Date: May 12th 2010

Summer School: Memory, Empire and Technology


School of Advanced Study, University of London

SUMMER SCHOOL

MEMORY, EMPIRE AND TECHNOLOGY

29 JUNE-3 JULY 2010

Deadline for applications extended to 21 May 2010

Held at the School of Advanced Study and organised by the Centre for the
Study of Cultural Memory, this Summer School consists of a series of
seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects related to
the relationship between memory and technology. The sessions will be
taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and range from
experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, to photography
and workshops on digital archives. These sessions will be complemented
by afternoon activities centred round London understood as technological
city: the Greenwich History Project, visits to the Stanley Kubrick
Archives and the Warburg Library, and an architectural tour of the East
End and Olympic Site on the famous Routemaster bus. This School welcomes
researchers, students, artists, archivists, conservation and heritage
professionals and any others interested in memory, technology and the
industrial legacy of London.

Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance from the School of
Advanced Study, University London. Participants who wish to receive
credit should make their own arrangements with their home
institution/tutor to assess written work or another piece of assessable
work.

Deadline for Applications: 21 May 2010

For more info please visit:
http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.html
<http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CMsummerschool.html>

or email: cmss@sas.ac.uk



Short Programme

Tue 29 June: FILM

Am:
Proust, Planes and telephones'
Seminar/Workshop led by Dr Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck University of
London)

Film and Colonial Memories
Seminar led by Prof Robert Lumley, UCL

Pm/Evening:
Patrick Keiller: The View from the Train
Plenary Lecture, chaired by Dr Katia Pizzi (IGRS)
(open to the public)

Wed 30 June: ARCHIVES

Am:
The Warburg Library
led by Dr Francois Quiviger (Warburg Institute)

Pm:
Visit to the Stanley Kubrick archives
led by Richard Daniels (University of the Arts) and Dr Ricarda Vidal
(IGRS)

Thu 1 July: PHOTOGRAPHY

Am:
Writing with Light
Practical workshop led by Dr Junko Theresa Mikuriya (University of Kent)


Pm:
architectural tour of London on a Routemaster bus
led and driven by Prof Joe Kerr (Royal College of Art)

Evening:
Workshop with the artist Ruth McLennan



Fri 2 July: MUSIC/DIGITAL

Am:
Digital Memories
Seminar led by Dr Eleanor Chiari (Harrow School)

Analogue Memories: Shellac and Vinyl Records
Seminar led by Dr Richard Osborne (Middlesex University)

Pm:
The Big Smoke: Films from a Lost London 1896-1945
Film screening

Sat 3 July: LITERATURE/VISUAL ARTS

Am:
The British Empire on Film
Seminar at Imperial War Museum, led by Dr Richard Osborne (Middlesex
University)

Guns and the memory of the First World War: The case of the Imperial War
Museum
Seminar at Imperial War Museum led by Dr Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck
University of London)

Pm:
London, the river, technology and memory
walking tour led by Prof Derek Keene (Institute of Historical Research)

Summer School Dinner





Dr Ricarda Vidal

Lecturer in Visual Culture

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
Stewart House, 32 Russell Squ, London WC1B 5DN