Experiencing 11 November 2018

Shanti Sumartojo is Associate Professor of Design Research and a member of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

• Reframing commemoration at the end of the First World War centenary: new approaches and case studiesShanti SumartojoPART I: Cities 11 November 2018: Liège, Mons and Brussels commemorate the Great WarChantal Kesteloot and Laurence van Ypersele 2018 Armistice Day in Flanders Fields: how complex is commemoration at the end of an era? Dominique Vanneste and Gregory Ramshaw Vienna, November 7-10, 2018: A four-day journey into public commemorations of November 1918 in the Austrian republicOlivier Luminet The role of a politics of memory and the digital, in reframing the commemoration of Polish Independence Danielle DrozdzewskiPART II: Sites Remembrance, participation, (re)emergence: Washington’s National Cathedral, 11 November 2018Jeremy Foster Pozières: The never-ending war on the Somme Caroline Winter The sound of the cow: observing Remembrance Day in New DelhiPeter Stanley9.Observing Silence: Experiential Reflections on the 11 November 2018 Armistice Day Commemorations in London James WallisPart III: Art Pages of the Sea: A UK Case StudyEmma Hanna Memorial Chairs and Transitory Fictive Kinship in the Centenary Commemoration of the End of the First World War Kingsley Baird 12 Flowers of War: 11 November 2018 at Melbourne’s Shrine of RemembranceShanti Sumartojo Just like being there: technologies of reconstructed experience and First World War commemoration Katherine Smits Part IV: Multiplicities To be or not to be Danish? Commemorating the First World War in Denmark on 11 November 2018David C. Harvey The 10 November 2018 Indian commemoration in Villers-Guislains in the north of France: Atmosphere and the experience of alterityAnne Hertzog and Rafiq Pirzada What is still known about 11 November 1918 by German-speaking Belgians?Christin Camia, Clara Falys, Jelena Scheider and Olivier Luminet

"The proposed collection offers an impressive comparative approach to the study of war commemoration... I would recommend this to anyone doing research on war memory, and commemorative activities in particular."- Geoffrey White, University of Hawai‘i, USA"A refreshing anthropology of a moment of commemoration... it should reach across several disciplinary areas." - Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow, UK"Sumartojo’s international essay collection on the tangible and intangible legacies of the First World War raises timely questions of affects and politics through suggestive evocations of atmospheres attuned to discourses and feelings."Marlene Briggs, Journal of British Studies