Parish Symposia 2003-
Supported by the
HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE at the UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Since its launch in 2003, the ‘Warwick Symposium on Parish Research’ has been held annually -
bringing together delegates from numerous countries, disciplines, periods and (non-)academic backgrounds:
ALL RESEARCHERS WITH PARISH-RELATED INTERESTS ARE VERY WELCOME:
Twenty-Second Meeting: 'Parish Memory' (11 May 2024 - tbc), co-organized with Miia Kuha (Jyväskylä / My-Parish Visiting Researcher)
Twenty-First Meeting: 'Parish & Performance' - Saturday 13 May 2023, co-organized with John S. Craig (Simon Fraser / REED)
Twentieth Anniversary Meeting: 'Writing the Parish' - Saturday 7 May 2022, co-organized with Arnd Reitemeier (Göttingen)
Nineteenth: 'Parish, Power & Politics', Webinar 7-8 May 2021, co-organized with Marjolein Schepers (VUB Brussel/IAS)
Eighteenth: Remembering the Parish - WEBINAR on 7 November 2020
Seventeenth: Parish Participation, Saturday 18 May 2019, co-organized with Malin Lennartsson (Linnaeus)
Sixteenth: Parishes & Migration (12/5/18), organized in conjunction with the Marie Skłodowska Curie MIGMEDLink opens in a new window project
Fifteenth: 'The Digital Parish' - Saturday 20 May 2017
Fourteenth: ‘Reflecting the Parish’ - 7 May 2016
Thirteenth: ‘Warwickshire Parishes: History & Legacies’ 16 May 2015
Twelfth: ‘Parish Soundscapes’ 10 May 2014
Eleventh: ‘Berkswell and Beyond’ 25 May 2013
Tenth Anniversary Meeting: ‘Parish Studies Today’ 25-27 May 2012
Testimonials
‘I wanted … to let you know how influential the symposium was in shaping my own research.’
(Eric W. Nelson, Missouri State University, 2006)
‘An important annual conference on the parish and parish material, insisting upon the
importance of comparative history and interdisciplinary approaches.’
(John Craig, ‘Parish Religion’, in: S. Doran and N. Jones eds, The Elizabethan World, 2011, p. 225)