The Symposium has been held annually since 2003. This year’s theme intersects with the interdisciplinary field of memory studies, focusing particularly on when / how / why parishioners remember(ed) events, customs, people and other aspects of their locality & culture. The meeting coincides with Miia Kuha’s visiting fellowship at My-Parish & Beat Kümin’s project on tower capsule deposits.

We now invite 15-minute contributions on any related topic, source, concept, method or debate from the Middle Ages to the present for the British Isles, Continental Europe and / or the wider world. Proposals should contain a title, abstract and brief biographical note (on max. 2 A4-pages) and reach miia.p.kuha@jyu.fi & b.kumin@warwick.ac.uk by 1 March 2024. The Symposium will be held on Warwick's Central Campus near Coventry and has always been an inclusive forum of exchange between anyone with active research interests in parish culture from whatever background or career stage. It may be possible to offer a small number of postgraduate bursaries to help with travel expenses – please let the organizers know if you would like to apply.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Warwick's Network for Parish Research / History Department / Humanities Research Centre & the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Further information and programme details will be published on our homepage at: http://warwick.ac.uk/my-parish/parishsymposia/memory/