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Conferences and major lectures

4-7 July 2016: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Water management for agricultural productivity in the Cambridgeshire peat fens 400-970 AD', International Medieval Congress 2015, University of Leeds.

27 January 2016: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'A reconsideration of Domesday population densities in the Cambridgeshire fenland', Medieval Economic & Social History Seminar, University of Cambridge, Faculty of History.

9 December 2015: Dr Judith Croston
'Assessing the impact of the radio-galaxy population', Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics colloquium, University of Manchester.

4-6 December 2015: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Beyond hierarchy: Territory, governance and collective property rights', Society for Medieval Archaeology Conference 2015, University of Central Lancashire.

17 October 2015: Dr Gilly Carr
'The unseen, the invisible and the intangible: the importance of double vision in modern conflict archaeology', Keynote paper, Modern Conflict Archaeology (University of Bristol).

6-8 October 2015: Dr Judith Croston
'Assessing the impact of radio galaxies in groups and clusters', Clusters of Galaxies and Hot Baryons Conference, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

6-8 October 2015: Dr Judith Croston
'Clusters of galaxies with the Athena X-ray Observatory', Clusters of galaxies and Hot Baryons Conference, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

4 October 2015: Dr Gilly Carr
'Testimonies of Resistance', Jersey Literary Festival (Festival of Words).

2-5 September 2015: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Beyond hierarchy: landscapes of collective governance and identity', Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) 2015, University of Glasgow.

2-5 September 2015: Dr Gilly Carr
'"Have YOU been offended?" The role of taboo in the memory of the Holocaust in the Channel Island of Guernsey', Annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Glasgow.

2-5 September 2015: Dr Gilly Carr
'Lager Wick and the architecture of forced labour in the Channel Islands', Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Glasgow.

21-22 July 2015: Dr Gilly Carr
'Breaking the last taboo? Addressing the Holocaust in the Channel Islands in 2015', Second Annual Conference of the British Association for Holocaust Studies, University of Birmingham.

6-9 July 2015: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Re-evaluating the population densities of the Domesday fenland', Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds.

25-26 June 2015: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Beyond hierarchy: the archaeology of collective governance', International Medieval Meeting, Lleida, Spain.

24-26 June 2015: Dr Gilly Carr
'Dominant memories and dominating heritage: contested legacies of war in the British Channel Islands', The Commonwealth and its People: Diasporas, Identities, Memories', University of Malta.

26-28 March 2015: Dr Justin Meggitt
'A Turke turn'd Quaker: Bartholomew Cole and radical conversion in early modern England', Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin.

27 January 2015: Dr Gilly Carr
'Holocaust Memorial Day lecture', Jersey.

30 November 2014: Dr Gilly Carr
'"At no time were we visited by any member of a neutral protecting power": testimonies of Channel Islanders in Nazi prisons and camps on the continent and the compensation claims of the mid-1960s' (invited lecture), Britain and the Holocaust, University of Staffordshire.

20-21 November 2014: Dr Gilly Carr
'Dark heritage and heritage management' (invited lecture), Riksantikvaren (Directorate for Cultural Heritage in Norway) Annual Meeting, Painful heritage/Heritage from WWII. Oslo, Norway.

6 November 2014: Dr Gilly Carr
'Why remember war? The view from heritage and archaeology' (seminar), Heritage Research Group, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

31 October - 2 November 2014: Dr Gilly Carr
'Lager Wick: the excavation of a forced labour camp in the Channel Islands', CHAT 2014: Dark Modernities - Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism and Repression, University of Pilzen, Czech Republic.

21 October 2014: Dr Gilly Carr
'Legacies of Occupation: archaeology in the Channel Islands' (Seminar), Sheffield University.

11-14 September 2014: Dr Justin Meggitt
'Anarchism and apocalypse: the historical Jesus and the problem of violence deferred.' Enlightened Anarchism Conference, Lapland University, Rovaniemi, Finland.

8-12 September 2014: Dr Rebecca Lingwood
'Transition to turbulence in the rotating-disk boundary layer', IUTAM-ABCM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

8-10 September 2014: Dr Justin Meggitt
'The power and practice of early Christian women', Inspiration from Time: Women’s Ministries in the Orthodox Church Conference, Orthodox Theological Research Forum, High Leigh Conference Centre.

