Skip to main content

Project Activities

A list of conferences, workshops, talks and more the human remains project has been involved with

Presentations

‘Bone and Stone for the Many and the Few: Charnel and Associated Individual Monuments in Late Medieval England’ by Thomas Fitzgerald (Church Monuments Society Annual All Hallows Lecture 2023)

‘Repurposing of Werburgh’s Remains and Shrine, Chester Cathedral’ – Dr Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin and Tom Livingstone (The Society for Church Archaeology Conference, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and the University of Liverpool, 2023)

‘Bodies on Display: Encountering Charnel in 19th Century England’ – Thomas Fitzgerald (University of Liverpool lecture, 2023)

‘The Preceptory of Slebech: Rethinking Social Function and Burial Practices’ – Dr John Jenkins and Dr Brian Costello (The Society for Church Archaeology Lecture Series, 2023)

‘How Pre-modern Britain managed its ‘ancient dead’: attitudes and authentication’ – Dr Ruth Nugent (The Norwegian Institute in Rome Conference, The Longue Duree of Heritage: Curation of the Past from Antiquity to the Present Day, 2022)

‘The Dissolution of Chantries and Charnel’ – Thomas Fitzgerald (Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Postgraduate Conference, University of Liverpool, 2023)

‘St Werburgh’s Abbey and the Burial Monopoly of Chester’ – Dr Ruth Nugent (Chester Cathedral Heritage Lecture Series, October 2022)

‘Scented Funerals at Chester Cathedral’ [interactive guided tour]’ – Dr Ruth Nugent (Chester Cathedral Heritage Discovery Day, October 2022).

‘’She has been translated to Chester, Where She Now Rests’ St Werburgh and the Sanctioned Theft of Saintly Remains’ – Dr Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin (Chester Cathedral Heritage Lecture Series, October 2022)

‘There’s Something About Mary: Marian Church Dedications and Medieval Castle Foundations in England and Wales’ – Dr Rachel Swallow (Chateau Gaillard Colloque 30, Austria 2022)

‘Excavating Linguistic Patterns from Semantically Tagged Data: A Case Study of the Human Remains Digital Library’ – Dr Isabelle Gribomont (Leeds International Medieval Congress (IMC) 2022)

‘Seeing the Tangible through the Lens of the Intangible: Medieval Romance Literature, Deathscapes, and the Castle’ – Dr Rachel Swallow (IMC 2022)

‘Navigating the Boundaries of Exhumed Bodies: The Human Remains Project’ – Dr Ruth Nugent (IMC 2022)

‘You’ve Gone Too Far: Crossing Boundaries and Disapproving Witnesses in Medieval English Mortuary Accounts Language’ – Dr Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin (IMC 2022)

‘Flickers of Past Practice: The Poetic Lexicon of Cremation in Old English’ – Dr Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin (University of Oxford’s Medieval Research Seminar 2022)

‘The Use of Grep Programming to Unlock Word-Hord: An Old English Poetic Lexicon’ – Dr Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin (University of Oxford’s CLASP Methodologies Workshop 2022)

‘The Trouble with Tombs’ – Dr Ruth Nugent (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Public Lecture 2021)

‘Taphonomy and “Ancient” Human Remains in the Medieval Mind’ – Dr Ruth Nugent (The European Archaeologists Association (EAA) Annual Conference 2021)

‘The Human Remains: a digital library of British Mortuary Science and Investigation’ – Dr Ruth Nugent (Lancaster University Digital Humanities Hangout 2021)

‘Over my Dead Body! Histories of Tomb Opening in Churches’ – Dr Ruth Nugent (Society for Church Archaeology Lecture 2021)

‘The Human Remains: a digital library of British Mortuary Science and Investigation’ – Dr Ruth Nugent (University Archaeology Day 2020)

 

Conferences and Workshops

Organised the Problematic Bodies Conference at the University of Liverpool (2023)

Attended the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII) in Toronto, Canada (2023)

Organised a writing and planning residential workshop for the project team at Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden (2023)

Organised a workshop to collaborate with Prof Liv Nilsson Stutz, Prof Sarah Tarlow, and Dr Rita Peyroteo Stjerna of the Ethical Entanglements project at the University of Liverpool (2023)

Organised through LCMRS a Cathedral Archivist and Academics Networking Workshop (2023)

Attended the European Archaeologists Association (EAA) Conference in Budapest, Hungary (2022)

Attended the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium (2022)

Attended the York Cemeteries Colloquium at the University of York (2022)

Attended the Deceased Management Advisory Group (DMAG) Conference, Stratford-Upon-Avon (2022)

Attended the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Conference (2021)

 

Invited Site Visits and Collaborations

St Collen’s Church, Llangollen (2023)

St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney, Scotland (2023)

University of Leicester and Leicester Cathedral (2022)