{"id":296,"date":"2015-06-03T14:11:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=296"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:27:09","slug":"50th-anniversary-history-projects-witness-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2015\/06\/03\/50th-anniversary-history-projects-witness-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary History Projects &#8211; Witness Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2015\/06\/Witness-Seminar-Kent-50-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2015\/06\/Witness-Seminar-Kent-50-large-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"A group of University of Kent students in the 1970s\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2015\/06\/Witness-Seminar-Kent-50-large-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2015\/06\/Witness-Seminar-Kent-50-large-454x300.jpg 454w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2015\/06\/Witness-Seminar-Kent-50-large.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As part of the School of History\u2019s 50th Anniversary History Projects, we are holding a Witness Seminar on the evening of Monday 8 June 2015 from 6:30-7:45pm in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/canterbury\/canterbury-campus\/building\/grimond-building\/glt1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grimond Lecture Theatre 1<\/a>. This will take the form of a roundtable discussion, with past and present staff and students of the University exploring some of their experiences at Kent over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar will be chaired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/staff\/profiles\/pattinson.html\">Juliette Pattinson<\/a>, Reader of History, and will include the following panellists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amy Harrison &#8211; 2nd year undergraduate student reading for a BA in History<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/journalism\/staff.html\">Tim Luckhurst<\/a> &#8211; Professor of Journalism and Head of the University\u2019s Centre for Journalism<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ovc\/executivegroup\/executivebiographies\/seniordvc.html\">David Nightingale<\/a> &#8211; Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Senior Lecturer in Ancient History<\/li>\n<li>Doreen Rosman &#8211; A former Lecturer in History at Kent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The panel will be discussing their time at Kent, and audience members will be encouraged to ask questions and share their own experiences. The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception and buffet to launch an exhibition of student volunteers\u2019 work on the University\u2019s history to date in the Aphra Foyer (Grimond Building).<\/p>\n<p>If you cannot make it along on the evening, the exhibition will be running from Monday 8 through to Friday 12 June, and we hope you can enjoy our volunteers work.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event or the exhibition, please contact Dr Mark Hurst, <a href=\"mailto:M.R.L.Hurst@kent.ac.uk\">M.R.L.Hurst@kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the History Projects and celebration events can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/50\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the special University of Kent 50th anniversary website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the School of History\u2019s 50th Anniversary History Projects, we are holding a Witness Seminar on the evening of Monday 8 June 2015 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2015\/06\/03\/50th-anniversary-history-projects-witness-seminar\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2580,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,124],"tags":[133,1346,13893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}