Finding Belief, Desire, and Benevolence in Archaeologies of the Recent and Contemporary Past
23rd-25th November 2007
Friday 23rd November
Death & Commemoration
10.45 Sarah Tarlow, A little world or a stinking Jakes? Faith and the dead body in the sixteenth century.
11.10 Annia Kristina Cherryson, Charity in death: institutional burial in hospital and workhouse cemeteries, c. 1750-1850.
11.35 Emily Weglian, Casket, Shroud, and Grave: Folks Songs, Emotion, and the Material of Death.
12.00. Harold Mytum, Faith in Action: theology and practice in commemorative traditions. Harold Mytum.
12.25 LUNCH
1.40 Ross J. Wilson, A landscape of faith on the Western Front.
2.05 Sam Walls, The Changing Memories and Meanings of World War One Expressed Through Public Commemorations.
2.30 Enrique R. Gil Hernandez & Ma. Paz de Miguel Ibanez, Mass Graves and the Spanish Civil War: archaeological research on fascist repression in Eastern Spain.
2.55 Chair & Discussant: Dr John Moreland University of Sheffield.
Urban Topographies
3.50 Chris King, Radical topographies in the early modern city: the cultural landscapes of faith and politics in Norwich, 1580-1780.
4.15 Megan E Edwards, “… Now there, they’re packed aff to hell. An’ banish’d our dominions…”Ideological Reformation and Material Reformations in Early-modern Perth, Scotland.
4.40 Timo Ylimaunu, Discipline, church, and landscape: material culture & social hierarchy in a small town, Tornio Northern Finland, during the 17th and 18th centuries.
5.05-5.30 Chair & Discussant: Dr Harold Mytum University of York.
6.30-8.30 Evening Reception – Sheffield Millenium Galleries
Keynote address: Professor Henry Glassie
Saturday 24th November
Artifacts of Faith
8.45 Catholic Artifacts in a Protestant Landscape: A Multi-vocal Approach to the Religiosity of Jamestown’s Colonists Bristol University.
9.10 Travis G Parno, B R Fortenberry, Risto Nurmi, The Modernisation of the North in the Emerging Swedish Empire – a Mercantile Bubble.
9.35 Greig Parker, Articles of Faith and Decency: the Huguenot refugees.
10.00 Claire Strachan, Pulling the wool over their eyes: Protestant dissent and social identity in the South West woollen industry 1760-1860.
10.25 Carolyn L. White, Faith in the Familiar, Hope for Change: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on ISth-Century Clothing.
10.50 Tea & Coffee
11.20 Kirn Christensen, Houses of Action: Hope and Faith in Archaeologies of Household-based Activism.
11.45 Stacy Kozakavich, Colony Mill Road: two generations of hope.
12.10 Nick Hanks & Yvonne Aburrow, Archaeology & Paganisms: a clash of cultures?
12.35 Chair & Discussant: Professor Mary Beaudry Boston University
Contested Landscapes & Regeneration
2.20 Craig Cessford, Faith, Hope and Charity in Contract Archaeology? The Grand Arcade, Cambridge.
2.45 David Gadsby, “Believe, Hon”: Markets, Faith, and Archaeology in 21st Century Baltimore.
3.10 James Dixon, Art, archaeology and local identity in changing urban places.
3.35 Tea & coffee
4.00 Eve Campbell. Finbar Dwyer, Franc Myles, Rossport, County Mayo: Solidarity and archaeology in a contested landscape.
4.25 David W Robinson, Indigenous Missionaries and the future past: the archaeology of the Ghost Dance at the end of the world.
4.50 Jonathan Prangnell & Kate Quirk, Methodists in Paradise.
5.15 Chair & Discussant: Dr Dan Hicks University of Oxford.
8.30-12.00pm
Reception and Ceilidh (venue & details to be confirmed)
Sunday 25th November
Confinement & Resistance
9.30 Vicky Olesky, Parliament House Void: A Victorian Prison Cell.
9.55 Gillian Carr, Silent resistance and the V-sign campaign in Channel Islander internee camps in Germany during WWII.
10.20 Jeff Burton, Faith, Hope, and Charity in America’s World War II Internment Camps: Japanese American patriotism and defiance at Manzanar.
10.45 Laura McAtackney, Manifestations of faith and hope in a place of fear: Long Kesh/Maze prison site, Northern Ireland.
11.10 Jeff Oliver, Between Two Faiths: Acculturation, Resistance And the Construction of Aboriginality.
11.35 Tea & coffee
12.00-12.30 Chair & Discussant: Dr Eleanor Conlin Casella University of Manchester.
