9.30 Coffee & Registration

10-11.15 Welcome & Keynote Address
Katalin Szende (Central European University): ‘The parish as a place of memory in medieval Central Europe’

11.15-12.15 Session 1: Medieval Culture
Heather Falvey (Cambridge / Oxford): ‘Remembering the parish (priest): Mortuary bequests in medieval England’
Jessica Knowles (Vienna): ‘Commemorating Apocalypse: The Fifteen Last Days in All Saints, North Street’
Cindy Wood (Winchester): ‘The Parish Church of Ludlow, the 1547 Chantry Act and Commemoration of the Dead’

12.15-1.00 Lunch

1.-2.20 Session 2: Memory Sources
Ian Atherton (Keele): ‘Early Modern English Parish Registers as Forms of Memory’
Bernard Capp (Warwick): ‘Richard Gough and his Memories of Myddle’
Miia Kuha (Jyväskylä / My-Parish Visiting Researcher): ‘Remembering the pastor’s wife: Roles and responsibilities of 17th -century Finnish clergymen’s wives in funeral biographies’
Beat Kümin (Warwick): ‘Conceal to Connect: Tower Capsules in the Deposit Culture of the German Lands’

2.30-3.10 Session 3: Memory Divisions
Martin Duffy (Cambridge): ‘Parish Memory during the Irish Decade of Centenaries 2012-2022’
Jim Reilly (Edinburgh): ‘The contested memory of religious persecution in the early modern Scottish parish’

3.15-45 Tea

3.45-5.05 Session 4: Parishes Remembered
Cheryl Butler (Winchester): ‘Why remember Peartree?’
Adinel Dinca (Cluj-Napoca): ‘Accessing the Memory in the Pre-Modern Parish of the Transylvanian Saxons’
Aidan Jones (King’s London): ‘’The simple, pretty little village church’: Queen Victoria’s Isle of Wight Parish Church’
Béla Vilmos Mihalik (Budapest): ‘Memory of the Old Parish: The Case of Hungary’

5.10-5.50 Session 5: Parish Spaces
Jason Frost (Independent Scholar): ‘From Parochial Memory to Physical Memorialisation; How God’s Acre became Contested Space’
Kaye Sowden (Canterbury Christ Church): ‘An Ancient man of four score and 10: Bearing witness in parish disputes and the recording of happenings’

Concluding remarks