Seminar Program

Friday September 26, 2008 at Wanås Konsthall

Moderator: Rosie Branson Gill, Brown University

Speakers:

Fil. dr. Patrick Amsellem, Associate Curator of Photography, Brooklyn Museum

Fil. dr. Max Liljefors, Lund University

Marita Sturken, Professor at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

James E. Young, Professor of English and Judaic Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Program:

09:30-10:30 Registration. Time to view the exhibition Loss

10:00 Coffee and sandwich

10:40 Introduction by Marika Wachtmeister, Director, The Wanås Foundation

10:50 Introduction by moderator Rosie Branson Gill

11:00 James E. Young on Holocaust memorials in Europe

12:00 Patrick Amsellem on Experimental commemoration: monumentality, interactivity and site-specificity

12:45 Lunch

13:20 Tour of The Polynational War Memorial by artist Jon Brunberg

13:20 Tour of Loss by curator Elna Svenle and artists Ann Böttcher, Alejandra Lundén and Esther Shalev-Gerz

14:00 Marita Sturken on the Ground Zero memorial and the role of kitsch in US memorial culture

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Max Liljefors on Memory, Amnesia and Television

16.15-17:00 Panel discussion