Ironbridge, Innovation, and Imagination: Industrial Memory as Global Challenge

A Keele Institute for Social Inclusion/Keele Deal project in collaboration with ILAS and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust.

Keele have partnered with the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in a move that will develop student opportunities and open doors for new research into 300 years of industrialisation.  You can watch a short video about this new partnership here.

Abstract

As the world moves, however slowly, to a zero-carbon economy, this roundtable discussion will seek out the lessons that our existing industrial heritage might hold for how we deal with this transition. It will bring together voices from Keele University and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust in the first act of an important new partnership, and tackle topics as diverse as how industrial heritage can remain relevant to many different communities, what 'just' means in terms of memory and history, and the challenges and roles for heritage sites in a changing climate.

Chair

Professor David Amigoni

David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature and Director of the Keele Institute for Social Inclusion. He has published widely on life writing, culture and science in the Victorian period. He is a member of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trusts Collections and Learning Committee.

Speakers

Professor Ceri Morgan

Ceri Morgan is Professor of Place-writing and Geohumanities in the School of Humanities and Postgraduate Research Director for Humanities at Keele University.  Her teaching specialisms are contemporary literary studies and theory, late twentieth century and twenty-first century fiction, place-writing (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction), spatial theory, creative prose, and critical-creative writing.

Dr Ben Anderson

Dr Ben Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental History at Keele University, with an interest in the material relationships between people and landscape. He has worked on  'decommissioned' infrastructures and their communities, European mountaineering and hill-walking, histories of ultraviolet light, and the potential of creative methods to inform future historical research. 

Dr Michael Nevell

Dr Michael Nevell, FSA, MCIfA, is the Industrial Heritage Support Officer for England, at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. He has more than 30 years of experience as a field archaeologist, and taught undergraduates and post-graduates as a senior lecturer for 18 years at Manchester and Salford universities. A former Chair of the Association for Industrial Archaeology, he is the author of over 100 academic papers and books including the Archaeology of Ironbridge in 20 Digs (forthcoming); the Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (2022); The Archaeology of Manchester in 20 Digs (Amberley Publishing, 2020), and The Birth of an Industrial City: Glasgow and the Archaeology of the M74 (Society of Antiquaries Scotland 2016). He is President of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, edits the Association for Industrial Archaeology newsletter, ‘IA News’, is the European Route of Industrial Heritage representative for England, and provides secretarial support for the All Party Parliamentary Group ion Industrial Heritage.

Abbie King

Abbie King is the Chief Operating Officer at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. She is a Museum professional with over 30 years experience in the sector, and her work has  been focused on operations and commercial within the museum world. Her visitor focused, commercial background gives her a valuable insight into the importance of collections, and the importance of collaborative working at the point of contact with museum visitors.

This lecture will only be available to watch online via Microsoft Teams.  Please register (by no later than 4.00pm on the day of the event) and joining instructions with further information will follow ahead of the event.  You can watch via your browser - there will be no need to download the Microsoft Teams App.

 


Event date
Event Time
6:00PM
Location
Online only via MS Teams
Organiser
Professor Tim Lustig and Steve Kilner - ILAS
Contact email
ilas@keele.ac.uk
Contact telephone
01782 7 34449