D. Babson wrote
> Interesting that we see these two new programs announced on the same day
Absolutely! These really are exciting and fast-moving times in British
historical
archaeology...and these new MAs are one aspect of this.
A glance, for instance, at the programme for the forthcoming SPMA conference
in Southampton
in April (latest version copied below for anyone who missed Adrian Green's
last posting) demonstrates how historical archaeology in Britain is starting
to shake off
previous parochial perspectives, and to find a new, more confident voice.
Dan Hicks
University of Bristol
www.fieldschool.net
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SPMA PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME FOR SOUTHAMPTON APRIL 2001 - full details from
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DAY 1: Thursday April 18, 2002
The Social World of Urban Places
Out of the Meres: The Emergence of the Fenland Towns
Quinton Caroll, Historic Towns of Cambridgeshire
Death, Burial and commemoration: an archaeological perspective on urban
cemetries
Harold Mytum, York University
Armies, Militias and Urban Landscapes
Paul Courtney
Sheffield slums / North American contexts
Paul Belford, Ironbridge Institute
Housing the Eighteenth-century Industrial City: London's workshop tenements
Peter Guillery, English Heritage
The Material World of Urban Places
Durham City: buildings and social relations 1550-1750
Adrian Green, University of Durham
Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Walls
John Nolan, Northern Counties Archaeological Services
Guildford – Historical Archaeology in a Post-Medieval Market Town
Mary Alexander, Guildford Museum
Manchester – Historical Archaeology in a Northern Industrial City
Robina McNeil, University of Manchester
Goldney, Bristol – An 18th century urban garden in the Atlantic World
Dan Hicks, University of Bristol
Adaptation or Appropriation – Housing the Processional City
Roger Leech, University of Southampton
Keynote Speaker
Politeness and the Shaping of Urban Space in Britain 1700-2000
Peter Borsay, University of Wales, Lampeter
DAY 2: Friday April 19, 2002
Resource Issues: Brownfield Sites and the Archaeology of the Recent Past
Interpreting and Preserving the Recent Past
Introduced by James Symonds, University of Sheffield
Tales From The City: Brownfield Archaeology - a Worthwhile Challenge?
James Symonds, University of Sheffield
Stories That Matter: Material Lives in 19th-Century Boston and Lowell,
Massachusetts, USA.
Mary Beaudry, Boston University
Making City Lives: Urban Archaeology and Australian Social, Cultural and
Urban History
Grace Karskens, University of New South Wales
From the Mythical to the Mundane: the Archaeological Angle on New York
City's Five Points
Rebecca Yamin, Director of the Five Points Project, John Milner Associates,
Philadelphia
Urban Places in a Global Context: the Northern Atlantic World
Port Cities in the World: Maritime Urban Networks in Europe's Northern Seas
1850-1914
Graeme Milne, University of Newcastle
Cultural Politics and Urban Aggrandisement: Newcastle upon Tyne and Malmö
since 1945
Natasha Vall, Northumbria University
Nantes, Spain and the Atlantic World in the Sixteenth Century
Elizabeth Tingle, University College Northampton
Le paysage urbain d'Angers
Dominique Letellier, le Service regional de L’Inventaire des Pays de la
Loire, Angers
"Urbanization" on the Periphery: Speculative Development in Ulster and the
Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century
Audrey Horning, Queen's University Belfast
Evolution of the Urban Landscape of Oranjestad, St. Eustatius in the Eastern
Caribbean
Richard Grant Gilmore III, Institute of Archaeology, University College
London
Urban Places in a Global Context: Africa and beyond
Cities in Africa
Mark Horton, University of Bristol
Townsmen in the making: social engineering and citizenship in Dar es Salaam,
1945-1961
Andrew Burton, British Institute in Eastern Africa
Rural-Urban Interactions: The Role of District Capitals as Small Towns in
Rural Development in Environmental Determinism, Archaeology and History:
rethinking the demise of Great Zimbabwe, 1450-1550
Innocent Pikirayi, University of Zimbabwe
The Changing Views on the Role of Small Towns in Rural and Regional
Development in Africa
George Owusu, Norwegian University of Science and Technonology
Central Place Functions and Urban Location Theory: Tools to assess the
development of towns on a colonial frontier (Australia)
Gaye Nayton
Landscapes of Memory in the Colonial City: Building History in Imperial
India
David Petts, Oxford Archaeological Unit
Research frameworks: future directions for the historical archaeology of
cities, 1500-2000
Discussion and summing up
Panel - Historical Archaeologists from Africa, Australia, Europe and North
America
DAY 3: Saturday April 20, 2002
Morning
Walking tour of Southampton – with an especial focus on the maritime city of
the 18th to the 20th centuries
Lunchtime – travel by train to Portsmouth some 20 miles to the east of
Southampton
Afternoon to early evening
Walking tour of Portsmouth (for delegates who missed the Society’s joint
meeting with the Royal Archaeological Institute in 2000) – with an especial
focus on the naval and dockyard city and suburbs of the 17th to 20th
centuries – with an opportunity to see the Naval Dockyard, the Mary Rose and
HMS Victory.
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