23-25 July 2014: Dr Rebecca Lingwood
'On the rotating-disk flow', Fluid Mechanics: An Interdisciplinary Approach. A workshop in experimentation, analytics, numerical analysis and high-performance computing, Madingley Hall, Cambridge.

14-15 July 2014: Dr Emily Caddick Bourne
'Mental fictionalism', at a conference on Mental Fictionalism, University of Edinburgh.

3-5 July 2014: Dr Gilly Carr
'Disturbing ghosts, German bunker restoration and postmemory in the Channel Islands' to be presented at a conference entitled Disturbing Pasts:
reverberations of the Second World War in Europe after 1945 at UCL, London.

27 June 2014: Dr Justin Meggitt
'Prophecy, early Quakers and constructions of Islam in the seventeenth century'. Paper to be presented to the Revisiting Early Modern Prophecies conference, Goldsmiths, University of London.

19-21 June 2014: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Buildings in Their Landscapes: A case study of the importance of landscape context'. Paper to Buildings in Society International Conference, Queen's University, Belfast

18-19 June 2014: Dr Emily Caddick Bourne
'The concept of redemption', at Fall Narratives, University of Aberdeen.

12-13 June 2014: Dr Gilly Carr
'Sensing soldiers: the uninvited guests who overstayed their welcome in the Channel Islands'. Paper to be presented at a conference entitled Sensing War: war, violence, militarism, bodies, sensation, London.

15 May 2014: Dr Emily Caddick Bourne
'Temporal representation in static and moving images' (with Craig Bourne), at a workshop on Art and Time, University of Nottingham.

10 May 2014: Dr Sam Williams
‘Unmarried Mothers and the New Poor Law in Hertfordshire’, Lionel Munby Memorial Lecture, Hertfordshire Association for Local History.

21-27 April 2014: Dr Emily Caddick Bourne
'Prophecy and misunderstanding in Macbeth', with Dr Craig Bourne, at the seminar 'Many straunge and horrible events' – Omens and Prophecies in Histories and Tragedies by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, taking place as part of Shakespeare 450, Paris.

8 April 2014: Dr Rebecca Lingwood
'The rotating-disk boundary layer: edge effects and other recent results'. Cardiff University School of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics Seminars

4-5 April 2014: Dr Emily Caddick Bourne
'True to fictionalism', at Fictionalism: The Bucharest-Budapest Workshop in Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest

18-20 March 2014: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'"Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow": Collectivity and lordship in the emergence of English medieval two- and three-field systems' to be presented at International Conference on Changes in Field Systems: Comparative approaches to pace, contexts and forms. University of Rennes, France.

24 February 2014: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Governance in Anglo-Saxon England through the lens of common rights'. University of Cambridge McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research

11 February 2014: Dr Justin Meggitt
'A paradoxical encounter: early Quakers and the reception of Islam in the seventeenth century'. Paper to be presented to the international workshop Christian-Islamic Interactions: Mobility, Connection, Transformation: 1450-1800, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

1 February 2014: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Pasture, commons and Anglo-Saxon identity', Animals on the Move: Conference, University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education

10 November 2013: Dr Gilly Carr
'Re-experiencing the Occupation and mediating the past: authenticity and conflict heritage in the Channel Islands'. Paper presented at The Archaeology of Experience at CHAT (Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory), UCL, London.

9 November 2013: Dr Gilly Carr
'The importance of creativity behind barbed wire', keynote speaker, Representing the Prisoner of War Experience. University of Warwick, UK.

29 October - 1 November 2013: Dr Gilly Carr
'The competition for memory in the Channel Islands'. Paper presented at Competing Memories conference, University of Amsterdam and VU University, Amsterdam.

25 September 2013: Dr Sam Williams
'The French Pox and the English: a history of venereal disease', Folk Museum, Cambridge

10-11 September 2013: Dr Rebecca Lingwood
'Experimental and numerical work on the transitional rotating flows with a special focus on rotating-disk flow', International Workshop on Flow Dynamics related to Energy, Aerospace and Material Processing, KTH, Stockholm

10 September 2013: Dr Justin Meggitt
'Did magic matter? The saliency of magic in the early Roman Empire', Stockholm University History of Religions Senior Seminar

1-4 September 2013: Dr Rebecca Lingwood
'Transition to turbulence in the rotating-disk boundary layer', 14th European Turbulence Conference, Lyon, France

27 July 2013: Dr Emily Caddick Bourne
'Meaningful sex and bad language', University of Rijeka, Croatia. For a conference on the work of Craig Bourne (co-author.)

