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Disruptions!
12th Annual Postgraduate Forum Conference 2015
22nd May 2015
Research Beehive, Old Library Building
9.00 Tea/Coffee Reception
9.20 Introduction
Panel 1 – Chair: Sam Petty
9.30 Skylar Arbuthnot (Newcastle, PhD) The End of Extramural Settlements in the Hadrian’s Wall Frontier Zone
10.00 Samuel Pearson (Durham, MA) Hereditary Heretics: The Experience of Conversion in Lollard Communities, c. 1500-1550
10.30 Victoria Hughes (Newcastle, PhD) “What an evil the Roman world is breeding!” Responses to the Emperor Julian’s Reign
Break
11.15 Keynote Speaker – Harry Dickinson (Edinburgh) British Caricatures and the French Revolution.
Lunch
Panel 2 – Chair: Lauren Emslie
1.00 Stephanie Moat (Newcastle, PhD) Mimetic Practice in Religious Iconography: A Case Study of Roman Britain
1.30 Andrew Marriot (Newcastle, PhD) Disruptive Influences and a Lack of Discipline? World War 1 Trench Art
2.00 Chris Mowat (Newcastle PhD) Calpurnia and the Disruption of the Roman State
Break
Panel 3 – Chair: Amy Shields
2.45 John Burke (Newcastle, PhD) A Lost City in the Sand: The Memorial Legacy of Conflict through the Greek Cypriot ‘ghost-town’ of Famagusta
3.15 Antony Stewart (Newcastle, PhD) The Disruption of Leonce Joachim, 1934: How the anthropologist’s informant became the subject of an international debate on Haitian psychology, Vodou and mental health
Break and Poster Session
Panel 4 – Chair: David Lowther
4.30 Steven Server (Oxford, MSc) Extralaw and Disorder: Disruptions in Political Culture Surrounding State Risk Management, 1964-1976
5.00 Ben Morton (Newcastle, PhD) Disruptions, Scales and the Medieval Village: Questioning the Nucleated-Dispersed Paradigm
5.30 – Conclusion and Thanks
6.00 – Wine Reception – Student Common Room