Place and Community Conference

1-15 September 2020

Welcome to the Place and Community online conference!

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York Mysteries @ Home

Tom Straszewski

Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media

Building Safe Spaces as a Key to Creating Post-Covid-Communities

Christa Knellwolf-King

Sultan Qaboos University, Oman / Department of English and Related Literature

Experiencing York: the real city and the virtual city

Kate Giles and Dee Dyas

Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture

Adapting Community and Place: The Lords of Misrule Go Online

Nicola Peard and Emily Hansen

Centre for Medieval Studies

Communities and World Heritage during lockdown

Jessica Wight

Department of Archaeology


York's Medieval City Walls

Barry Crump

Centre for Lifelong Learning


Gold Mining and Participatory Theatre in Ghana

Paul Kerswill

Department of Language and Linguistic Science

Thin Ice Press: Place & Community

JT Welsch

Department of English and Related Literature

Science, Church and Community in Times of Covid-19

Franziska Kohlt

Department of Sociology


Possible futures for a radically open large-scale community theatre

Mark Smith

Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media

Pride & Prejudice in a Tale of Two Cities

Claire Boardman

Department of Archaeology

Church choirs, Covid, and Community

Leonard Sanderman

Leeds College of Music / Department of Music

Digitally-Enabled Sensory Experiences

Keith Allen

Department of Philosophy

The Walls Project

Erica Sheen

Department of English and Related Literature

News from Nowhere (and everywhere): rejuvenating an old-fashioned scholarly society

Ann-Marie Akehurst

Society of Architectural Historians (GB)

Places, Communities and the Centre for Medieval Studies

Tim Ayers and Elizabeth Tyler

Centre for Medieval Studies

Talking our way into community

Richard Ogden

Department of Language and Linguistic Science