Conference
Archive - 2019 Conference
We are delighted to announce that booking has now opened for the multi-disciplinary "Ruination & Decay" conference, which has been organised by the Humanities & Arts Research Cluster (HARC) for the 11th-12th December 2019 at Inverness College UHI.
The conference will feature speakers from across a range of disciplines including Cultural Geography; Archaeology; Performance Studies; Art & Design; Visual Studies; Heritage Studies; History; Literature. There will also be an exhibition of photographs by the artist Sue Mara, and a display of research posters*
The conference fee is set at £15 for the two days, which includes refreshments breaks and the conference dinner on Wednesday 11th December. The conference fee for students is £5.**
To book, please visit the Eventbrite page here
*The call for research posters is still open. Please email Colin Richards at Colin.Richards@uhi.ac.uk with a short (150 word) abstract of your poster by Thursday 28th November.
**We have a small number of discretionary accommodation bursaries to assist with costs for UHI postgraduate students and early career researchers to attend the conference. To apply, please email Colin.Richards@uhi.ac.uk by Monday 28th October with a short (200 word) statement explaining why you would like to attend the conference & offering a brief outline of projected costs to attend (please include details of where you are based).
Please note that some UHI academic partners & subject areas are offering bursaries to support postgraduate students to attend the conference, including the Archaeology Institute, Orkney College & Orkney Archaeological Society (contact Colin.Richards@uhi.ac.uk); and the Centre for History (contact Jim.macpherson@uhi.ac.uk). If you think you may be eligible, please contact them directly to explore this option. Delegates awarded bursaries from these sources are requested not to apply for the R&D accommodation bursary.
Conference Progamme
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Wednesday 11th December |
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9.30am |
Registration Opens |
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10.10 – 11.00 |
Conference introduction and presentation 1: Chair: Colin Richards Mike Parker Pearson (UCL) Stonehenge: ‘How grand! How wonderful! How incomprehensible!’ |
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11.00 – 11.20 |
Break |
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Session 1 |
Chair: Conchúr Ó Giollagáin |
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11.20 – 11.50 |
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11.50 – 12.20 |
Simon Murray (University of Glasgow): Performing the ruin: some questions of materiality and dramaturgy |
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12.20 – 12.35 |
Discussion |
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12.35 – 1.30 |
Lunch |
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1.30 – 1.45 |
Conference Address: Crichton Lang (UHI Principle & Vice-Chancellor) |
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Session 2 |
Chair: Lesley Mickel |
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1.45 – 2.15 |
Siân Jones (University of Stirling): Negotiating decay: the temporal and material paradoxes of heritage conservation |
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2.15 – 2.45 |
Matt Ritchie (Forestry & Land Scotland): Set in concrete? Considering conservation and character at Lossie’s WWII coastal crust |
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2.45 – 3.15 |
Philippa Woodcock (UHI): The ruins of ambition: tracing the fragments of Valiois Milan |
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3.15 – 3.25 |
Discussion |
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3.25 – 3.45 |
Break |
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Session 3 |
Chair: Lindsay Blair |
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3.45 – 4.15 |
Antonia Thomas (UHI): “Ruins in Reverse: Time-Travelling in Contemporary Art and Contemporary Archaeology” |
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4.15 - 4.45 |
Alessandra Campoli (UHI): From modern ruins to human decay. Creative practices and ‘students as researchers’ |
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4.45 – 5.15 |
Keith Mcintyre (UHI): Disturbed ground – immortalising the disappeared |
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5.15 – 5.25 |
Discussion |
7.00pm Conference Dinner
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Thursday 12th December |
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9.20 – 9.30 |
Day 2 - Introduction: Neil Simco (UHI - Vice Principal of Research) |
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Conference presentation 2 Chair: Iain Robertson
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9.30 – 10.15 |
Hayden Lorimer (University of Edinburgh): Fortifying the ruin: the nightwatchman, the artists, the trespassers and their antagonisms |
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10.15 – 10. 35 |
Break |
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Session 4 |
Chair: Iain Robertson |
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10.35 – 11.05 |
Roxane Permar (UHI): Nuclear families |
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11.05 – 11.35 |
Fiona Smith (Robert Gordon University): Abandoned Places: the aestheticization of decay and the dark retrospective gaze |
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11.35 – 11.50 |
Discussion |
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12.50 – 12.10 |
Break |
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Session 5 |
Chair: Joanna Rodgers |
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12.10 – 12.40 |
Vicki Cummings (Uclan): Decaying bodies, ruined tombs: the afterlife of Neolithic chambered tombs in Britain and Ireland |
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12.40 – 1.10 |
Fiona J. Mackenzie (Canna House, National Trust for Scotland): Deserted Village on Mingulay: the Canna Archives- a folklore phoenix |
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1.10 – 1.20 |
Discussion |
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1.20 – 2.00 |
Lunch |
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Session 6 |
Chair: Ragnhild Ljosland |
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2.00 – 2.30 |
Hugh Cheape (UHI) Bàthadh nan Gleann – ‘the drowning of the Glens’: locating human ecology in the AMBER Project. |
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2.30 – 3.00 |
Anne Bevan (UHI) Beside the Ocean of time: mapping the sound |
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3.00 – 3.10 |
Discussion |
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3.10 – 3.25 |
Break |
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3.25 – 3.55 |
Kenny Brophy (University of Glasgow): Lingering timbers: the decline and fall of monuments of wood |
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3.55 – 4.25 |
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4.25 – 4.55 |
Paul Shanks (UHI): The heart of the Highlands: Tourism, ghosts and ruination in Inverness
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4.55-5.15 |
Final discussion and conference conclusion: Michael Rayner: UHI Dean of Research |