All to do with Dover Arts Development and their Symposium:
http://www.dadonline.eu/node/420
WAR & PEACE SYMPOSIUM: 13 October 2012
Memorialisation: Commemorating the Past, Creating the Future
Memorialisation is the process of preserving memories of people or events or places, both physically and virtually. Memorialisation involves heritage, memory and identity.
It is an important feature of our collective existence: memorials function to help us remember events of local and regional importance and of personal impact and significance through the generations. Psychologically necessary, they provide points for emotional expression and healing. They are intended to symbolise shared communal values, but they are often controversial.
How can we manage heritage in a meaningful way? What kind of memorials are fitting? Who or what is being memorialised and how? Who is not included? What forms can memorialisation take?
This symposium, taking place as it does in Dover, is particularly relevant with Dover now at a crossroads regarding its future heritage development: with much discussion around the proposed developments at Farthingloe and the Western Heights and controversy around the proposal for a National World War II War Memorial, the Dover Virtual War Memorial project, the sale of part of the White Cliffs of Dover and of the Port of Dover.
Organised together with Dover Museum, this one-day Symposium will take place at the Roundhouse Theatre, Dover Discovery Centre, Market Square, Dover, Kent, CT16 1PB, on Saturday 13 October 2012, 11am - 6pm.
The symposium will start with a tour of the Western Heights and Drop Redoubt with Mandy Whall and Tracy Stewart from the Western Heights Preservation Society followed by lunch and presentations by a variety of invited speakers.
Schedule:
10.45am: Meet at Dover Museum, Market Square, CT16 1PB for Western Heights tour
1pm: Lunch at Dover Discovery Centre
1.45pm: Presentations
• Jon Iveson, Head Curator Dover Museum, Introduction to Dover's history
• Dr Jonathon Charley, University of Strathclyde, Social history of towns and buildings
• Matthias Koch, Photographer, presenting his work.
• Marilyn Stephenson-Knight, Founder of the Dover virtual war memorial project
• Dr Tim Strangleman, Professor in Sociology University of Kent, Memorialisation of Work as exemplified in the DAD documentary film production Watermark
•Composer Nigel Clarke, Musician Peter Sheppard-Skaerved and Storyteller Malene Skærved presentation: Memorialisation through composition and storytelling.
4.30pm: Move to Dover museum to view The Voyagers by Clare Smith, in the Bronze Age Boat Gallery, including Philippe Bazin's un bateau albanais
•Chris Burke will be reading an extract from William Cobbet's 1830's travel journal 'Rural Rides' with his comments and observations upon his visit to Dover
still priorities are so important and must be adhered to 
