CREATIVITY BEHIND BARBED WIRE

ORGANISED BY
Dr GILLIAN CARR (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)
AND
Dr HAROLD MYTUM (CENTRE FOR MANX STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL)

HELD AT THE MCDONALD INSTITUTE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, CAMBRIDGE

SPONSORS:

The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

University of Liverpool Centre for Manx Studies

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Creativity Behind Barbed Wire
Friday 26th March – Sunday 28th March 2010
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room
Organisers: Dr Gilly Carr and Dr Harold Mytum

Friday 26th March

Registration: 12.30-1.45, foyer of McDonald Institute.
Helpers: Emily Hallinan and Xosé Hermoso-Buxan (undergraduates from the department of Archaeology) will be on the main desk throughout the conference to help.

1.30 – 2.00: Coffee in McDonald Institute coffee room.
2.00 – 2.10: Dr Gilly Carr and Dr Harold Mytum: Introduction and welcome

SESSION 1: SELF-IMPROVEMENT AND INTELLECTUAL ENDEAVOUR

2.10 – 2.35: Dr Harold Mytum (Director, Centre for Manx Studies, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool): ‘Photographs at Douglas Camp: deciphering dynamics from static images’.
2.33 – 3.00: Ulrike Smalley (Curator, Department of Art, Imperial War Museum, London): ‘Lecture on the Lawn: Internment art from Hutchinson Camp’.
3.00 – 3.25: Rachel Dickson (Co-curator, Forced Journeys, Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art): ‘‘The eye and the mouthpiece of our thoughts and ideas’: Alva, Lomnitz, Meyer, Nonnenmacher, Schames, Solomonski – forgotten artist internees, 1940-1945.’
COFFEE BREAK (20 mins)
3.45 – 4.10: Sarah MacDougall (Co-curator, Forced Journeys, Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art): ‘A Vitalising Impulse’- Sculptors behind the wire: Ernst M Blensdorf, Siegfried Charoux, Georg Ehrlich, Paul Hamann, Margarete Klopfleisch and Pamina Liebert-Mahrenholz’
4.10 – 4.35: (withdrawn) Dr Megan Price (Visiting Academic and Research Associate, School of Archaeology, Oxford University): ‘Radishes and Excavations: Excavating allotments and archaeological sites as an enemy alien in the Isle of Man.’
4.35 – 5.00: Suzanne Snizek (doctoral candidate in Musical Arts (DMA), University of British Columbia, Canada; Music Affiliate, Trinity Western University, Canada) ‘Spiritual Vitamins’: Musical Process and Product in WWII Internment.
5.00 – 5.30: DISCUSSION
6.30 – 7.30: Wine Reception, Old Combination Room (OCR) St Catharine’s College.

Saturday 27th March

SESSION 2: IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY

9.30 – 9.55: Yvonne Cresswell (Curator, Social History, Manx National Heritage, Isle of Man): ‘Manx Cats and Triskeles: The Use of Manx Iconography in First World War Internment Camps on the Isle of Man’.
9.55 – 10.20: Dr Adele Roger Recklies (Independent Scholar, USA): ‘Turkish POW beadwork souvenirs from WWI’.
10.20 – 10.55: Dr Jonathan Black (Senior Research Fellow in History of Art, Dorich House Museum, Kingston University): ‘Know The Face of Thy Enemy’: The Portrayal of German Prisoners of War in Official British War Art: 1917-1919′.
10.55 – 11.25: COFFEE BREAK (30 mins)
11.25 – 11.50: Dr Simon Stoddart (Senior Lecturer, Cambridge University) and Fulceri Bruni Roccia (Advocate): ‘Uno specchio capovolto: the comparative POW experiences of a British and Italian POW.’
11.50 – 12. 15: Dr Jennifer Kewley Draskau (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Manx Studies, Liverpool University): KULTURKRIEG and FRONTGEIST from behind the wire: WW1 Newspapers from Douglas Internment Camp.
12.15 – 12.40: Tobie Matava (Assistant Professor and librarian, Iowa State University): Introducing the Online Center for the Study of Japanese American Concentration Camp Art.
12.40 – 1.10: DISCUSSION
1.10 – 2.10: LUNCH BREAK (1 hour)

