LCAHM Annual Conference 2023: Resourcefulness for Peace and Recovery

Location
3rd Floor Mezzanine - Education M35 - University of Birmingham Edgbaston Campus and online
Dates
Wednesday 3 May 2023 (09:00-17:00)
Contact

Please register by 27 April 2023

Figure 1: Folio from a manuscript of the Raga Darshan of Anup (1799–1800 AD). Purchase, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and funds from various donors, 2007. New York: MET Museum.

Resourcefulness, Peace, and Recovery are transnational and multi-faceted themes that can transcend crisis.

Throughout the broader historical context, they have generated political and economic reforms, innovative systems, and effective legislations. Certainly, in light of recent wars (Ukraine), the women-led counter-revolution in Iran, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate crisis, these discussions have far deeper roots and personal meaning. How then do we devise resourceful solutions that lead to peace and recovery? What can the past teach us about resourcefulness? How do we shape this to suit us in the present and in the future? 

These are questions that we strive to unpack in this year’s Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music (LCAHM) Annual Conference 2023 at the University of Birmingham, which will be in hybrid format- hosted in collaboration with the Institute for German and European Studies (IGES)

Programme

9.00-9.30 - Registration

9.30-9.40 - Welcome: Sara Jones/Danielle Krikorian

9.40-10.25 - Keynote address by Dr Owen Frazer, Senior Advisor, Conflict Transformation at Helvetas

10.25-10.45 - Refreshments 

10.45-12.15 - Panel 1

  • Restoring ‘Hope’ and ‘Healing’ communities through craft: The Kingdom of Heaven (2017) installation at Manchester Cathedral – Ines Jorge (Art History, UoB)
  • Making Live: Affect-laden Practices of Remembrance in the Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks in France (2015-2016) - Yordanka Dimcheva (Modern Languages, UoB)
  • Emerging Studio Ceramic Influenced by Islamic Culture –  Zelal Basodan (Loughborough University)

12.15-13.15 - Lunch and Networking

13.15-14.45 - Panel 2

  • Faire is the Heaven: Action and Utopia in Simone de Beauvoir’s Pyrrhus and Cineas – Thomas Chesworth (Modern Languages, UoB)
  • Language's Role in Ideological Wars for Hegemony – Bethlehem Attfield (Modern Languages, UoB)
  • Visions of Coventry’s Post-war Future – Eleanor Cook (Coventry University)

14.45-15.00 - Refreshments

15.00-16.30 - Panel 3

  • The ethics and politics of (non)violence – Katharina Karcher (Modern Languages, UoB)
  • Athens in Late Antiquity: An Age of Turmoil and Recovery – Panagiota Mantouvalou (Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, UoB)
  • The (De)Construction of Everyday Life Under Daesh: Resourcefulness, Resilience and Resistance – Christopher Ryder (Modern Languages, UoB)

16.30-17.00 - The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and CultureSara Jones (Modern Languages, UoB)


Figure 1: Folio from a manuscript of the Raga Darshan of Anup (1799–1800 AD). Purchase, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and funds from various donors, 2007. New York: MET Museum.