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Newsletter 20 – 26 November
Dear all,
Due to the fact that there was no PGF Seminar last week, we are pleased to announce that we have not one, not three, but two(!) seminars for you to enjoy this Wednesday! We hope to see you there, or at one of the other seminars being given this week!
Best wishes,
The PGF Committee
PGF SEMINARS:
Date/Time: Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00. Venue: Room 1.03, Armstrong Building.
‘BACKWATER ECONOMIES? A FOODWAY FRAMEWORK FOR EXAMINING WETLAND WORLDVIEWS IN THE PREHISTORIC PAST‘ BY PHD CANDIDATE FLOOR HUISMAN (DURHAM UNIVERSITY)
One of the major problems we face when trying to study past worldviews is the way in which our own, modern western worldview influences our research, from the questions we ask, to our final interpretations. Within the sub-discipline of wetland archaeology, for instance, we often ask why past communities chose to live in such marginal landscapes. We assume that wetlands were ‘special’ in some way, either as ‘ritual’ or ‘sacred’ places, or as resource rich environments. We assume a particular worldview amongst the wetland communities living there, one focussed on ‘the wild’, which sets them apart from contemporary, ‘domestic’ ‘dryland’ communities. Yet rather than assuming the presence of such opposing worldviews, we should assess to what extent the landscape or environment in which people lived truly affected their worldview and the formation of particular community identities. This paper will explore how we may be able to do this by considering prehistoric communities’ (inter)relation with the environment through a study of past foodways and environmental change. It will present the preliminary results of my PhD research which examines the use of domestic and wild plant and animals in relation to a changing environment in and around the later prehistoric East Anglian Fens (c. 4000 BC-40 AD). It asks if and when a wetland worldview and accompanying identities came into being as the East Anglian Fens changed from a dryland basin into Britain’s largest wetland. Thus, this paper explores a new approach to understanding past worldviews, by integrating archaeological with environmental data. It is hoped this will allow us to move beyond our modern worldviews and gain a better understanding of past worldviews and the way these shaped communities.
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‘A CONTROVERSIAL TRIBUNICIAN STATUTE: THE PLEBISCITUM CLAUDIANUM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR (218 BC)’ BY PHD CANDIDATE ROBERTO CIUCCIOVE (NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY)
The Plebiscitum Claudianum was controversial tribunician bill, which dealt with very significant economic matters especially related to sea-trade, involving also, at its very core, the political relations between the senatorial elite and the emerging equestrian order. The year 218 BC represented a crucial moment in the history of Rome and the whole Mediterranean world. We are at the very beginning of the Second Punic War, a conflict that will reshape the politicalmilitary order for many decades to come. In the same year a lex Claudia was proposed and passed. As usual, there will be refreshments in the form of tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
HISTORY SEMINAR: ‘THE SACRED AND THE SATIATED: HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND THE LIMINAL SPACE OF BLACK RESISTANCE’ BY PEGGY BRUNACHE (UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE)
Date/Time: Wednesday 22 November 2017, 16:00. Venue: Room 1.05, Armstrong Building.
Traditional scholarship of the Black diaspora has predominantly focused on the examination of primary and secondary historical documents. Moreover, the historiography of slavery of the French Antilles, for example, has been weaker than other regions, especially when compared to British and American counterparts. More recent historical studies have shifted to critically engage larger questions as to how enslaved and free black communities actively participated in strategies to either escape or circumvent gendered and racialized systems of oppression. Since the late 1980s, historical archaeology has risen to the challenge to provide a unique contribution to further our understanding of past lifeways of the Black Atlantic via engendered methodological frameworks for studying artefact patterning and examining the nature of material culture. This presentation hopes to progress critical dialogue on Black agency and choices by engaging place, material culture, and space, through an alternative understanding of conceptual sites of conflict and resistance. I will consider two geographically disparate 19th century archaeological sites, one in the French Caribbean and the other in North America, associated with the slave economy to consider new transformative theories on Black resistance as liminal space for identity formation and societal transformation. This production of knowledge serves as an exploration for re-historicising the past through an intersectionality of structurally hierarchical categories of difference in the archaeological study of enslaved Africans and their descendants. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/thesacredandthesatiated.html
CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘PHILOLOGICAL NETWORKS: EDITING THE CLASSICAL TEXT IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CAMBRIDGE’ BY DR KATHERINE EAST (NEWCASTLE)
Date/Time: Wednesday 22 November 2017, 17:00. Venue: Room 2.50, Armstrong Building. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/philologicalnetworks.html
ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR: ‘TEXTILES AND TRADE IN THE ATLANTIC IN THE 18TH CENTURY’ BY PROFESSOR GIORGIO RIELLO (WARWICK)
Date/Time: Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:00. Venue: Room 2.16, Armstrong Building. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/textilesandtradeintheatlanticinthe18thcentury.html
EVENT: ‘MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND THE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN AT FIFTY’ BY DR KERRY TAYLOR (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, THE CITADEL, CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, USA)
Date/Time: Tuesday 21 November 2017, 18:00. Venue: Room G.33, Barbara Strang Teaching Centre.
A specialist in twentieth-century US, labour, African American and oral history, Dr Kerry Taylor came to the Citadel after serving as the Associate Director of the Southern Oral History Program in Chapel Hill. He co-edited volume 4 and volume 5 of the Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. (University of California Press, 2000 and 2005) and American Labor and the Cold War (Rutgers University Press, 2004). In addition to directing The Citadel Oral History Program, Taylor has been extensively involved in grassroots organising in Charleston and across the South, particularly in the “Fight for 15” movement to organise fast food workers for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and union recognition. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/events/item/martinlutherkingjrandthepoorpeoplescampaignatfifty.html
EXHIBITION: ‘PATHS ACROSS WATER: LOST STORIES OF TYNESIDE AND THE CARIBBEAN’
Until 26 November. Venue: Old Low Light in North Shields
Come for the history, the poetry table, the oral stories, a video artwork reacting to shifts in the wind outside, a story-telling booth that will create both an oral archive and a digitally mixed soundscape exploring people’s responses to the sea and to the paths of migration connecting the North East with not only the Caribbean but also the rest of the world. And so much more.
MUSEUM EXHIBITION: ‘FRONTIER FASHION: GLASS BANGLES OF THE ROMAN NORTH’
Until 3 January 2018. Venue: Great North Museum
A mini exhibition Frontier Fashion: Glass Bangles of the Roman North that focuses on Newcastle University archaeologist Dr Tatiana Ivleva’s research on Roman glass bangles in Britain. Tatiana is particularly interested in the popularity of glass bangles in Northern Britain, on both sides of Hadrian’s Wall. A small number of fascinating artefacts are on show in the display which is taking place in the new temporary exhibition space, formerly the Mithraeum. Further details can be found here.
Newsletter 30th October – 5th November
Hi everyone!
With the days getting shorter, the temperature dropping, and clouds gathering, we can truly say: ‘Winter is coming’. The PGF Committee, however, wants to stay in denial for a little while more, so our very own History PhD candidate Ayshah Johnston will take us to the warm, tropical island of Barbados during the second PGF Seminar of this semester! We hope to see you there (we have hot drinks to keep you warm!) or at one of the other seminars this week!
Best wishes,
The PGF Committee
PGF SEMINAR: ‘”PITY MY DISTRESS”: PAUPER WOMEN’S APPEALS FOR AID UNDER THE 1880 POOR RELIEF ACT IN BARBADOS’ BY AYSHAH JOHNSTON (HISTORY PHD CANDIDATE NEWCASTLE)
Date/Time: Wednesday 01 November 2017, 13:00. Venue: Room 1.03, Armstrong Building.
The historiography of Poor Relief has focused largely on the oppressive laws to which the poor were subjected for over a century after emancipation, and on the evolution of relief practices from meagre allowances and compulsory almshouse admittance to developed social assistance policies and modern medical care. This paper moves away from these discussions towards an illumination of the experiences of people living in poverty through a selection of letters written by paupers to the Inspector of Poor in St. Philip, Barbados, seeking relief for themselves or their families. In a parish where, according to contemporary observation, the Poor Law Guardians applied the harshest criteria in determining suitability for relief, these rare surviving letters are a poignant window onto the hardships, fears and hopes of the poor in late nineteenth century Barbados. By presenting these touching vignettes this paper seeks to reveal a level of care and advocacy within families and communities which challenges the official notion that abandonment and weak kinship ties were the root causes of destitution. While they could not influence the law, the writers did their utmost to plead their cases and persuade the Poor Law Guardians to assist them. Ayshah is in her third year of a PhD on Poor Relief in the Anglophone Caribbean, a collaborative doctoral award from Newcastle University and The National Archives. She is a museum educator and specialises in fusing academic research with public engagement. Her passion besides history is literature and she is a three-time winner of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s annual short story competition, with two of the stories subsequently published in an anthology of winning entries. Refreshments in the form of tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided!
ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘THE NORTHERN PICTS PROJECT: LATE ROMAN AND POST-ROMAN SOCIETIES IN NORTHERN BRITAIN C.300-900 AD’ BY DR GORDON NOBLE (ABERDEEN).
Date/Time: Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:00. Venue: Room 1.04, Armstrong Building.
The Picts are a ‘lost people of Europe’ and a past society of enduring public fascination. First mentioned in late Roman writings as a collection of troublesome social groupings north of the Roman frontier, the Picts went on to dominate northern and eastern Scotland until late first millennium AD. Northern Picts is a project that aims to uncover the archaeological traces of Pictish society in northern Scotland.
Read more about the project here. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/thenorthernpictsproject.html
CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘THUCYDIDES’ PERICLEAN SPEECHES’ BY PROFESSOR ELIZABETH IRWIN (COLUMBIA).
Date/Time: Wednesday 01 November 2017, 17:00. Venue: Room 2.50, Armstrong Building.
Find more information here http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/thucydidespericleanspeeches.html
ARCHAEOLOGY TALK: ‘THE EXTENDED LIFE COURSE AND PREHISTORIC EUROPEAN MORTUARY PRACTISES’ BY CHRIS FOWLER
Date/Time: Thursday 2 November, 15:00. Venue: Room 2.49, Armstrong Building (one off room change to the usual strand schedule).
Chris Fowler will be presenting (part 2) of his talk on “The Extended Life Course and Prehistoric European Mortuary Practises”. Feedback from different periods and disciplines welcome.
Postgraduate Forum Seminars – Semester 1 Timetable
This year we have scheduled many exciting seminars and talks. It was absolute pleasure to get such a good turnout for our first proper seminar last week. Don’t worry if you’ve missed it, here is the timetable for what else is on this semester. Make sure to write the dates down in your calendars and be there (or be square!).
We are looking forward to seeing all your lovely faces!
Wednesday 18th October, 1-2pm, Armstrong 1.03
Tom Whitfield, Archaeology PhD candidate, Newcastle University
‘It’s Always Sunny in Colonial Williamsburg’ – The Virginian Gentry have an Identity Crisis [1764-1775]
Wednesday 1st November, 1-2pm, Armstrong 1.03
Ayshah Johnston, History PhD candidate, Newcastle University
‘”Pity My Distress”: Pauper women’s appeals for aid under the 1880 Poor Relief Act in Barbados’
Wednesday 8th November, 1-2pm, Armstrong 1.03
Thomas Stewart, History PhD candidate, Edinburgh University
‘The impact of the 1973 Dundee East by-election on the SNP in Dundee’.
Wednesday 22nd November, 1-2pm, Armstrong 1.03
Roberto Ciucciove, Classics & Ancient History, Newcastle University
‘A controversial tribunician statute: the plebiscitum Claudianum at the beginning of the Second Punic War (218 BC)’
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Floor Huisman, Archaeology PhD candidate, Durham University
Backwater economies? A foodway framework for examining wetland worldviews in the prehistoric past
Wednesday 8th December, 1-2pm, Armstrong 1.03
Christopher Whittaker, Archaeology Masters, Newcastle University
Breedon Hill, Leicestershire: an archaeological investigation at a multi-period hilltop site.
