SLS conference 2024 at Canterbury on 28 & 29 September
Sacred and Profane: the landscapes of Kent
Saturday 28 September at St Paul’s Church, Canterbury CT1 1NH
Saturday timetable:
9.30: Reception
10.00: Introduction
10.15: Session 1: Exploring Kent Landscapes:
‘Kent’s changing coastal landscape’
Dr Chris Young
‘Landscape, culture and cartography: a biographical approach’
Professor Peter Vujakovic
11.15: Break
11.30: Session 2: Landscapes of authority in medieval Kent:
‘Norman Castles in the medieval landscape’
Richard Eales
‘Canterbury in its wider landscape in the Anglo-Norman period’
Tim Tatton-Brown
12.30: Lunch + AGM
13.30: Session 3: East Kent as Gateway: to enter or defend:
‘‘Dost Thou Know Dover?’: locating Dover in the early modern literary landscape’
Dr Claire Bartram
‘The defence of Kent since 1900’
Dr Andrew Richardson
14.30: Break
15.00: Session 4: Seeing new landscapes:
‘The Cross-Channel Geopark – two landscapes connected by the Channel’
Speaker from Kent Downs National Landscape
‘Bringing digital tools to landscape and heritage studies’
Dr Catriona Cooper
16.00: Roundtable Discussion
16.30: Finish
Sunday field trips:
Leave Canterbury: 10am
Western Heights, Dover – C19 and C20 landscapes: 10.45am (leave 12.30pm)
Little Farthingloe Farm café CT15 7AA: 1pm-2pm
Old St Albans Court, Nonington, CT15 4HH – Anglo-Saxon/medieval landscapes: 2.45pm (leave 4.30pm)
Return to Canterbury: 5pm