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We are pleased to share the programme for the upcoming University of Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage PGR Symposium 2025.

This event is taking place in the Minerva Building on the Brayford Campus, in MB0312 – 15:00-18:30. All are welcome!

The symposium is being organised by the Nineteenth-Century Research Group’s fantastic PGR representative, Rebecca Shipp. Please direct any questions to rshipp@lincoln.ac.uk.

Programme

15:00 – Arrivals and welcome

15:15 – Keynote Address, Professor Roger Ebbatson: ‘‘Ever the Road’: Hardy and Edward Thomas’.

16:00 – Panel One: Book Histories and Museums

Megan Schlanker – ‘Reflections of Early Museum Educators: The Publications of Molly Harrison (Geffrye Museum) and Jacqueline Palmer (Natural History Museum)

Heather Glover – ‘“The New St. Francis”: Divinity, Craft, and the Doves Press Laudes Creaturarum (1911)’

16:40 – Comfort break

16:50 – Panel Two: Walking and Culture

Zeynep Ece Bakala – ‘“I Set My Heart on Going on a Pilgrimage”: Sociocultural Encounters of Women Pilgrims in Thirteenth-Century Iberia

Rebecca Shipp – ‘Walking, Culture, and Class in 1930s England: The Tramping Narratives of Jack Hilton’

17:30 – Comfort break

17:35 – Panel Three: Clouds and the Artic

Bethany Davison – ‘“The Past is Spilling out of the Scarred Earth”: Reading Arctic Coastal Erosion and Permafrost Melt as Sites of Co-Constitutive Transformation’

Stephen Gibson – ‘“All That Is In Heaven”: Cloud Gazing with John Constable, James Turrell, and Karl Ove Knausgaard’

18:20 – Closing Remarks