3RD RUIN MEMORIES WORKSHOP FALMOUTH NOV 18-19, 2011
St Michael’s Hotel & Spa, Falmouth
Thursday Nov 17
Checking in, etc
20.00 Dinner at Gylly Beach
Friday Nov 18
09.30 – 10.00 Introduction
10.00 -10.45 Gavin Lucas: Mobile Homes – ruination and the mobility of things
10.45 -11.30 Þóra Pétursdóttir: Things on the move and moments of intervention: A glimpse of the summer’s excavations at Eyri, Iceland
11.30 -11.45 Coffee/tea break
11.45 -12.30 Elin Andreassen/Hein Bjerck: Yuri’s Gym and Wall-E – Thrills and Troubles of the Abandoned Town
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.45 Bjørnar Olsen: Sværholt: Recovered memories of a WWII POW camp in the far north
14.45-15.30 Liv-Emma Thorsen: Animal Fragments in Gothenburg Natural History Museum
15.30-15.45 Coffee/tea break
15.45-16.30 Þóra Pétursdóttir/Bjørnar Olsen: Abandonment, Soviet heritage and survival: travel notes from the northern Kola coast, Russia.
17.00 – 18.30 Internal Ruin Memories team meeting
20.00 Dinner at Warehouse Bistro
Saturday Nov 19
9.30 – 10.15 Alfredo González-Ruibal: From here I saw what happened. Three sites/three sieges from the Spanish Civil War
10.15-11.00 Gareth Hoskins: A site of environmental conscience? Malakoff Diggins and the muscular morality of destruction.
11.00-11.15 Coffee/tea break
11.15-12.00 Mats Burström: Dealing with Difficult Heritage. The Case of Bückeberg, Site of the Third Reich Harvest Festival
12.00 – 1300 Lunch
13.00 – 13.45 Tim LeCain: Remembering a Landscape of Mass Destruction: A World Environmental Memorial for an American Open Pit Copper Mine?
13.45 – 14.30 Caitlin DeSilvey: Butte, America: ruination, reclamation, and the remainder
14.30-14.45 Coffee/tea break
14.45-15.30 Hilary Orange: Benders, Benches and Bunkers: Recent Contestation and Commemoration at an Industrial (Heritage) Landscape
15.30-17.00 General discussion
20.00 Dinner at The Wheelhouse
Sunday Nov 20
10.00- 18.00 Excursions
19.00 Dinner at The Trengilly Wartha.