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For the new academic year we are planning a postgraduate symposium and in 2021 an online conference.
28 November 2020, 10:00–11:45 (online event)
Explore underwater heritage and naval history with experts from the University of Plymouth – filmed on location at several of Plymouth’s most renowned maritime landmarks.
The Land ahoy! talks are an exciting opportunity for all to learn more about the people that work to protect our seas.
The disaster that obscured near catastrophe: a fresh examination of the German S-Boat attack on Exercise Tiger (April 1944)
Join Dr Harry Bennett,
Associate Professor in History, as he provides new evidence on the 1944
Exercise Tiger and German attack on convoy T4 which resulted in the
deaths of over 600 American service personnel. A captivating insight to
what the newest research has revealed.
Women and the navy in the Age of Sail: a historical perspective
This fascinating talk explores the history of naval women in the 17th and 18th centuries. Dr Elaine Murphy,
Associate Professor of Maritime History, discusses the women's
experiences and interactions with the Royal Navy, from women who went to
sea on men-of-war to the women who worked in the naval dockyards.
‘Never before has sea-power played a greater part’: The First World War in maritime perspective
When
we think of the First World War, we often think of the trenches of the
Western Front and the battlefields of the Somme and Passchendaele. This
talk will offer a different perspective, placing it in a global context
and highlighting the critical role played by the Royal Navy and allied
navies. Louis Halewood,
Philip Nicholas Lecturer in Maritime History, explores a new
interpretation of the ways in which sea power mattered in the early 20th
century.
Protecting the UK's Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH)
The UK
has a rich UCH, ranging from pre-history to 20th-century military
conflicts, situated in its territorial waters. This interesting
conversation with Jason Lowther,
Associate Head of School (Law), and Mike Williams, Visiting Professor
and elected Chair of Devon and Severn Inshore Fisheries and Conservation
Authority, explores the ways in which we protect heritage assets, how
we enforce that protection, and how we can work to improve protection as
UK waters become more heavily exploited.
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Zoom Conference Thursday 27 May 2021, 9:00 to 17:00 (UTC+1 = BST)
Writers such as W G Sebald and Sven Lindqvist employed literary travel writing to emotionally and psychologically translate their fieldwork experiences into their writings about place, while Walter Benjamin combined ideas of narrative knowing with practices that offer public engagement and impact for his ideas. This conference explores how methods of contemporary literary travel writing can be brought into the work of academic researchers, writers and professionals in the fields of cultural heritage interpretation.
Proposals for papers are invited from researchers and from heritage and tourism practitioners that explore narrative non-fiction as a literary form or as professional practice for writing about place. Established academics and postgraduate or doctoral researchers are encouraged to submit their proposals. Further, pedagogic approaches to teaching interpretative and writing practices for these fields are also encouraged.
We are delighted to announce our
Keynote speaker, literary travel writer and pyschogeographer Gareth E
Rees, author of Unofficial
Britain: Journeys through Unexpected Places (2020), Carpark Life (2019) and
the Marshland: Dreams and
Nightmares on the edge of London (2013).
Deadline for Proposals is midnight UTC on December 15, 2020.
Proposals must include the title of the paper, author’s name, email and affiliation. Please include a description of the paper in up to 300 words plus two or three indicative bibliographic references.
Please email proposals to: Dr Charlie Mansfield, Co-Director, Cornerstone Heritage Research Centre, University of Plymouth. Email charlie.mansfield@plymouth.ac.uk.
In addition, the conference plans
to display posters digitally, in A0-size, single-slide landscape format in
PowerPoint, for delegates to download and view offline. Please propose
these by email in a Word document with the title of the poster, name, email and
affiliation and brief description of the work plus two indicative bibliographic
references.
Conference language: English. Zoom will be used.
Please follow conference announcements on our Twitter Channel.
11:00 am Wednesday 2 September 2020
Jane Webb talks through:
11:00 am Wednesday 9 September 2020
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Please register with the email address that you prefer
to use for MS Team Meetings, and we will send you an invite with a link to the
session.
For the new academic year we are planning a postgraduate symposium and in 2021 an online conference.