Welcome to the Fifth Cambridge AHRC DTP International Conference
Form and Forgetting
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Form and Forgetting
The fifth Annual Cambridge AHRC DTP Conference will bring together students from within the current Cambridge AHRC DTP cohorts and from partner institutions of international standing to facilitate the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and the development of collaborative networks. The Cambridge AHRC DTP is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK (AHRC) and exists to provide studentships and personal and professional development at PhD level in the following broad AHRC-designated subject domains: history, thought and systems of belief; creative and performing arts; cultures and heritage; languages and literatures.
Afternoon Events
Keynote Lecture
Keynote Lecture: ‘Form against Forgetting. Projects of commemoration of the Siege of Leningrad as seen by architects and the public of the 1960s: A Modernist memorial for the Classical city’
Dr. Vadim Bass, European University at St Petersburg
Interactive Presentation
Interactive Presentation: ‘How to Destroy a Book’
Gill Partington, University of Exeter
Round Table Discussion
Round Table Discussion: Careers after an arts and humanities PhD
PANELLISTS: Dr Vadim Bass (Art History, EUSP), Diane Caldwell-Hird (Careers Service, Cambridge), Professor Diana Henderson (Literature, MIT), Professor Richard Rex (Divinity, Cambridge), Professor Andreas Speer (Philosophy, a.r.t.e.s.), Professor Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre (German, Stockholm). CHAIR: Dr Alistair Swiffen (AHRC Doctoral Training Facilitator, Cambridge)
Social Event
Social Event: "Form and Forgetting" Quiz
Hosts: The Conference Committee