3 July 2013: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Common property regimes in Anglo-Saxon England: a landscape perspective', Leeds International Medieval Congress 2013, University of Leeds

12-14 June 2013: Dr Rebecca Lingwood
'Rotating-disk boundary-layer flow', Svenska Mekanikdagar (SMD) 2013, Lund, Sweden

2 May 2013: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Nucleated settlement and open fields: common or separate origins?', University of Newcastle Medieval Archaeology Seminars

5-7 April 2013: Dr Gilly Carr
‘Islands of obsession, islands of nostalgia: the afterlife of the German Occupation in the British Channel Islands’ in Islands of War, Islands of Memory, McDonald Institute, Cambridge University.

28-29 March 2013: Dr Rebecca Lingwood
'The von Kármán disk flow and other rotating systems – stability, transition and turbulence - a saga spanning a hundred years', 52nd Workshop on “Investigation and Control of Transition to Turbulence”, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan

24 February 2013: Dr Emily Caddick
Speaker and panel member, Alan Turing and Homophobia: The Relationship of the Past with the Present, Friends Meeting House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge. Organised by the Amnesty International Cambridge City Group.

23 February 2013: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'Cyril Fox and the archaeology of the Cambridge region', Cambridge Antiquarian Society Annual Conference 2013

12-13 February 2013: Dr Gilly Carr
‘Contested memories of occupation’, in Memories of Conflicts, Conflicts of Memory, Senate House, London.

29 January 2013: Dr Jenny Bavidge
'Listening out: the soundtracks and film scores of Wuthering Heights', Re-Visioning the Brontës Conference, University of Leeds

23 January 2013: Dr Gilly Carr
‘Are ghosts the intangible heritage of Terrorscapes?’, Terrorscapes Research Group, NIAS, Netherlands.

17-19 December 2012: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
‘The identification of Common Property Regimes in archaeological contexts’, Theoretical Archaeology Group annual conference, University of Liverpool.

10 October 2012: Dr Justin Meggitt
'"Who hath despised the day of small things?" Quakers and Muslims in the seventeenth century', Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, Birmingham

6 October 2012: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
'An Odyssey around Odsey', Ashwell Colloquium, Ashwell

26 September 2012: Dr Ed Turner
‘Biodiversity hanging by a thread: the impacts of habitat change on litter-trapping fungal communities’, Science@SAFE, Imperial College London.

20-24 August 2012: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
‘Archaeology, common rights and political identity’, Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.

18-20 July 2012: Dr Ed Turner
‘Habitat preference and temperature control of chalk grassland butterflies and day-flying moths’, ENTO'12 The Royal Entomological Society Conference, Anglia Ruskin University.

12 July 2012: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
‘A joint endeavour? Negotiating principles for managing arable and pasture in Middle Anglo-Saxon England’, Leeds Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.

5-8 June 2012: Dr Gilly Carr
Dark Heritage session co-organiser and chair, Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden.

26 May 2012: Dr Susan Oosthuizen
The Hoskins Lecture, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester.

17 May 2012: Dr Rebecca Lingwood
'The effects of surface mass flux and edge conditions on the instability of rotating boundary-layer flows', Applied Mathematics Series, Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester

21 April 2012: Dr Sam Williams
Organiser: Conference on 'Regional development in industrialising Britain, c.1670-1860', Local Population Studies Society, Campus West, Welwyn Garden City.

31 March 2012: Dr Sam Williams
'Parish provision for unmarried mothers in London, 1740-1840', Economic History Society Annual Conference, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford.

12 March 2012: Dr Sam Williams
'How generous was the old poor law?', Quantitative History Seminar, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

28 February 2012: Dr Justin Meggitt
'Early-modern European receptions of Islam: sectarian anomalies', Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap, Stockholms universitet.

22-24 February 2012: Dr Ed Turner
'Investigating the design of human-modified landscapes for productivity and conservation', 3rd International Conference on Oil Palm and the Environment (ICOPE), Bali, Indonesia.