Abstracts are invited for the Heritage and Biography conference taking place from 9-10 September 2016. The deadline for submissions is 7 July 2016.

More about the conference

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.

We invite doctoral and early career researchers to submit abstracts on heritage’s relationship to personal, community, national, ethnic, gendered and political biographies, bringing a critical focus to heritage as a product and expression of an evolving and dynamic negotiation of past, present and future.

The event is organised by University of Kent postgraduate students Luke Shoveller (ESRC), Emma Pleasant, Sophie Rowland and Katy Lawn (ESRC; Royal Holloway), supported by Dr David Nettleingham (Lecturer in Cultural Sociology, University of Kent).

The group was awarded funding following an open competition organised by the ESRC South East Doctoral Training Centre (SEDTC) and will take place at the University of Kent in Canterbury on Friday 9 September and Medway on Saturday 10 September 2016.

Sent in by hva@kent.ac.uk.