Mapping the Medieval City: space, place and ide

Mapping the Medieval City: space, place and identity
An International Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Swansea University, 30-31 July 2009
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN


- Participants include Ralph Hanna (Oxford), Robert W. Barrett Jr. (Illinois), Keith Lilley (Belfast), Helen Fulton (Swansea) and Jane Laughton

- Sessions include:
- Mappings: personal, political religious
- The Fabric of the Medieval City
- Literature, Performance and Civic Identity
- Space, Memory and Gender
- Identity and Belonging: citizens, migrants and outsiders
- The City and the World: locating centres
- Recovering the Medieval City: sources and analysis
- Digital Humanities Forum

- A roundtable / Q&A session discussing medieval studies and new media, as well as projects in the digital humanities more widely. Experts in Humanities Computing will be available to answer questions and offer advice

- Launch of Mapping Medieval Chester website

For further information and a registration form, see the project website (www.medievalchester.ac.uk), or contact Mark Faulkner (m.j.faulkner@swan.ac.uk)