Podcasts by Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation is a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series running in 2017-18 at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. It brings together academics from many different fields, politicians and leading figures from cultural policy and the charitable sector. They are joined by novelists, poets, artists and musicians whose work has marked war in some way. The Series is divided into three strands - Textual, Monumental, and Aural Commemoration - and is guided by three overarching questions: Who is commemoration for and why? How does commemoration lead to reconstruction and reconciliation? What is the future of commemoration?

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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
Susie Campbell speaks to Niall Munro from 2018-08-06T11:02:30

Susie Campbell talks to Niall Munro about her experience as poet-in-residence during the Post-War seminar series 2017-18.

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A Crack of Light: Poetry Reading from 2018-08-06T10:46:30

Poems of commemoration, reconstruction and reconciliation from the Post-War series' poets-in-residence. Poets Susie Campbell, Patrick Toland, Mariah Whelan and Susie Zatland share their new poetry ...

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Alex Donnelly speaks to Niall Munro from 2018-07-31T13:02:48

Alex Donnelly talks to Niall Munro about his work on the ecology of conflict, the interpretative role of academic research, and his interest in the 'lone voices' in poetry.

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Jon Stainsby speaks to Johana Muskalova from 2018-07-31T12:56:21

Jon Stainsby talks to Johana Muskalova about the relationship between music and commemoration and his experience as a performer. Baritone soloist Jon Stainsby performed in the European premiere of ...

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Anna Leese speaks to Niall Munro from 2018-07-31T12:51:09

Anna Leese speaks to Niall Munro about her personal connections to commemorations of war and the performance of commemorative music. Soprano soloist Anna Leese performed in the European premiere of...

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Simon Over speaks to Rita Phillips from 2018-07-31T09:47:18

Conductor Simon Over talks to Rita Phillips about the performance of commemorative musical works. Simon Over, Musical Director of the Southbank Sinfonia, conducted the European premiere of Anthony ...

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Anthony Ritchie speaks to Catherine Gilbert from 2018-07-31T09:42:02

Composer Anthony Ritchie talks to Catherine Gilbert about the relationship between music, war and remembrance in his oratorio Gallipoli to the Somme. The European premiere of New Zealand composer A...

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Interview with Lord William Wallace from 2018-07-30T15:46:07

Lord William Wallace, member of the Parliament Choir, talks to Professor Kate McLoughlin about the centenary commemorations of the First World War.

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John Dunston speaks to Kate McLoughlin from 2018-07-30T15:38:19

John Dunston and Kate McLoughlin explore varieties of religious silence and the relationship between silence and commemoration.

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Lydia Wilson speaks to Alex Donnelly from 2018-07-30T15:28:10

Lydia Wilson talks to Alex Donnelly about commemoration as a narrative for the future in the Middle East

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Mahinda Deegalle speaks to Catherine Gilbert from 2018-07-30T15:13:19

Mahinda Deegalle talks to Catherine Gilbert about the application of Buddhist values in post-conflict societies.

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Interview with Dr Adrian Gregory from 2018-07-30T14:58:55

Adrian Gregory speaks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips about the role of silence in public commemoration.

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Jonathan Dove speaks to Kate McLoughlin from 2018-06-18T10:40:48

Composer Jonathan Dove talks to Kate McLoughlin about commemorating through music and music’s power to make us remember in the wake of individual and mass loss.

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Interview with Dr Peter Grant from 2018-06-18T10:38:20

Peter Grant talks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips about the link between collective memory and popular music, exploring examples of artists who attempt to challenge dominant national narratives.

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Laura Hassler speaks to Kate McLoughlin from 2018-06-18T10:35:12

Laura Hassler, Founding Director of Musicians without Borders, talks to Kate McLoughlin about her vision for the organisation and music’s potential in giving voice, recognition and empowerment to p...

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Rihab Azar speaks to Niall Munro from 2018-06-18T10:32:48

Musician Rihab Azar talks to Niall Munro about her quest to find new ways of empowering and connecting communities through music and how music functions as a ‘resistance act’ in situations of (post...

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Charles Gurrey speaks to Niall Munro from 2018-04-24T19:13:35

Sculptor and carver Charles Gurrey talks to Niall Munro about the importance of context, text and material in his design of commemorative sculptures.

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Silke Arnold-de Simine speaks to Catherine Gilbert from 2018-04-24T19:10:58

Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about new forms of testimony, the limits of empathy and the need to understand processes of exclusion and dehumanisation. Dr Silke Arnold-de ...

