Tuesday 1 July

Faculty of English

12.45-13.15

Registration

13.15-13.30

Welcome and Introduction
Marina Warner (Writer, University of Essex) 

13.30-15.00

15.00-16.00 

A: Stories and Histories

The Enigma of Footfalls: Original Memory, Authentic Traces

Chair:  Richard Humphreys (Curator, Programme Research, Tate Britain)

Rebecca Solnit (Writer and Activist)
Infinite City: Some Ideas about Subjective Maps of San Francisco

Robert Macfarlane (Writer, English Literature, University of Cambridge)A Counter-Desecration Phrasebook

Jules Pretty (Biological Sciences, University of Essex)
This Luminous Coast: Walking and Memory

Speaking Cities

Chair: Jan-Melissa Schramm (Literature and Law, University of Cambridge)

Iain Sinclair (Writer)

Suhayl Saadi (Writer)
Quejío!: Scream!

16.00-16.30

Tea/Coffee

16.30-18.00

Soundscapes

Chair: Amanda Hopkinson

Ilona Sekacz (Composer, Music Maps)
Place - Word - Sound - Music 

Georges Szirtes (Poet and Translator, University of East Anglia)
Tiffley Song: The Course of an Exceedingly Small River as Habitation in Verse and Music

Newnham College
18.30-19.00

Reception at Newnham College

19.00-20.00

Rebecca Solnit talk in Sidgwick Hall, Newnham

Chair: Marina Warner

Leaping into the Unknown: Mapping the Unknown

20.00-21.30

Buffet dinner for speakers and paying delegates in Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham

Wednesday 2 July
Faculty of English

9.00-11.00

B: Embodied Knowledge

The Contours of Stewardship

Chair: Jules Pretty (Biological Sciences, University of Essex)

Claire Preston (Literature, University of Cambridge)
Big Dig: the rhetoric of fen drainage

Richard Mabey (Naturalist and Writer)
Against Stewardship: Nature as Colony

Ken Worpole (Writer)

Weak Power: Landscape and Democracy

11.00-11.30

Tea/Coffee

11.30-13.00

Forming Imagination and Memory

Chair: Robert Macfarlane

Marina Warner will read from work by Susannah Radstone, Cultural Studies, University of East London

Grace Lau (Photographer)

Charles Fernyhough (Writer and Psychologist, University of Durham)

Travelling with the Young Doctor Who

13.00-14.00

Lunch 

14.00-16.00

C: Belonging and Translation

Diasporas and Exchanges

Chair: Vesna Goldsworthy (Writer) 

Amanda Hopkinson (Literary Translator and Director, British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia)Location, Locomotion (and a Locomotive): W G Sebald's "Rings of Saturn"

Hazel Marsh (School of Language, Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of East Anglia)
At the Atchin Tan: Gypsies, Music and Memory in East Anglia and South-East England

Joy Gregory (Artist and Photographer)
Land and Language

Kevin Jackson (Writer)
Grey Matters: The Tao and the Buddha on Maid's Causeway

16.00-16.30

Tea/Coffee

16.30-17.30

Belonging and Unbelonging

Chair: Mary Jacobus (University of Cambridge)

Patrick Wright (Writer, Nottingham Trent University)
Are the Ming Tombs really in Wangford, Suffolk?  On Stanley Spencer's visit to China

Bernardine Evaristo (Writer)
When Africa Meets Europe: How people, place and History are remembered and re-invented in the novels "Blonde Roots", "Soul Tourists" and "The Emperor's Babe".

17.30-19.30

Dinner for Speakers

19.30-21.30
Kettle's Yard 

Evening Performance 

7.30-8.10
Readings by the writers Fiona Sampson and Ruth Padel, contributors to the Kettle's Yard anthology, A Room to Live in.  They will be introduced by the editor and poet Tamar Yoseloff.

8.10-8.35
Bar open in the gallery with the opportunity to view the Michelle Charles exhibition.

8.35-9.05
Dan Fern (Professor of Communication Art and Design, Royal College of Art)
On High Bright Hills 

9.05-9.20
Adrian May (Balladeer, University of Essex) 

Thursday 3 July

Kettle's Yard and Cambridge Folk Museum

Optional event and payable 

9.30-11.00 

Guided Walking tour of Cambridge with Jon Harris (Artist and Writer)

11.00-11.30 

Tea/Coffee at Kettle's Yard 

11.30-13.30 

Writing Workshop at Kettle's Yard and Cambridge Folk Museum

Philip Terry
Adrian May
Marina Warner
George Szirtes