MEMORY AND COMMUNITY IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN
Early Modern Memory Practices and the Making of Community will explore the ways in which early
modern memory is embedded in different cultural practices (oral records, memorials to the dead,
clothing, histories of the nation and lineage) and how these shape ideas of community.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Friday 7 June
11.30- 1.00: PG and ECR panel including:
Denise Kelly (Queen’s University Belfast) “What’s Past is Prologue”: Memory, Imagination and the
‘Passed’”.
Jennifer Mi-Young Park (Yale) “The Book of Cleopatra: Constructing Memory from Fragments”.
1.00-2.00: lunch.
2.00-3.15: Andrew Gordon (Aberdeen) “Memorial Translation: Reforming communal memory in early
modern London”.
3.15-4.15: Tara Hamling (Birmingham) – title tbc.
4.15-4.45: tea break.
4.45 – 6.15: Vic Gammon (Newcastle) “Barbara Allen: The Cultural Resilience of a Seventeenth Century
Song” and Mary Brooks (Durham), “Wrinkles in time: cloth, clothing and making memory”.
6.15: Drinks and roundtable discussion on current agendas in early modern memory studies.
Saturday 8 June
9.30-10.45: Philip Schwyzer (Exeter): “Memorials in the aftermath of Reformation iconoclasm”.
10.45-11.00: tea break.
11.00-1.00: Panel on spaces and landscapes with John Gurney, History, Newcastle; Jon Finch,
Archaeology, York; Chris Burgess, Flodden Community Eco-Museum.
1.00-2.00: lunch.
2.00: optional field trip to Flodden Community Eco-Museum.
Room 1.05, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University (See Map). If you would like to attend please
contact laurie.mckee@ncl.ac.uk or kate.chedgzoy@ncl.ac.uk
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