Collecting War
Trench Art and Souvenirs. Manufacture and Representation
Published on Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Abstract
Announcement
Friday 17 – Sunday 19 April 2009
Friday 17 April : Academic Programme 1
Conference Room, Town Hall, Ypres
9.30-10.00: ‘Trench Art: the material culture of conflict’. Nicholas J Saunders (University of Bristol).
10.00-10.30: ‘In search of souvenirs. The Belgian army, the Army Museum and the collecting of war memorabilia after the First World War’. Joost Vaesen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels).
10.30-11.00: ‘Trench Art in the Imperial War Museum’. Paul Cornish. (Imperial War Museum)
11.30-12.00: "Gathering information" : soldier-artists, sketchbooks and surveillance on the Western Front’. Paul Gough (University of the West of England, Bristol)
12.00-12.30: “A Peculiar Trench Art: Prisoners of war and civilians under occupation on the Western Front. “. Annette Becker (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense and Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne)
12.30-13.00: Questions and Discussion
14.00-14.30: ‘The peculiarities of French trench art’. Patrice Warin (collector & author, Paris)
14.30-15.00: ‘Greetings from the trenches” – Daily life and trench art at the South-Western-Front during WW1’. Isabelle Brandauer. (Tiroler-landesmuseen, Innsbruck)
15.00-15.15: ‘Bosnian trench art. Condition and perspectives’. Asim Donlic (Education and heritage Open network, Sarajevo)
15.30-16.00: ‘Trench Art and occupation: The Second World War in the Channel Islands’. Gilly Carr. (University of Cambridge).
16.00-16.30: ‘Iron-nail memorials of the First World War in Germany and Austria’. Hans-Christian Pust. (Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart).
16.30-17.15: Three collectors and one art dealer on collecting: James Brazier, Jane Kimball, Andrew Tonge and David Cohen.
17.15-17.45: DISCUSSION
Saturday 18 April: Academic Programme 2
Conference room, Town Hall, Ypres
10.00-11.00: Private Collections and the Origins of the In Flanders Fields Museum. Dominiek Dendooven. (In Flanders Fields Museum).
11.00-11.30: Discussion/Coffee/Closing remarks.
11.30-18.00: Tour of Café-Museums and their (Trench Art) Collections
Sunday 19 April: Public Programme
Cloth Hall - In Flanders Fields Museum (Royal Hall - Koninklijke Zaal)
11.00-12.00: Public Lecture: ‘The Lost Worlds of Trench Art’, NJS.
Practical demonstrations: Ivan Sinnaeve (Belgium), Rik Ryon (Belgium) and Nasir Jabucar (Bosnia-Hercegovina). To be confirmed: Hamad Kalaf (Quwait & Bali)
Subjects
- Representation (Main category)
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural history
- Society > Ethnology, anthropology
- Periods > Modern > Twentieth century > 1914-1918
- Zones and regions > Europe
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural identities
- Society > History > Social history
- Society > Political studies > Wars, conflicts, violence
Places
- Salle de Conférence de l'Hôtel de Ville - Musée In Flanders Fields
Ypres, Belgium
Date(s)
- Friday, April 17, 2009
- Saturday, April 18, 2009
- Sunday, April 19, 2009
Attached files
Keywords
- représentation culturelle de la guerre, artisanat de tranchée, souvenirs de guerre
Contact(s)
- Dominiek Dendooven
courriel : Stedelijke [dot] Musea [at] ieper [dot] be
Reference Urls
Information source
- Dominiek Dendooven
courriel : Stedelijke [dot] Musea [at] ieper [dot] be
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Collecting War », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, February 03, 2009, https://doi.org/10.58079/dmr