Events
Bringing together international researchers, practitioners and students in a diverse and interdisciplinary field, to facilitate discussion, stimulate research, and promote international scholarship.
Date/Time: 4 – 7 September 2017
Venue: Newcastle University
The events of the past year have been a reminder of the importance of power and its unpredictability as an agent of social and material change. This conference seeks to examine the role of power in the history of medieval settlements and landscapes.
Date/Time: 29 - 30 April 2017
Venue: Newcastle University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Date/Time: 22 September 2018
Venue: Newcastle University
Using data and its visualisation to classify mining remnants in Northern England by era and function, and to enhance the study of comparative landscape archaeology across the sites.
Date/Time: 11 May 2017
Venue: The Armstrong Building, B 2.16
Julia Szołtysek (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland) explores how Persian Pictures - essays written by Gertrude Bell - can enrich discussions of Western mis/representations of the Orient.
Date/Time: 5 May 2017
Venue: The Armstrong Building, room 2.16.
This workshop, organised by the Boğsak Archaeological Survey (2010-present), focuses on the use of recent and newly emerging digital tools in the analysis of historic landscapes.
Date/Time: 20 - 21 February 2017
Venue: Bomonti Campus of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSGSÜ), Istanbul (Turkey)
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Digital Approaches to Landscape Analysis
Location: Newcastle University
Date: 20 - 21 February 2017This event focused on the use of recent and newly emerging digital tools in the analysis of historic landscapes. In the past decade, the rapid development of new technologies, the user-friendly interface of software and applications, and the open access alternatives of proprietary software, made digital tools both more affordable and accessible.
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Artists, Farmers and Philosophers
Location: The Bowes Museum
Date: 7 - 9 September 2016This three-day symposium explored types of grassroots expertise pertinent to understanding the character and dynamics of our cultural landscapes. It was held at the magnificent Bowes Museum in Teesdale, and included walks, talks, screenings and performances. There was a diverse programme of eminent speakers, and plenty of opportunities for discussion and networking.
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Exploring the Moving ‘Subject': Discourses on ‘Lived’ Landscapes
Location: Newcastle University
Date: Thursday 19 March 2015This workshop explored the subject of humans and nonhumans moving through a landscape, and what this says about exploring the role of movement in examining living/lived landscapes. The creative challenge was to find out how and why movement and mobility intersect, join with, or pass through, different disciplines.
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Landscape Forward: Policy, Practice, Research
Location: Newcastle University
Date: Wednesday 18 March 2015This symposium was developed through a partnership between Newcastle University’s McCord Centre, Natural England and English Heritage. It aimed to explore and discuss the way forward for landscape policy, practice and research.
See videos of the day's presentations and read about the outcomes of the event.