People's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes

A roundtable discussion exploring the ways in which writers,
artists and musicians have both responded to and created
conceptions of 'place' throughout history. Thursday 16th May 2019.
People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a
lecture series convened by the University of Oxford's National
Trust Partnership, which brings together experts and commentators
from a range of institutions, professions and academic disciplines
to explore people’s engagement with and impact upon land and
landscape in the past, present and future. The National Trust cares
for 248,000 hectares of open space across England, Wales and
Northern Ireland; landscapes which hold the voices and heritage of
millions of people and track the dramatic social changes that
occurred across our nations' past. In the year when Manchester
remembers the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, the
National Trust's 2019 People’s Landscapes programme is drawing out
the stories of the places where people joined to challenge the
social order and where they demonstrated the power of a group of
people standing together in a shared place. Throughout this year
the National Trust is asking people to look again, to see beyond
the green and pleasant land, and to find the radical histories that
lie, often hidden, beneath their feet. At the second event in the
series, Creative Landscapes, panellists explore the ways in which
writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created
conceptions of 'place' throughout history, considering the role of
taste, nostalgia and imaginary spaces in our understanding of
landscape today. Speakers: Alice Purkiss, National Trust
Partnership Lead, University of Oxford (Welcome) Helen Antrobus,
Contemporary Arts Programme Manager, National Trust (Introduction)
Grace Davies, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust
(Chair) Kate Stoddart, Independent Curator, Project Manager and
Mentor Dr Rosemary Shirley, Senior Lecturer Art Theory and
Practice, Manchester Metropolitan University Craig Oldham, Designer
and Creative Consultant Professor Fiona Stafford, Professor of
English Language and Literature, University of Oxford For more
information about the People’s Landscapes Lecture Series and the
National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please
visit: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership