International Peace Conference "Conflict, cultural heritage and regional development" November 7 - 9 2012

First International Peace Conference, on conflict, cultural heritage and regional development. November 2012

The conference will be held in the city of Wageningen, The Netherlands, also known as the 'City of Liberation' and the 'City of Life Sciences'. It is being organized by Liberation Day Committee 1945 Wageningen (as a member of the European Network of Places of Peace ) in cooperation with the Wageningen University and Research Centre and Inholland University of Applied Sciences. 

http://www.peaceconference.org/


Call for Abstracts
The Liberation Day Committee 1945 Wageningen (as member of the European Network of Places of Peace), Wageningen University and Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, are organizing an international conference about peace, cultural heritage and regional development.
Conflicts sometimes lead to violent encounters that result in casualties and damage to infrastructure, housing and the environment. Often, traumatic experiences brought about by these become the subject of commemorations that contribute to places linked to them gaining material and/or symbolic significance within the country or regionally. This is particularly true when residents and policymakers implement initiatives to embrace them as part of collective memory, pedagogy and/or as local heritage attractions. Every year many thousands, sometimes millions of people visit places like Ypres, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Choeung Ek and Gettysburg. Wageningen, marked as the City of Liberation, also attracts more than 100.000 visitors annually as part of national commemoration and liberation festivals in the Netherlands.
This conference seeks to further our understanding of the perceptions, processes and problems related to some of these places transformed into key sites for memory, education and consumption, or even commodification. Following a multidisciplinary approach during the conference social, political, economical and developmental aspects will be taken into account as well as other issues associated with the establishment of the memory sites. It also explores how such sites may be developed as ‘peace institutions’ that aim to encourage the prevention of future conflicts. We welcome case studies drawn from the Netherlands as well as from other international contexts.
Relevant topics may include (but not be limited to):
-       Connections between memory, commemoration and identity;
-       Historical geographies and genealogies of places of war and peace;
-       Politics of trauma sites as heritage/tourism attractions;
-       Visitor patterns at, and perspectives of, places of war and peace;
-       Social, economic and political impacts of places of war and peace;
-       Educational potential of trauma sites, and related problems;
-       Visitor management at places of war and peace
-       Trauma sites as peace museums and institutions; etc.

The scientific committee is currently accepting submissions. Paper presentations on all issues related to these topics are welcome. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.

Date of conference:                    November (7), 8 and 9, 2012
Location:                                   Wageningen, The Netherlands

Deadline for Submissions
October 1, 2012.

Guidelines
Abstracts of papers, in the range of 400 to 500 words, should be sent to info@peaceconference.org  Only submissions written in sound English will be considered.

A short biography should also be included, containing relevant information about the author's academic background and previous publications.

Landscape in a Changing World: Lesbos

Further to - and complimentary with - my earlier post on a conference centred on the Kaz Mountains, Mt Ida, source of the Cybele earth-goddess cult . This September there is a conference on changing landscapes at Lesbos, which lies opposite Mt Ida

Britain from Above, Unidentified photos

The excellent Britain from Above website is looking for anyone who can identify aerial photos, such as the one above. Please follow the link    http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?filter=28706  and do what you can

Trading Places and Travelling - Musical Legacies of the Hanseatic League

The colony of German merchants from Lubeck, Hamburg and Cologne were given privileges to trade without tolls in England by Henry II. Their office -Kontor- stood in the area now occupied by Cannon Street Station and was known as the Steelyard from the middle of the 15th century. In order to receive privileges at the Steelyard they rebuilt and maintained the Bishopsgate ; from where roads led to their other centres at Boston and Lynn      Hanseatic warehouse Kings Lynn . The league traded as far north as Shetland, where Bergen had a booth to store salted fish  Symbister Booth  . Their privileged position was rescinded by Elizabeth I, and they were expelled from London. Although they returned under James I they never regained their former strength. Below is a talk about the consequences of these wide trading networks on music.  

by Dr Geoffrey Webber

Overview

The cities of Northern Europe developed their trading links with our own City of London.  An important by product of their economic success was the flowering of culture in all these cities and their attraction of talent from other places

Transcript of lecture     PDF of presentation

Speaker

Dr Geoffrey Webber

Dr Geoffrey Webber is Precentor and Director of Studies in Music at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Thames Discovery Programme Foreshore Forum 8th December

From http://www.thamesdiscovery.org/frog-blog/foreshore-forum-2012-call-for-papers

• By: Nathalie Cohen | 
• Aug 13, 2012 Thames Discovery Programme

Foreshore Forum 2012: Call for Papers

Get Involved!

The fourth annual Thames Discovery Programme Foreshore Forum will be held at the Institute of Archaeology, London on Saturday 8th December 2012. This event will be the first forum held under the auspices of our new hosts Museum of London Archaeology, and we hope it will be a great opportunity for everyone involved in London’s biggest (and best!) community archaeology project to get together and share their experiences.