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Rowan Thompson, History PhD candidate, Northumbria University
‘England expects every man will do his duty’: Trafalgar Day, Naval Commemoration and National Identity, 1895-1939
Wednesday 13th December, 1-2, Armstrong 1.03
Madeleine Pelling, History of Art PhD candidate, University of York
Writing the Museum: Mary Hamilton’s A Catalogue of Curiosities at Bulstrode and Horace Walpole’s The Duchess of Portland’s Museum
Newsletter 23rd-29th October
Hi all,
Here is our newsletter for this week! You will notice there is no PGF Seminar this week 🙁 but we have compiled a number of other super interesting events for you! Unfortunately, some of the seminars will overlap, so unless you have a Time-Turner (in which case, please give a seminar on that!) you will have to choose wisely.
GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY MASTERCLASS BY PROFESSOR FRANÇOIS LISSARRAGUE (EHESS AND CURRENT LEVENTIS VISITING PROFESSOR AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY)
Date/Time: Wednesday 25 October 2017, 13:30-15:00. Venue: Room 2.49, Armstrong Building.
ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘LIVING WITH MONUMENTS: RECENT RESEARCH ON NEOLITHIC ACTIVITY AT AND AROUND AVEBURY.’ BY PROFESSOR JOSHUA POLLARD (SOUTHAMPTON).
Date/Time: Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00. Venue: Room 2.16, Armstrong Building. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/recentresearchonneolithicactivityatandaroundavebury.html
HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘MARRIAGE, SLAVERY AND ARABIAN IDENTITY IN LATE ANTIQUITY.’ BY MAJIED ROBINSON (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)
Date/Time: Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00. Venue: Room 1.05, Armstrong Building.
In this talk, Majied Robinson will demonstrate how statistical analysis of gender relations amongst the tribe of Muhammad can be used to create a new narrative of tribal and ethnic belonging in early Islamic history. Among the topics addressed will be the political and economic origins of Mecca, the emergence of the Quraysh as a distinct tribal entity, and Arabian ethnogenesis in the post-conquest period. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/marriageslaveryandarabianidentityinlateantiquity.html
CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘BODY AND ARMOUR: HEROIC WARRIORS IN ATTIC VASE PAINTING’ BY PROFESSOR FRANÇOIS LISSARRAGUE (EHESS)
Date/Time: Wednesday 25 October 2017, 17:00. Venue: Room 2.50, Armstrong Building. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/bodyandarmourheroicwarriorsinatticvasepainting.html
ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘IBERIAN ENTANGLEMENTS: THE USE AND REUSE OF ATHENIAN POTTERY IN ANCIENT SPAIN’ BY DR DIANA RODRÍGUEZ PEREZ (OXFORD)
Date/Time: Thursday 26 October 2017, 16:00. Venue: Room 2.16, Armstrong Building http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/iberianentanglementstheuseandreuseofathenianpotteryin ancientspain.html
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And to finish off the exciting events for this week, if you’re looking for a trip to Durham:
The Modern European History Group at Durham has the following event:
‘THE GREEK COLONELS’ – REFIME, THE TRANSNATIONAL ANTI-TORTURE CAMPAIGN AND THE RISE OF GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS’ BY KONSTANTINA MARAGKOU (LSE); SEMINAR
Date/Time: Thursday 26 October 2017, 5.15pm. Venue: History Department, Seminar Room 1.
Enjoy, and we’ll catch you next week!
The PGF Committee
Newsletter 16th-22nd October
Hi everyone! This week there are multiple research seminars, including a wonderful PGF Seminar(!), going on at the School this week. Furthermore, there is a temporary museum exhibition at the Great North Museum. Hopefully we will catch you at one of the events! Best wishes, The PGF Committee
PGF SEMINAR: ‘‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG’ – THE VIRGINIAN GENTRY HAVE AN IDENTITY CRISIS [1764-1775]’ BY THOMAS WHITFIELD (NEWCASTLE ARCHAEOLOGY PHD CANDIDATE)
Date/Time: Wednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00.
Venue: Room 1.03, Armstrong Building.
In this seminar he will give a brief overview of his research findings, discuss what led him [a PhD Candidate researching eighteenth-century North-East England] to undertake research into Colonial Virginia and talk about the experience of working in an institution where his output will be incorporated into the public interpretations of one of America’s most popular tourist attractions. Throughout the 1760’s Virginia’s gentry were dogged by a succession of political crises and scandals; both relating to wider imperial affairs and to local, provincial matters. Unsettled and unnerved by these scandals and crises, the political elites of the colony were necessitated to re-habilitate their public images if they wanted to survive re-election and hold onto their seats in the House of Burgesses. In his research, Tom uses a combination of textual, visual and material sources to demonstrate just how Virginia’s gentry went about trying to rehabilitate their image by shifting their political alignments between two key individuals of the period, John Wilkes and William Pitt [the elder].
CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘HIPPONAX (AND ARCHILOCHUS) IN THE MUSEUM: ANCIENT SCHOLARSHIP ON ARCHAIC GREEK IAMBOS.’ BY DR ENRICO EMANUELE PRODI (OXFORD)
Date/Time: Wednesday 18 October 2017, 17:00.
Venue: Room 2.50, Armstrong Building. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/seminars/item/hipponaxandarchilochusinthemuseum.html
ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH SEMINAR: ‘THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE BALTIC CRUSADES: NEW UNDERSTANDINGS OF CONQUEST, COLONISATION AND RELIGIOUS CONVERSION IN MEDIEVAL NE EUROPE.’ BY DR ALEKSANDER GRZEGORZ PLUSKOWSKI (READING).
Date/Time: Thursday 19 October 2017, 16:00.
Venue: Room 2.16.
They constructed castles, encouraged colonists, developed towns and introduced Christianity. At a time of deteriorating climate, their impact on the local environment, especially plants and animals, would have been profound. Since many aspects of the natural world were sacred to the Baltic tribes, this impact would be synonymous with the cultural changes that created a new world at this frontier of Christendom. (read further)
MUSEUM EXHIBITION: ‘FRONTIER FASHION: GLASS BANGLES OF THE ROMAN NORTH’
Date/Time: 12 October 2017 – 3 January 2018.
Venue: Great North Museum
A mini exhibition Frontier Fashion: Glass Bangles of the Roman North that focuses on Newcastle University archaeologist Dr Tatiana Ivleva’s research on Roman glass bangles in Britain. Tatiana is particularly interested in the popularity of glass bangles in Northern Britain, on both sides of Hadrian’s Wall. A small number of fascinating artefacts are on show in the display which is taking place in the new temporary exhibition space, formerly the Mithraeum. Further details can be found here.
Lunchtime talks at Durham University
If you are looking for more opportunities to talk about your research, we offer you another one – organised by our friends in the Department of Archaeology at Durham.
The Prehistory of Eurasia Research group has started a series of lunchtime talks. Meeting times are each week on Tuesday from 1-2pm. In these informal sessions members of the group and others working on prehistoric topics present their latest research with each presentation being c. 20-25 mins long and followed by a few questions and discussion.
They are currently looking for papers on any topic within Eurasian Prehistory. It is another great way to get your research out there! Just email Floor Huisman at f.j.huisman@durham.ac.uk to get more information and available dates.
Welcome
We would like to welcome all new postgraduates to Newcastle and of course welcome back everyone else!
We are really excited to meet you all!
The committee has changed quite a bit this year and we have some great ideas for the coming months so watch this space!
So what do we do? In a nutshell:
- Seminar series
- Socials
- Christmas and end of year parties
- Journal
- Blogging and other social media
- Conference
As we all know, doing your PhD or MA is hardly a walk in the park; everyone is isolated by the uniqueness of their research, which can make it seem like no one really understands what you are going through. We also know that it can be difficult for people to get involved if they don’t live locally, if they work, or are doing their Postgraduate degree part time. That is why, this year, we are making a concerted effort to match our lively presence within the School as well as online – find us also on twitter and facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/NewcastlePGF
https://www.facebook.com/groups/PGFNewcastle/
We aim to get to know each other better and share our research interests. We will use this space to advertise our events and update you through our monthly newsletters. In the next few days we will collecting information for our postgraduate profiles, which we would like to post up on this site for you all to know who we are and what we do.
There is lots going on, so we hope to see you all at our events and perhaps even blogging for us!
The PGF committee.
