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Seminar: Healing War Through Art (2014)

Sepia tinted photograph of three men sitting at benches. Easel in backgrounds. Closest figure has a trouser leg wrapped under amputation at knee.

7th May 2014 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade In these presentations, organisers of the exhibition will use interdisciplinary approaches to explore its central theme: the art and craft rehabilitation training of limbless soldiers from the Pavilion Hospital at Queen Mary Workshop and… Continue Reading →

15 May, 2014 0

Seminar: Our Dancing Feet (2013)

Black and white photograph of a crowded dance floor with couples in forties style clothing.

12th Nov 2013 5:00pm-7:00pm Grand Parade A free and open event hosted with CRMNH partners from the Our Dancing Feet project. Booking required. The Our Dancing Feet project will result in a site specific dance/theatre piece celebrating the history of… Continue Reading →

15 November, 2013 0

Seminar: Visiting the past: Histories of commemoration and competing narratives of remembering war(2013)

Sepia photograph showing a grand interior and a large group including female figures dressed in early nursing uniforms and men wearing turbans

27th Jun 2013 5:00pm-6:45pm Grand Parade Dr Keir Reeves, Monash University, Australia This presentation investigates the sometimes-fraught intersection of history and heritage. In doing so it engages with recent discussions and debates about commemoration of war and the process of history… Continue Reading →

15 June, 2013 0

Seminar: We never give up II (2012)

22nd Apr 2012 6:00pm – 22nd Apr 2013 7:30pm G4, Grand Parade. The Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories is pleased to announce a special seminar with Shirley Gunn of the Human Rights and Media Centre, Cape Town,… Continue Reading →

15 April, 2012 0

Black History Debate: “Are black people excluded from the historic buildings of the places in which they live?” (2010)

16th Oct 2010 3:30pm-5:00pm Education Room at Brighton Museum Kofi Mawuli (Chief Executive Commissioner of PANAFRIINDABA), Daniel Ibekwe (Chair of the Racial Harassment Forum) and Louise Purbrick (School of Humanities, University of Brighton) addressed urgent questions around ‘race’, exclusion and… Continue Reading →

15 October, 2010 0