Commemoration, Monuments and Public Memory

Conference Speakers and Attendees outside Old Canberra House
Photographer - Rodney Love

Dates

2-4 August 2005

Convener

Dr Paul Pickering, HRC, ANU

Conference Program and Abstracts and Report

This inter-disciplinary conference brought together scholars in the burgeoning field of memory studies to explore the impact of commemorations and monuments on the cultural, political and social landscape.

Papers coveredr topics on social historians, political scientists, cultural theorists, art historians, sociologists and psychologists.

This conference was preceded by a one day Symposium on Art and Commemoration.

Themes included:

· Monuments and Commemoration as sites of political contest
· Commemoration, Monuments and trauma
· Portraiture, biography and public memory
· Monuments as sacred sites
· Monuments, public memory and national identity
· Re-enactment and commemoration

Enquiries:
Leena Messina, Programs Manager, Humanities Research Centre, ANU.
Email: Leena.Messina@anu.edu.au