The 20th annual 'Practising Historical Geography' conference organised by the Historical Geography Research Group of the RGS will be held at the University of Bristol on 5th November 2014. This event is open to all postgraduate and undergraduate students of historical geography. Undergraduates contemplating a dissertation in historical geography may find the 'postgraduate voices' session particularly helpful. Reports of previous years events are available on the HGRG website: http://historicalgeographyresearchgroup.wordpress.com/
Please note that there will be a small charge of £10, payable on arrival at the conference. To register please email Lucy Veale, the HGRG Conference Officer ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 17th October.
PRACTISING HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
20TH ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
WEDNESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER 2014,
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, 09:30-17:00
PROGRAMME
09:30 Conference registration
09:55 Welcome by Carl Griffin (Chair, HGRG)
10:00 Keynote lecture: ‘Historical GIS and the Holocaust’, Tim Cole (University of Bristol)
10:50 Coffee
11:15 ‘Postgraduate voices’
12:00 Historical geography workshops
I. ‘Adventures in the Map Room: archives, landscape and deep history’, Briony McDonagh (University of Hull)
II. 'Breaking out of the cage: from animal entertainment to animal agency in the captive wild', Andrew Flack (University of Bristol)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Historical geography workshops
I. ‘Adventures in the Map Room: archives, landscape and deep history’, Briony McDonagh (University of Hull)
II. 'Breaking out of the cage: from animal entertainment to animal agency in the captive wild', Andrew Flack (University of Bristol)
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Keynote lecture: 'Precarious Memory: on Language and the Archive', Jessica Dubow (University of Sheffield)
16:30 Closing comments
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