14th Annual Postgraduate Forum Conference Program
14th Annual Postgraduate Forum Conference
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Newcastle University
19th May 2016
‘Movement’
Time | Programme | |
9.00-9.50 | Registration and coffee (Armstrong Reception Rooms) | |
9.50-10.00 | Chair’s welcome (Armstrong Reception Rooms) | |
10.00-11.30 | Panel I: Cultural movement (4 papers)
chair: tbc (Armstrong Reception Rooms) |
Fernando Sanchez (Trinity College, Dublin) “(Re)constructing cultural distinctiveness: cultural diplomacy or propaganda? The 1977-1979 touring exhibition, Treasures of Early Irish Art, 1500 B.C. to 1500 A.D.” |
Amber Roy (Newcastle University) “Identifying movement and use in ground and polished stone” | ||
Lakshmi-Pearl Quigley (University of Edinburgh) “Movement and ‘In‐between‐ness’: Liminality in theories about difference in ‘race’ and gender history” | ||
11.30-12.00 | Tea/coffee I (Armstrong Reception Rooms) | |
12.00-13.30 | Panel II: Movement and positioning (3 papers)
chair: tbc (Armstrong Reception Rooms) |
Lorena Zanin (University of Leeds) “Who comes, who goes and who stays: movements and interests in the North eastern corner of Italy straddling the foundation of Aquileia.” |
Sara Borrello (Newcastle University) “Moving Matrons: The case of Servilia” | ||
Kimberley Foy (Durham University) “’Keeping State’: Space, performance and languages of diplomacy at the Early Stuart Court, 1603-1642.” | ||
13.30-14.30 | Lunch (Armstrong Reception Rooms) | |
14.30-16.30 | Panel III: Social movement (4 papers)
chair: tbc |
Gorka Etxebarria (University of the Basque Country) “From the imminent breakup with Francoism to the Basque National Liberation Movement: the role of ETA armed organisation in a changing political environment (1974‐1983)” |
Oznur Ozdemir (University of Leeds) “Re‐evaluating an Early Islamic Mass Movement: Looking at the Abbasid Revolution from an
Economic Perspective” |
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Emilio Zucchetti (Newcastle University) “Clashes and riots in ancient Rome: a postmodern perspective on Roman social struggles.” | ||
Thomas Whitfield (Newcastle University) “’Nothing but Serjeant Glynn is to be heard in the streets’– The role of movement in creating a radical nexus in later-eighteenth-century Newcastle upon Tyne.” | ||
16.30-17.00 | Tea/coffee II (Armstrong Reception Rooms) | |
17.00-18.00 | Keynote address (room G17)
chair: tbc |
Graham Smith (Royal Holloway) “Movement in oral history: Revisiting Mrs Smereka remembering her Ostarbeiter journey” |
18.00- | Prize giving and wine reception (Armstrong Reception Rooms) | |
19.30- | Dinner at Piccolino |
Call for Papers – 14th Annual Postgraduate Forum Conference
Call for Papers
14th Annual Postgraduate Forum Conference
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
Newcastle University
19th May 2017
‘Movement’
This interdisciplinary one-day conference seeks to bring together Postgraduate students studying histories relating to the theme of Movement. How do we study the past, not as static, but as dynamic and changing? How does the movement from one context to another change how we interpret evidence? What are the effects of movement on societies, material, and intellectual cultures? How has the idea of movement, or a movement, been used for political, social, or artistic purposes? We welcome any papers exploring the movement of people, objects, and ideas.
We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers from all postgraduate historians, classicists, ancient historians, and archaeologists. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Migration and population movements
- Journeys and travel
- Trade and connections
- Social movements
- Cultural, Literary or Philosophical movements
- Scientific movements
- Movement of/within the body
- Movement of soul/emotions
- Physical movement such as gesture or dance
We also invite poster submissions from postgraduate students. In order to offer the opportunity to present work in the earlier stages of research, poster submissions are not necessarily required to fit with the theme of the conference.
The PGF Committee is more than happy to announce that keynote this year will be presented by: Dr. Graham Smith (Royal Holloway, University of London), with a paper entitled “Movement in oral history: Revisiting Mrs Smereka remembering her Ostarbeiter journey”.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words nshspgf@ncl.ac.uk by 10th April 2016. If you have any ideas, questions or enquiries, please feel free to get in touch.
Tea/coffee and lunch will be provided, and the conference will be followed by a reception where there will be prizes for the best paper and poster. Afterwards, there will be an optional dinner, at extra charge.
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https://www.societies.ncl.ac.uk/pgfnewcastle/