On Saturday 8th October 2011 UEA will be hosting the Society for Landscape Studies Autumn conference, ‘Ancient Trees and Woodpastures’ with speakers including Tom Williamson, Della Hooke and Andrew Fleming.
Ecologists and arboriculturalists have long emphasised the importance of ancient and traditionally-managed trees, and in particular the concentrations of such trees found in wood-pastures, for their role in maintaining biodiversity. Landscape historians are increasingly making their own, distinctive contribution to this important area of study. Why are ancient trees found where they are? How were trees managed in the past, and why? What did past generations think about old trees? In this conference some of the country’s leading landscape historians consider these and other important questions, placing ancient trees firmly within their wider historical contexts.
The deadline for conference registration is 16th September 2011 (forms can be downloaded here) and the cost is £20 or £12 for students.
Speakers:
Rob Liddiard (UEA) ‘What was a deer park?’
Patsy Dallas (UEA) ‘Wood-pasture commons in post-medieval Norfolk’
Della Hooke ‘Anglo-Saxon wood-pastures’
Tom Williamson (UEA) ‘The landscape contexts of ancient trees: a Norfolk case study’
Nicola Whyte (Univ. of Exeter) ‘Trees and memory in early-modern England’
Andrew Fleming (Univ. of Wales) ‘The pollards of Powys: working with Welsh wood-pasture’
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