New, hopefully absolutely final programme, correct as of 10/9/15.

‘Myth and Popular Memory’ Postgraduate and ECR History Conference, 11-12 September 2015

1pm – 1.40pm

Registration and tea/coffee

 1.50pm – 2.50pm

Panel 1: Writing History and the Creation of Myths

(Chaired by: Prof. Edward Higgs)

Alice Violett, University of Essex, ‘Confident with Adults, Shy of Other Children: An Historical Challenge to a Long-held Myth about Only Children’

Matilda Keynes, La Trobe University (Melbourne), ‘A Writer of the Remnants: Sven Lindqvist, Difficult Legacies, and the Educative Potential of Ethical Remembrance’

3pm – 4.20pm

Panel 2: Politics, Class and Nationalism

(Chaired by: Alice Violett)

Dion Georgiou, Queen Mary (University of London), ‘Coming down from ‘Cocaine Socialism’: Narratives of Britpop, Politics, Class, and the 1990s’

Paul Stocker, Teesside University, ‘From War Criminal to British Bulldog: The British Extreme Right and Winston Churchill, 1999-2012’

Martina Zuliani, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), ‘Nationalism and the Wartime Myth of the Nations in former Yugoslavian Countries’

4.30pm – 4.50pm

Tea/Coffee Break

5pm – 6pm

KEYNOTE:

Dr Rebecca Clifford, Swansea University

‘Popular Memory of the Holocaust in France: A People’s History’

 7pm

Conference Meal at Rice ‘N’ Spice.

 Saturday 12 September

 8.45am – 9.15am

Tea/Coffee

 9.20am – 10.20am
KEYNOTE: Dr Matt Houlbrook, University of Birmingham

‘From Peaky Blinders to the Prince of Tricksters: Cultures of Confidence and the Mythologies of 1920s and 1930s Britain’

 10.30am – 11.50pm

Panel 3: Representing and Reimagining Pre-1900s Icons, Events and Texts

(Chaired by: Dr Thomas Freeman)

Nick Crown, University of East Anglia, ‘Catholic and Protestant Representations of the Supernatural, c.1530-1600’

Edward Legon, UCL, ‘Stephen Colledge and his ‘post-memories’ of the English Revolution’

12pm – 1pm

Panel 4: Institutional Politics, Identity and Society

(Chaired by: Nicolle Watkins)

Jessica Hammett, University of Sussex, ‘Love in the Blackout? Jokes, Gossip and Moral Panics’

James Southern, Queen Mary (University of London), ‘The Mass of the British Public Think Us a Race Apart”: Myth and Identity at the British Foreign Office, 1945-1970’

1pm – 2pm

LUNCH

2.10pm – 3.50pm

Panel 5: Heritage and Commemorative Practices

(Chaired by: Joanna Crosby)

Jessica Douthwaite, University of Strathclyde, ‘Photomontage in Oral History: cutting out and collaging events to describe emotion’

Ian Kikuchi, Queen Mary (University of London), ‘IWM’s First World War Galleries and the popular memory of the First World War in Britain’

Nicolle Watkins, University of Essex, ‘Performing the Past: Emotion, Myth, and Ritual on Liberation Day in the British Channel Islands’

Mary Wills, University of Hull, ‘Remembering Slavery and Abolition: Lessons and Legacies of 2007’