Please find below details of the 2009 Historical Research Group postgraduate
and undergraduate conference on 'Practising Historical Geography'.
The conference will be held on the 4th of November, 09:00-17:00, at Royal
Holloway, University of London, Windsor Building.
For further information and to register for this event please contact Briony
McDonagh at [log in to unmask]
Please note that there will be a small charge of £8, payable on arrival at the
conference.
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PROGRAMME
09:00 Conference welcome and coffee
09:30 Keynote lecture: “Documentary film and photography in the making
of historical geographies: the case of the Hamilton Rice expedition to the
Amazon, 1924-25”, Luciana Martins (Birkbeck, University of London)
10:30 Postgraduate voices: Lowri Jones (Royal Holloway, University of
London)
11:15 Historical geography workshops
I. “Capturing atmosphere and juicy gossip: making sense of the not-
too-distant past”, Ruth Craggs (St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham)
II. “Sounding the archive: working with music, radio and noise.” Alasdair
Pinkerton (Royal Holloway, University of London)
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Historical geography workshops
I. “Capturing atmosphere and juicy gossip: making sense of the not-
too-distant past”, Ruth Craggs (St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham)
II. “Sounding the archive: working with music, radio and noise.” Alasdair
Pinkerton (Royal Holloway, University of London)
14:30 HGRG 2009 Dissertation Prize Winner: talk by Robert
MacKinnon
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Keynote lecture: “Mapping medieval geographies: putting
the ‘historical’ back into historical geography,” Keith Lilley (Queen’s University,
Belfast)
16:30 Closing comments
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