People and Place: Landscape and Identity through Time

Society Conference 2008

People and Place: Landscape and Identity through Time

Saturday 13 September 2008

University of Chichester (Bishop Otter campus)

I will be presenting a poster at this years Sussex Past Society Conference

The line up of speakers is fantastic!

Conference Programme

9.00 Registration and posters

10.00 Welcome address by Vice Chancellor Dr Robin Baker, University of Chichester

10.05 Introduction – Prof. Stephen Daniels, University of Nottingham.

10.15 What is landscape? – Prof. Matthew Johnson, University of Southampton.

11.00 Tea/Coffee and posters

11.30 London before London – Caroline Juby, Royal Holloway.

12.00 Neanderthals and their landscape – Dr Danielle Schreve, Royal Holloway.

12.30 Animalscapes and the Iron Age/Romano-British transition – Martyn Allen, SAS/ University of Nottingham.

1.00 Lunch and posters

2.00 Making and manipulating the past: early medieval identities in the landscape – Dr Sarah Semple, University of Durham.

2.30 Peasant voices in the landscape – Dr Richard Jones, University of Leicester.

3.00 Medieval parks, authority and access – Dr Amanda Richardson, University of Chichester.

3.30 Tea/coffee and posters

4.00 The meaning of house-names in Sussex – Dr Chris Lewis, Victoria County History.

4.30 Culturally-contested landscapes: the Long Man of Wilmington – Martin Brown, Ministry of Defence, Wiltshire.

5.00 Closing address: Prof. Brian Short, University of Sussex