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The Society for Landscape Studies |
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE 22 SePtember 2018 From Tees to Tweed: new perspectives on landscape history and archaeologyNewcastle University |
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The Society for Landscape Studies will hold its annual autumn conference at Newcastle University, sponsored by the McCord Centre for Landscape in association with the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. A wealth of new work led by researchers from community groups, Universities and commercial archaeologists has begun to show the history of north-east England’s landscape in a new light. At this meeting eight papers will consider the region’s changing landscapes from prehistory to the twentieth century.
Registration costs £24 (£20 for members of the Society for Landscape Studies, the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Newcastle University). Registration includes tea, coffee and lunch. To register for the Society for Landscape Studies annual conference please use this link:
A wealth of new work led by researchers from community groups, Universities and commercial archaeologists has begun to show the history of north-east England’s landscape in a new light. At this meeting eight papers will consider the region’s changing landscapes from prehistory to the twentieth century. Registration costs £24 (£20 for members of the Society for Landscape Studies, the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Newcastle University). Registration includes tea, coffee and lunch.
PROGRAMME
9.30 Arrival and registration - Tea, coffee, biscuits 10.00 David Astbury (Newcastle University) - A statistical analysis approach to studying the orientation of settlements and boundaries in Northumberland 10.30 Rob Collins (Newcastle University) - Hadrian's Wall - Monumentalising a community archaeology landscape 11.00 Morning break - Tea, coffee, juice, pastries
11.30 Patrick Gleeson (Queen’s University Belfast) - 'Reframing peripatetic kingship: Maelmin and the archaeology of royal estates' 12.00 Sam Turner (Newcastle University) - Landscape and social change in middle-Saxon Northumbria 12.30 Buffet lunch
13.30 Colm O’Brien and Max Adams (Bernician Studies Group) - An early medieval woodland landscape in south Northumberland 14.00 Richard Carlton (The Archaeological Practice Ltd) - The landscape of Lindisfarne 14.30 Afternoon break - Tea, coffee, cake 15.00 Caron Newman (Newcastle University) - Understanding the evolution of a designed landscape at Rothley Lakes, Wallington, Northumberland 15.30 Ronan O’Donnell (Durham University) - Introducing the landscape of the great depression in the North East 16.00 Summary and close
Participants may be interested to know that the fifth biennial IALA Landscape Archaeology Conference will take place at Newcastle University the previous week, from 18-20 September. More information about the LAC conference can be found here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/mccordcentre/lac2018/
McCord Centre for Landscape, School of History, Classics and Archaeology |