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Large Grants event archive

2011

Project: The Indian Ocean

Title: FESTIVAL OF ASIAN LITERATURE - Making Waves – Connections Across the Indian Ocean with Stephanie Jones

Date: 25 May 2011
Venue:
Asia House, New Cavendish St, London

 

Project: The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image

Title: Open Space 3rd Annual Lecure by Doreen Massey with the Future of Landscape project team and showing of 'Robinson in Ruins'

Date: 25 May 2011
Venue
: The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes

Further info: Event poster PDF file icon

 

2010

Robinson in Ruins by Patrick Keiller

Project: The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image

Title: Robinson in Ruins - BFI Screening plus panel discussion

Date: 20th November 2010
Venue
: British Film Institute, London

Further information: In a panel discussion after the 17.20 screening of the film, the four co-researchers on the Future of Landscape project presented their project as a political intervention

 

Project: Inca Ushnus: Landscape, Site and Symbol in the Andes

Title: Inca Ushnus Conference

Date: 19th to 21st November 2010
Venue:
British Museum, London

Further information: Keynote public lecture and three day conference focussing on the Inca Empire (c. AD 1400-1532), to examine the role of the ushnu in statecraft.

 

Project: The Indian Ocean

Title: Abolitions in the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Worlds and Law and Lawlessness in the Indian Ocean Workshop (1)

Date: 26th & 27th January 2010
Venue
:Chawton House, Hampshire

 

 

Web page: The Indian Ocean past events (still live January 2014)

Further information: Two events hosted by an AHRC Landscape and Environment project on The Indian Ocean in collaboration with History at the School of Humanities, University of Southampton

 

Project: The Indian Ocean

Title: Piracy in the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Worlds and Law and Lawlessness in the Indian Ocean Workshop (2)

Date: 15th & 16th April 2010
Venue
:Chawton House, Hampshire

Web page: The Indian Ocean past events (still live January 2014)

Further information: A half-day workshop, hosted in collaboration with History at the School of Humanities, and the second workshop on law following on from the one in January. The first day concluded with a reading and talk by Somali poet Ubax Cristina Ali Farah. The audio is available at http://www.soton.ac.uk/indianocean/poetry_reading.html
and the poetry is one of the features in the issue of Wasafiri on Indian Oceans http://www.wasafiri.org/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=245

 

2009

The Beat Goes On exhibition at National Museum, Liverpool

Project: Musicscapes

Title: The Beat Goes On

Date: 12 July 2008 - 1 November 2009
Venue
: World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool

 

Further information: Public exhibition involving the work of the Popular Musicscapes larger gran.

 
A church ridge and furrow

Project: Changing Landscape, Changing Environments

Title: Landscape, enclosure and rural society in post-medieval Britain and Europe

Date: 25 to 26 June 2009
Venue
: University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

Further information: Poster and Programme PDF file icon

 

Project: Tales of the Frontier

Title: An Archaeology of 'Race': Exploring the North East in Roman Britain

Date: Saturday 4 July - 15 September 2009
Venue
: Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear

Web page:www.dur.ac.uk/roman.centre/hadrianswall (still live January 2014)

Further information: Exhibition flyer front and flyer back PDF file icon

 

Project: Contested Common Land

Title: Symposium 2

Date: 7-8 September 2009
Venue
: Newcastle University

Web page: http://commons.ncl.ac.uk (still live January 2014)

 

Project: Sublime Object

Title: The Sublime in Crisis? New perspectives on the Sublime in British Visual Culture 1760 - 1900 conference

Date: 14-15 September 2009
Venue
: Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain

 

Project: The Early Modern Parish Church

Title: Public lectures by The Early Modern Parish Church

Date: 2 - 23 September 2009
Venue
: St Michael in the Northgate Church, Oxford

Further information: This series of public lectures coincided with the Oxford Open Doors Weekend.

 

Project: The Early Modern Parish Church

Title: The Early Modern Church Interdisciplinary Conference

Date: 6 - 8 April 2009
Venue
: Worcester College, Oxford

Further information: This interdisciplinary conference provided a forum to assess the role and significance of the parish church in the early modern period.

 

2008

Project: Militarized Landscapes

Title: Militarized Landscapes Conference

Date: 3 - 6 September 2008
Venue
: University of Bristol

Further information: Conference programme PDF file icon

 

 

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School of Geography
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University of Nottingham
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