{"id":1636,"date":"2026-03-07T09:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:48:26","slug":"annual-postgraduate-conference-19th-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/2026\/03\/07\/annual-postgraduate-conference-19th-may-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Postgraduate Conference \u2013 19th May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We are excited to invite you to our 19th Annual Postgraduate Conference, on the 19th May 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This virtual conference aims to encourage discussion around \u2018adaptation\u2019, both in terms of historical study and practise in the time of the pandemic, and of adaptation (or lack thereof) to political, economic, environmental, social, and cultural change across societies and time periods. Papers will be presented in cross-disciplinary thematic panels, and we will be hearing from postgraduate students from across the globe as well as a little closer to home in Newcastle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are delighted to be joined by Yale University\u2019s Professor Feisal Mohamed <\/strong>as our keynote speaker, with his paper entitled Land and Sea: The Seventeenth-Century Adaptation of the English Political Imaginary<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone welcome \u2013 see the link below to register!<\/strong> https:\/\/eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/151199121643<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference schedule (all times are BST)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8:45-9:00 \u2013 Welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STREAM A<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel \u2013 Material Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by Eleanor Harrison<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:00- 9:20 \u2013 <\/em>Liz Shaw (Newcastle University), \u2018Adapting Roman motifs in regional brooch design.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:20 \u2013 09:40 \u2013 Goran Durdevic (Capital Normal University), \u2018Magic, illusion and adaption: reflection and mirrors in Qin \u2013 Han and Roman <\/em>empires.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:40 \u2013 10:00 \u2013 David Johnson (Newcastle University), \u2018Adapting the British Home in the Empire.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00 \u2013 10:20 Q&A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel \u2013 Adaptation of Historical Practice and Media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by Rob Granger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30 \u2013 10:50 \u2013 John Pearson (Newcastle University), \u2018Camera, Lights, Action! A Personal Approach to using Existing Film and Video as an Ethnoarchaeological Source.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:50 \u2013 11:10 \u2013 Hannah James Louwerse (Newcastle University), \u2018Staying flexible: how to build an oral history archive.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:10 \u2013 11:30 \u2013 Kieran Shackleton (University of Glasgow), \u2018Adapting the Holocaust Memory Centre: Rethinking Memory Seventy-Six Years Later.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30 \u2013 11:50 \u2013 Rebecca Whiting (University of Glasgow), \u2018Re-thinking rights to archives.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:50 \u2013 12:10 \u2013 Q&A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel \u2013 Ideology & Belief<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by Leanne Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:10 \u2013 13:30 \u2013 Olivia Kinsman (University of Bristol), \u2018SEKHMET: An Ancient Goddess for Modern Times.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:30 \u2013 13:50 \u2013 Daniel Sutton (St John\u2019s College Oxford), \u2018When Words Won\u2019t Adapt: Language and Authority in Tacitus\u2019 Annals.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:50 \u2013 14:10 \u2013 Samantha Dobbie (University of Glasgow), \u2018Adapting to Revolution: Women in Revolutionary Paris, October 1789.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:10 \u2013 14:30 \u2013 Katharine McCrossan (University of Glasgow), \u2018Co-operation, Competition, and Consumerism: The Scottish Co-operative Movement in the 1950s.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:30 \u2013 14:50 Q&A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel \u2013 Mobility & Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by Rob Granger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:50 \u2013 15:10 \u2013 Giulio Leghissa (University of Toronto), \u2018SB XIV 11979 and Women Mobility between North Africa and Egypt.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:10 \u2013 15:30 \u2013 Neil McClelland (University of Glasgow), \u2018Natives\u2019 and Foreigners\u2019 Mutual Adaptation in Late-Medieval Florence.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:30 \u2013 15:50 \u2013 Anais Delcol (University of Glasgow), \u2018Adaptation to a new culture as a way of reinventing female identity.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:50 \u2013 16:10 \u2013 Daniel Riddell (Northumbria University), \u2018Scandinavian and German Merchant Migrants to Newcastle in the 19th Century: British Businessmen?.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:10 \u2013 16:30 Q&A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:40 \u2013 17:40 \u2013 Keynote speaker <\/strong>\u2013 Feisal Mohamed (Yale University), \u2018Land and Sea: The Seventeenth-Century Adaptation of the English Political Imaginary\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:40 \u2013 18:00 -Prize giving & closing speeches<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STREAM B<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel \u2013 Landscapes and Their Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by Jerome Ruddick<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30 \u2013 10:50 \u2013 Laura Stops (University of Exeter), \u2018Politics, Passages and Peripheries: The adaptation of the Porta Esquilina for a new imperial age.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:50 \u2013 11:10 \u2013 Katerina Gottardo (Durham University), \u2018Adaptation to the environmental context: the substructures of caveae in Roman theatres in the northern-central Italy.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:10 \u2013 11:30 \u2013 Huilin Yang (University of Glasgow), \u2018Exploring the role of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean ecosystem using archaeological evidence and the Annales framework.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30 \u2013 11:50 \u2013 Mark Mather (University of Queensland), \u2018Roman Supply Lines \u2013 How the Gallic Landscape Necessitated Adaptation.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:50 \u2013 12:10 \u2013 Q&A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel \u2013 Religion & Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by Harriet Palin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:10 \u2013 13:30 \u2013 Arnau Lario-Devesa (University of Barcelona), \u2018Re-editing the past, or how to fabricate continuity: The case-study of the roman sanctuary of Can Modolell (Cabrera de Mar, Barcelona) and the neighbourhood of Saint John.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:30 \u2013 13:50 \u2013 \u00d6znur \u00d6zdemir (Sakarya University), \u2018Muslims\u2019 Fiscal Adaptation After the First Islamic Conquests.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:50 \u2013 14:10 \u2013 Hina Khalid (Newcastle University), \u2018How Abbasid women thrived and possessed agency even under a challenging period and rule that held customs and practices of misogyny.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:10 \u2013 14:30 \u2013 Q&A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel -Reinterpreting & Reusing the Past<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by Katherine Waugh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:50 \u2013 15:10 \u2013 Jessica Habib (University of Glasgow), \u2018Debating the Colonial Identity of the Ottoman Empire: Caliphate and Colonizer?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:10 \u2013 15:30 \u2013 Shelby Judge (University of Glasgow), \u2018Madeline Miller\u2019s Circe as the archetype of contemporary feminist adaptations of Greek myth\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:30 \u2013 15:50 \u2013 Elly Polignano (Newcastle University), Marc.Arg. AP 5.63: multiple levels of adaptation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:50 \u2013 16:10 \u2013 Berklee Baum (University of Oxford), \u2018The Adaptability of Memorialization and Memory.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:10 \u2013 16:30 Q&A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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