SESSION 3: RESISTANCE AND AGENCY

2.10 – 2.35: Dr Gilly Carr (Lecturer in Archaeology, Cambridge University): ‘Creativity and resistance behind barbed wire’.
2.35 – 3.00: Dr Jane Dusselier (Assistant Professor, Iowa State University): ‘The Legacies of Creativity: Japanese American Concentration Camp Art as Artifacts of Agency’.
3.00 – 3.25: (withdrawn)Jonathan Henshaw (MA student, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada): ‘Internment Re-imagined: The Weihsien Camp, 1943-45.’
3.25 – 3.55: COFFEE BREAK (30 mins)
3.55 – 4.20: Fabien Theofilakis (Lecturer, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre – University of Augsburg): “Traces of cultural practices in war time captivity (1939-1945)”.
4.20 – 4.45: Professor Tomoyo Nakao (Associate Professor, Okayama University, Japan) ‘Menus of the imagination: Creativity against hunger in POW camps’.
4.45 – 5.10pm:Hilary Roberts: (Head of Collections Management, Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive, London): ‘William Lawrence:  POW Photographer 1942 – 1945’.
5.10 – 5.40: DISCUSSION
6.30 – 7.30: POW MUSIC RECITAL, Chapel, St Catharine’s College.
7.30: Conference dinner, Senior Combination Room (SCR), St Catharine’s College.

Sunday 28th March

SESSION 4: INGENUITY AND RECYCLING

9.30 – 9.55: Jenny Shaw (Archivist, British Red Cross Museum and Archives, London): ‘Prisoner of war material held by the British Red Cross Museum and Archives’.
9.55 – 10.20: Meg Parkes (Research Associate, Clinical Division, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine): ‘Make Do and Mend with Tins, Tubes and Tenacity:  A study of improvised medicine in Far East POW camps, 1942-1945’.
10.20 – 10.55: Dr Felicia Yap (Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge University): ‘Creativity and the Body: Internees in British Asia during the Second World War’.
10.55 – 11.25: COFFEE BREAK (30 mins)
11.25 – 11.50: Professor Peter Doyle (Visiting Professor, University College, London): ‘Necessity, the mother of invention: ingenuity behind barbed wire.’
11.50 – 12.15: Euan McKay (PhD Candidate in International Relations, University of Tokyo, Japan). ‘Japanese prisoners’ cultural activities behind barbed wire.’
12.15 – 12.40: Emeritus Professor Sears Eldredge (Professor Emeritus, Theatre and Dance dept, Macalaster College, Minesota): ‘Wonder Bar:  Theatre Performance as Survival Strategy in Far Eastern POW Camps, 1941-1945’.
12.40 – 1.10: DISCUSSION
1.10 – 2.10: LUNCH BREAK (1 hour)

SESSION 5: GENDER

2.10 – 2.35: Dr Alon Rachamimov (Director of the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Department of History, Tel Aviv University, Israel): ‘Islands of Men: Shifting Gender Boundaries in WWI POW Camps’.
2.35 – 3.00: Dr Bernice Archer (Independent Scholar, UK): A Patchwork of Internment: the women’s perspective of internment in the Far East, 1941-1945.
3.00 – 3.25: Alan Jeffreys (Curator, Imperial War Museum): ‘Changi Civilian Internee embroidered sheets.’
3.25 – 3.55: COFFEE BREAK (30 mins)
3.55 – 4.20: Donato Somma (Lecturer, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg): Madonnas and Primadonnas: representations of women in Italian POW camps in WWII South Africa.

SESSION 6: SOCIETY

4.20 – 4.45: Dr Claire Hall (Tutor, Nottingham University): ‘“Meine Liebe Hanneliese!” German prisoner of war letter writing and the case study of German POW Herbert Wermelskirchen (Ducks Cross Camp, Colmworth, Bedfordshire, July-December 1946).
4.45 – 5.10: Oliver Wilkinson (PhD student, Lancaster University): Captivity in Print: Critical Readings of British POW Camp Magazines of the First World War.
5.10 – 5.40: DISCUSSION
CONFERENCE DISPERSES