Conference: Reconstructing minds after war and disaster
19.8.2014
The “Reconstructing minds – the ethics of post-war memory and recollection” conference will be held at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, in 25–27 August, 2014. It is directed at researchers, students and others whose interests include the processes of reconstruction – mental as well as material – that take place following wars and other collective disasters.
The conference is dealing with the memory, remembering and recollecting;
forgetting, remaining silent and being silenced; or other topics
relating to material and mental reconstruction on the individual or
communal levels.
The keynote speakers at the conference will be
Timothy Ashplant (Visiting Senior Research Fellow, PhD, Centre for
Life-Writing Research, King’s College, London, UK), Veli-Pekka Lehtola
(Professor of Sámi culture, Giellagas Institute for Sámi studies,
University of Oulu, Finland), and Ville Kivimäki (Research Fellow, PhD,
University of Helsinki).
The sessions are: Silences, hopes and
challenges after wars and catastrophes; Visions and realizations in
Post-war Architecture; Memories and experiences; Images and
possibilities; and Nation building – Commemoration and forgetting.
The
conference will be organized by the Finnish Academy project Feeniks –
Art and culture in the mental and material reconstruction process
following the Lapland War.
More information on conference web pages
More information on the project Feeniks