Bridging Seas and Centuries: The Beiyang Sailors Legacy Symposium
About the event
This two-day event is an interdisciplinary Symposium. It will explore broad questions of heritage, memory, and urban transformation in both the UK and China. It will use the Beiyang Fleet Sailors Cemetery in Newcastle as a starting point.
The event is anchored in the historical presence of Chinese sailors in the North East of England. It brings together scholars and practitioners from across:
- history
- archaeology
- cultural heritage and museum studies
- management and organisational research
- tourism studies
- intercultural communication
It seeks to understand how industrial and maritime legacies are remembered, governed, interpreted, and reimagined within changing urban, social, and geopolitical landscapes.
Participants will engage with case studies, theoretical frameworks, and practice-based insights. The event will foster dialogue among academics, heritage professionals, city stakeholders, and the wider public.
Submission guidelines
Participants who wish to give a presentation at the symposium are invited to submit an abstract of 150–250 words.
Abstracts should clearly address one or more of the conference themes. They should articulate their relevance to the symposium’s focus on heritage, memory, cross-cultural dialogue, and urban transformation in the context of the Beiyang Fleet Sailors Cemetery.