Partnership
The Contained Memory Conference 2010 is presented by:
Massey University, School of Visual and Material Culture, College of Creative Arts, New Zealand
in partnership with
Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, New York, United States of America
Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand
Public Memory Project
Syracuse University has been heavily involved in the study of public memory and visual culture for the past seven years. The university has previously hosted three major interdisciplinary conferences devoted to the themes of “Framing Public Memory” (2001), “Contesting Public Memories” (2005) and “Visible Memories” (2008). As a result of these efforts, the Syracuse University “Public Memory Project,” housed in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, has become a hub for collaboration among scholars from over a dozen departments and has hosted numerous individual scholars while supporting specific memory-related projects within the Syracuse community.
Syracuse University Humanities Center
Founded in June of 2008, the SU Humanities Center is an interdisciplinary center for research, events and exhibitions, and critical programming in the arts and humanities. The SU Humanities Center is home to three respected programs previously housed in The College of Arts and Sciences: Syracuse Symposium, an annual semester-long intellectual and artistic festival; The Andrew W. Mellon Central New York Humanities Corridor, an interdisciplinary collaboration with SU, Cornell University, and the University of Rochester; and The Jeanette K. Watson Professorship and External Fellows Series. The SU Humanities Center also sponsors major research initiatives, supports fellowships and public programming, and assists with procuring external funding for humanistic research activities. A key objective of the SU Humanities Center is to create a dialogue about the public possibilities of humanistic inquiry, as they pertain to innovative thinking and real-life problems. Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, is Founding Director of the SU Humanities Center and Project Director/Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor.
Collaborative and interdisciplinary, the SU Humanities Center prioritizes “connectivity”—extending academic interchange and innovative thinking beyond academic walls—to serve as an academic-community bridge for anchoring dialogues about the public possibilities of humanistic inquiry. This mission is actualized according to principles (or “core values”) that are the basis of all our programs and activities.
Memory Connection online journal (School of Visual and Material Culture, College of Creative Arts, Massey University)
Following the conference a selection of 30 peer-reviewed articles based on conference papers was published in Memory Connection, an international, peer-reviewed journal project of The Memory Waka Research Group (Massey University, New Zealand). Memory Connection provides a meeting place for multidisciplinary perspectives, discourses, and expressions of memory. The journal aims to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue that may lead to different ways of “seeing” and the creation of new knowledge. Memory Connection is only available electronically at http://www.memoryconnection.org
Memory Connection Volume 1, Number 1, Contained Memory is published in association with Syracuse university (U.S.A.).
General Editors
Kingsley Baird (Massey University, New Zealand)
Kendall Phillips (Syracuse University, United States of America)
Editors, Contained Memory (Memory Connection, Volume 1, Number 1)
Kingsley Baird (Massey University, New Zealand)
Kendall Phillips (Syracuse University, United States of America)
Project Editor, Contained Memory (Memory Connection, Volume 1, Number 1)
Helen Greatrex
The Memory Waka
The Memory Waka Research Group initiates and supports projects concerned with memory including publishing the Memory Connection online journal.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/colleges/college-creative-arts/people/research/the-memory-waka/en/the-memory-waka_home.cfm
The Memory Waka Board:
Chair: Associate Professor Kingsley Baird, Massey University (NZ); Board members: Dr Paul Broks, University of Plymouth (UK); Professor Sir Mason Durie KNZM CNZM, Massey University (NZ); Professor Ross Hemera, Massey University (NZ); Professor Sally J. Morgan, Massey University (NZ); Professor Kendall Phillips, Syracuse University (USA); Associate Professor Tony Whincup, Massey University (NZ).
The Memory Waka
As a means of conveyance a waka is a Maori canoe. Waka has other meanings such as a receptacle or a chief’s carved treasure box (waka huia) containing valuable possessions including prized feathers. Waka also refers to a body of people such as a kinship group. Metaphorically, the waka is a vessel of humanity, ideas, and culture. It is also (literally) a means of travel for people allied in a common cause (paddling in the same direction!).
Conference Organising Committee
Co-Convenors
Associate Professor Kingsley Baird (SVMC, CoCA, MU)
Professor Kendall Phillips (Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, CVPA, SU)
Members
Associate Professor Tony Whincup (HOS, SVMC, CoCA, MU)
Associate Professor Ross Hemera (SVMC, CoCA, MU)
Associate Professor David Cross (SoFA, CoCA, MU)
Professor Anne Noble ONZ (Director of Research, CoCA, MU)
Dr. Claudia Orange DCNZM OBE (Collections and Research Group Director, Te Papa Tongarewa)
Dr. Anne Demo (Professor, CRS, School of Art and Design, Department of Transmedia, SU)
Associate Professor Joanna Spitzner (Chair, Art and Design, SU)
Dr. Caroline Campbell (Lecturer, School of Design, CoCA, MU)
Mark Bradford (Senior Lecturer, School of Design, CoCA, MU)
Heike Ulrich (Executive Administrator, SVMC, CoCA, MU)
Marcus Moore (Lecturer, SVMC, CoCA, MU)
Matthijs Siljee (Lecturer, School of Design, CoCA, MU)
Tanya Marriot (Lecturer, School of Design, CoCA, MU)
Euan Robertson (Lecturer, School of Design, CoCA, MU)
