Sacred and profane: the landscapes of Kent

The Society of Landscape Studies Annual Conference 2024 sponsored by the Society of Landscape Studies and the Centre for Kent History & Heritage.

Programme

Saturday: St Paul’s church, Canterbury CT1 1NH

9.30: Reception

10.00: Introduction

10.15: Session 1: Exploring Kent Landscapes:

‘Kent’s changing coastal landscape.’

Dr Chris Young (CCCU)

‘Landscape, culture and cartography: a biographical approach’

Professor Peter Vujakovic.(CCCU)

11.15: Break

11.30: Session 2: Landscapes of authority in medieval Kent:

‘Norman Castles in the medieval landscape’ (tbc)

Richard Eales (University of Kent)

‘Canterbury in its wider landscape in the Anglo-Norman period’

Tim Tatton-Brown

12.30: Lunch and SLS Annual General Meeting

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 (CCCU)

‘The defence of Kent since 1900’

Dr Andrew Richardson (Isle Heritage CIC)

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 (CCCU)

16.00: Roundtable Discussion

16.30: Finish

Sunday Field Trips