Robert Edgar, Fraser Mann, Amy McCarthy and Helen Pleasance presented ‘Supporting Local Music Venues through Narrative and Memory’ at the NAWE (National Association of Writers in Education), Online conference on 11th March, 2023
Robert Edgar, Fraser Mann and Helen Pleasance presented Venue Stories – a developing archive, Telling Stories: An International Conference on Music Archives and Heritage Narratives, Manchester Metropolitan University, 17th-19th November 2022
Robert Edgar, Fraser Mann and Helen Pleasance presented Venue Stories/Music Memoir Research Group Paper, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, University of Michigan, Detroit, 26-28 May 2022
Robert Edgar, Fraser Mann and Helen Pleasance presented on Venue Stories at the International Conference of Autoethnography, July 2021
Robert Edgar, Fraser Mann and Helen Pleasance presented Music, Memory and Memoir – an emerging genre, at Writing the noise, the politics and history of subcultural music, Subculture Network, Reading University, September 2018
Conference Organisation
‘You’re Twisting My Memory Man’: Music, Memory and Memoir, York St John University, July 2018
In 2018 the research group hosted a conference, including keynotes (including performances) from Tom Hingley, Julianne Regan, William Potter and Carl Puttnam from CUD, and Lucy O’Brien.
