Friday, 2 September 2011
9.00 Welcome and Introduction (Dominik Geppert, University of Bonn, and Frank Lorenz Müller, University of St Andrews)
9.30 Keynote lecture: “Forgive and forget”? – Colonialism in Collective Memory: European and African perspectives (Winfried Speitkamp, University of Kassel)
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Panel 1: Monuments (chair: Bernhard Struck, University of St Andrews)
(i) Contesting Power: Contesting Memories. The Memorial Obelisk at Koregaon Bheema (Shradda Kumbhojkar, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth)
(ii) The Thirteen Martyrs of Arad: A Monumental History (James Koranyi, University of St Andrews)
(iii) Monuments, Memorials and their Visibility within Newly Established Colonial Rules in Post-Mutiny British India and of Post-Conquest French Algeria (Xavier Guégan, University of Newcastle)
12.30 Lunch Break
1.30 Panel 2: Heroes and Villains (chair: Conan Fischer, University of St Andrews)
(i) “Winning an Empire” – Lord Clive and the Invention of an Imperial Founding-Myth of the British Empire (Richard Goebelt, Berlin)
(ii) Freedom Fighter or Anti-Tsarist Rebel? Imam Shamil and Imperial Memory in Russia (Stefan Creuzberger, University of Potsdam)
(iii) The Making of the ‘Hero of Fashoda’ and the ‘Sudan Machine’: Metropolitan Celebrations of Marchand and Kitchener (Berny Sèbe, University of Birmingham)
3.00 Coffee Break
3.15 Panel 3: Trauma, Defeat and Loss (chair: Stephen Tyre, University of St Andrews)
(i) "Waterberg Day" versus "Ohamakari Day": How German-Speaking and Herero-Speaking Namibians Commemorate the Colonial War of 1904 (Larissa Förster, University of Cologne)
(ii) Love Statues: De-Construction of Japanese Imperial Monuments to War (Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge)
(iii) Being the “Best” Victim: Placing Pied-Noir Trauma in a Transnational Context (Claire Eldridge, University of Southampton)
4.45 Break
5.00 Keynote lecture: Forgetting Empire? Indian Memory and the Raj (Anna-Maria Misra, University of Oxford)
7.00 Dinner
Saturday, 3 September 2011
9.30 Panel 4: Institutions (chair: John Clark, University of St Andrews)
(i) This VOC Mentality! The Dutch East India Company as a Lieu de Mentalité of Empire (Victor Enthoven, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
(ii) Africa in British Missionary Memory: No Place for Empire? (John Stuart, University of Kingston)
(iii) Botanical Gardens and Empire:
(iii.a)Plant Hunt and Colonial Agriculture – The Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (Katja Kaiser, Freie Universität Berlin)
(iii.b) Kew (Frank Uekötter, Rachel Carson Centre Munich)
11.30 Break
11.45 Round Table and Concluding Discussion
1.00 Conference ends and lunch