The Thames Discovery Programme team is looking for short presentations of twenty minutes to half an hour on any subject relating to the history and archaeology of the Thames – if you are interested in presenting a paper at the conference, please get in touch with Nathalie.

• By: Nat

The 2nd International Symposium on Kaz Mountains and Edremit

I had this conference details sent to me and thought it worthwhile passing them on....

The second International Symposium on Kaz Mountains (Mount Ida) and Edremit - Human-Environment Interactions” will be held in Edremit-Turkey, on 3rd to 5th May, 2013. This symposium is organized to bring together academic scientists, researchers from different countries to meet and do discuss current research. The Symposium is broad in scientific scope, are open to all academicians those interested in environment, ecology, mountain ecosystems, biology, human-environment interactions, geography, agriculture, culture, and related subjects.

Under classical Greece and Rome, and probably for many years before,  Turkish Mount Ida was dedicated to the worship of Cybele . 

...also worshipped in London Alter?  Testicular clamp

All accepted submissions will be published in the Symposium Proceedings with an ISBN number.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for possible publication in edited international journal or book.

The organizing committee will provide accommodation support during the symposium for the authors of the selected full papers.

The abstract submission deadline has been extended until, 30 November 2012

Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be submitted to: recepefe@hotmail.com  

The language of the symposium will be English and Turkish.

In addition to the academic programs at the Symposium, there will be organized excursions an

For further information and updates about the symposium, please visit the Symposium website at:

http://www.kazdaglarisymposium.org.tr

GİRİŞ	2.Uluslararası Kazdağları ve Edremit Sempozyumu 3-5 Mayıs 2013 The 2nd International Symposium on Kaz Mountains and EdremitHuman-Environment Interactions and Ecology of Mountain Ecosystems May 3-5, 2013 Edremit-Balikesir-Turkey	ENTER

Germans in the East End of London

Perhaps it is the effect of the Blitz, but whereas the Huguenot French silk weavers of Spitalfields are celebrated, the German community south of Whitechapel High Street are little known now.

St Georg Lutheran Church - see http://www.panoramio.com/photo/76991412

They specialised in the Sugar-baking (sugar making) industry in the 18th century, buying raw cane syrup, boiling it and moulding crystalline sugar loafs and extracting black molasses.
They were notoriously poor in the main, but sugar merchants could become wealthy by exploiting their kinsfolk. One such  Dietrich Beckmann founded the church and his workers provided much of the congregation
We can only speculate how the community may have influenced Thomas Paine, who taught at Mr Noble's Academy, nearby in Mill Court Leman Street, a few years after St Georg's was built. But "No one man is capable, without the aid of society, of supplying his own wants, and those wants, acting upon every individual, impel the whole of them into society" (Rights of Man, Chapter 1) may reflect a desire to include previously pariah people into the broader commonwealth of society.

German immigrants were divided between Lutheran and Catholics

Bell Tower of St Boniface German Catholic Church (right) from the site of St Mary Matfelon (the White Chapel) http://www.panoramio.com/photo/68519554

Local sugar bakers from http://www.mawer.clara.net/white3.html <- original has link to database with names and dates

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The Uncommercial Traveller, created by Charles Dickens in the 1860s, visited the East End of London only a few times. On a walk to Wapping workhouse - "....was in Commercial Rd. Pleasantly wallowing in the abundant mud of that thoroughfare, and greatly enjoying the huge piles of building belonging to the sugar refiners,....". And once accompanying a policeman on his beat...."My beat lying round by Whitechapel Church, and the adjacent sugar-refineries, - great buildings, tier upon tier, that have the appearance of being nearly related to the dock-warehouses at Liverpool,..."
"The Uncommercial Traveller", a series of papers for a periodical, begun in 1860, by Charles Dickens, and edited and corrected by him in 1867-8.

http://www.mawer.clara.net/refineries.html#dick

By the 19th Century, the sugar industry had been concentrated in fewer hands. Instead of outsourcing the work to poor households, merchants had turned it into an industrial process and built large refineries.

19th-century German and English School  http://www.panoramio.com/photo/76991424

European Islands Landscape Conference

As part of the ESLAND project (http://www.eslandproject.eu/) there's going to be a conference on European Island landscapes in Sardinia in October

Late Bird Registration and Fees Payment
For those registering after 31 July 2012, late bird registration and the full payment of conference fees, €300, will remain open until 15 September 2012.

Registration Form
Click here to download the Registration Form to book your place as presenter, delegate or accompanying person at the conference. Forms must be filled in and submitted by 31 July 2012 for Early Birds, and by 15 September 2012 for Late Birds, to the ESLAND Conference Secretariat.

