Over the next two days the University will be hosting an innovative conference on Heritage and Biography, at Canterbury on Friday 9th September and at Medway on Saturday 10th September.

Under the critical recognition that we become who we are by telling stories about our pasts, and living the stories we tell, this two-day interdisciplinary event aims to bring together perspectives on the relationship between heritage and biography from sociology and cultural studies, literary studies, social history, cultural geography and socio-legal studies.

The event has been organised by University of Kent postgraduate students Emma Pleasant, Sophie Rowland and Luke Shoveller (ESRC), supported by Dr David Nettleingham ^[6] (Lecturer in Cultural Sociology, University of Kent) and the Graduate School. The group was awarded funding following an open competition organised by the ESRC South East Doctoral Training Centre (SEDTC).

Keynote speeches will be given by Patrick Wright, Professor of Modern Cultural Studies, King’s College London and Tim Strangleman, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent