel Seiffert talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about the ritual of memory and the possibilities of fiction as a response to a difficult past. | 8 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLyndsey Stonebridge speaks to Rita Phillips | Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia, talks to Rita Phillips about literary humanitarianism and the ethics of empathy. | 8 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanElleke Boehmer speaks to Kate McLoughlin | Elleke Boehmer talks to Kate McLoughlin about her most recent novel, The Shouting in the Dark, the language of reconciliation in South Africa, and the creative potential for the work of both fiction and literary criticism. | 8 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInterview with Lord John Alderdice | Lord John Alderdice (Liberal Democrat peer and Director of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (CRIC)) talks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips. | 20 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJeremy Treglown speaks to Alex Donnelly | Professor Jeremy Treglown and Alex Donnelly discuss the politics of commemoration and the challenges of remembrance for both veterans and civilians. | 21 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDunya Mikhail speaks to Alex Donnelly | Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail talks to Alex Donnelly about commemoration, reconnection and poetry as 'a museum of feeling'. | 21 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPhilippe Sands speaks to Kate McLoughlin | Philippe Sands, QC, international human rights lawyer and author of East West Street, talks to Kate McLoughlin about the law-court as a place of commemoration and what he came to understand outside the city of Lviv. | 21 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAminatta Forna speaks to Catherine Gilbert | Aminatta Forna OBE, author of The Devil that Danced on the Water, talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about silence, narrative and resilience in Sierra Leone. | 21 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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