Payment
For payment of conference fees please click below

 

3S RtL Co@st Econet EucalandEsland goal & topic framework programme timeline registrationvenue contacts

11 October 2012  Morning Opening of the conference Welcome from local authorities Key note speakers Afternoon ESLAND Project research on landscape history, characterisation, identity, scenarios of European islands, related e-tools and methods Evening Conference dinner with traditional food, dance and music 12 October 2012  Morning European authorities welcome Key note speakers Presentations from academics and scientists on European island landscape history and characterisation Afternoon Presentations from academics and scientists on European island landscape identity, scenarios and e-tools Late afternoon Conference closure in Sassari 13 October 2012  All dayField trip to Asinara island Late afternoonEvent closure in Asinara

3S RtL Co@st Econet EucalandEsland goal & topic framework programme timeline registrationvenue contacts View Larger Map ESLAND CONFERENCE VENUE Aula Magna University of Sassari Piazza Università 21 07100 Sassari Italy  SASSARI Sassari, situated in the north of Sardinia, is a lively modern city with an attractive historic centre and a strong cultural heritage. For more information on Sassari, visit: www.italia.it/en/discover-italy/sardinia/sassari.html ASINARA The island of Asinara has a beautiful indented coastline and an unusual history. Human presence on the island dates back to the Neolithic Age. Now uninhabited, the island has served as a quarantine centre, an imprisonment camp during World War I, and more recently, as a top security prison. This century-long isolation has contributed to the conservation of a variety of natural habitats as well as to its unique cultural heritage. For more information on Asinara, visit: www.parks.it/parco.nazionale.asinara/Eindex.php HOW TO ARRIVE The most direct and convenient way to arrive in Sassari is by plane. The closest airport is Alghero (Fertilia), 36 kilometres west of Sassari and easily reached by road or public transport. Buses connect with the main flights and taxis can be found outside the airport. www.aeroportodialghero.it/home_en.asp Olbia airport is 100 kilometres east of Sassari. Cagliari (Elmas) Airport, is 200 kilometres south. Sassari is also reachable by ferry. The closest seaport is Porto Torres (15 kilometres north), another is Olbia. There are also bus and train connections to Sassari. Sassari bus station is on the outskirts of the city. The easiest way to reach the conference venue or hotel accommodation is by taxi, a short ride from the bus station. ACCOMMODATION Hotels with special prices for conference participants Please contact hotels directly Hotel Vittorio Emanuele Corso Vittorio Emanuele n. 100/102 - 07100 Sassari (SS) - Italy Tel: +39 079 235538 - +39 079 2006696 Email:info@hotelvittorioemanuele.ss.it Website: www.hotelvesassari.it/en Hotel Grazia Deledda Viale Dante, 47 - 07100 Sassari (SS) Sardegna - Italia Tel: +39 079 271235 Email:info@hotelgraziadeledda.it Website: www.hotelgraziadeledda.it Hotel Leonardo Da Vinci Via Roma, 79 - 07100 Sassari (SS) Sardegna - ITALIA Tel: +39 079 280744 Email:info@leonardodavincihotel.it Website: www.leonardodavincihotel.it

Whitechapel Bell Foundry - last of its type in the east End of London

Whitechapel Bell Foundry, a set on Flickr.

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry (Britain's oldest manufacturing company) is the last example in the area of a once typical industry. The City of London pushed out its smellier industries to the east, as the prevailing winds were form the west. Brass-founding, gun-founding and bell-founding all congregated in the Aldgate and Whitechapel area. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is one of two bell foundries working in Britain. it employs about 30 people and hangs bells as well as cast and tunes them. Click on thumbnails above for details of the process  ,  for an archaeological investigation of  "copper-alloy founding" on a nearby site see Sygrave, pages 77-98 on http://www.lamas.org.uk/archives/transactions-archive/Vol%2056.pdf 

more of the history and technique from their website  http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/


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Vikings at St Katharine Dock

Vikings at St Katharine Dock, a set on Flickr.

As part of general Olympic fun, along with Lego and Pink Pigs, the Danes brought over the Helge Ask, a replica of the Skuldelev-5, Viking longship. This small vessel was thought to be for fast coastal defence and had a crew of 30.

Viking Ship Museum - Helge Ask

  It underlines tho' an important north-sea connection and the Thames maritime role. The boat dates from around 1040, near to the death of King Canute (Cnut the Great) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great  and to around the time the Vikings were expelled from the towns they founded in Ireland by Brian Boru http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Boru

As a consequence of both the conquest of |England by Canute, and expulsion of Vikings from Ireland, the Danish and Norwegian influence in Britain increased (Canute also held the Isle of Man, Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland). The influence can be seen in placenames (eg force = waterfall) and archaeologically by "Hogsback Graves" and/or stones decorated with Ringerike-style decoration  such as the slab found near St Paul's below