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Pfarrerin Dr Cornelia Kulawik speaks to Kate McLoughlin from 2018-04-24T19:09:26

Pfarrerin Dr Cornelia Kulawik, Pastor of Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Berlin-Dahlem, and Kate McLoughlin discuss changing modes of commemoration in Germany and the role of the church in reconciliat...

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The Very Revd John Witcombe speaks to Rita Phillips from 2018-04-24T19:07:27

The Very Reverend John Witcombe, Dean of Coventry Cathedral, talks to Rita Phillips about the Coventry Cross of Nails and the power of such symbols in building solidarity in post-conflict societies...

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Daniel Libeskind speaks to Niall Munro from 2018-03-28T11:22:24

Architect Daniel Libeskind talks to Niall Munro about civic responsibility, the shock of memory and the role of the monument as a bridge between the past and the future.

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Mark Johnston speaks to Alex Donnelly from 2018-03-28T11:17:10

Mark Johnston talks to Alex Donnelly about the work of the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum and the importance of an arts engagement approach to commemoration in improving the well-being of...

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Jane Potter speaks to Kate McLoughlin from 2018-03-28T11:15:39

Dr Jane Potter, Reader in Arts at Oxford Brookes University, talks to Kate McLoughlin about textual and material commemorative cultures and the central role of words and language in the reconstruct...

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Chrissie Steenkamp speaks to Johana Musalkova from 2018-03-28T11:14:02

Dr Chrissie Steenkamp talks to Johana Musalkova about community-based and nationally-driven practices of commemoration in South Africa and Northern Ireland.

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Gabe Moshenska speaks to Rita Phillips from 2018-03-28T11:08:57

Archaeologist Dr Gabe Moshenska talks to Rita Phillips about democratic forms of commemoration and the public responsibility of researchers in empowering people to take control of their own narrati...

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Emma Login speaks to Dahmicca Wright from 2018-03-28T11:01:23

Dr Emma Login talks to poet-in-residence Dahmicca Wright about Historic England's First World War Memorials Programme, 'memorial mania', and the recent shift from community-based to national forms ...

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Tony Horwitz speaks to Niall Munro from 2018-03-28T10:58:31

Author and journalist Tony Horwitz talks to Niall Munro about the sesquicentennial commemorations of the American Civil War, the complexity of reconstruction in the American South, and re-enactment...

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Daniel Libeskind: Architecture and Memory from 2018-02-26T14:10:56

In this lecture, architect Daniel Libeskind shares his creative process and thinking for many of his most prominent buildings including the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Military History Museum in D...

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Interview with Harvey Whitehouse from 2017-12-12T12:08:51

Harvey Whitehouse, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, talks to Alex Donnelly and Johana Musalkova about shared responses to experiences of suffering and the potential rol...

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Rachel Seiffert speaks to Catherine Gilbert from 2017-12-08T13:49:04

Novelist Rachel Seiffert talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about the ritual of memory and the possibilities of fiction as a response to a difficult past.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge speaks to Rita Phillips from 2017-12-08T13:46:01

Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia, talks to Rita Phillips about literary humanitarianism and the ethics of empathy.

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Elleke Boehmer speaks to Kate McLoughlin from 2017-12-08T13:37:47

Elleke Boehmer talks to Kate McLoughlin about her most recent novel, The Shouting in the Dark, the language of reconciliation in South Africa, and the creative potential for the work of both fictio...

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Aminatta Forna speaks to Catherine Gilbert from 2017-11-21T11:31:46

Aminatta Forna OBE, author of The Devil that Danced on the Water, talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about silence, narrative and resilience in Sierra Leone.

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Philippe Sands speaks to Kate McLoughlin from 2017-11-21T11:30:14

Philippe Sands, QC, international human rights lawyer and author of East West Street, talks to Kate McLoughlin about the law-court as a place of commemoration and what he came to understand outside...

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Dunya Mikhail speaks to Alex Donnelly from 2017-11-21T11:28:55

Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail talks to Alex Donnelly about commemoration, reconnection and poetry as 'a museum of feeling'.

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Jeremy Treglown speaks to Alex Donnelly from 2017-11-21T11:27:26

Professor Jeremy Treglown and Alex Donnelly discuss the politics of commemoration and the challenges of remembrance for both veterans and civilians.

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Interview with Lord John Alderdice from 2017-11-20T15:41:47

Lord John Alderdice (Liberal Democrat peer and Director of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (CRIC)) talks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips. They talk about poetry, peace p...

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