Retirement
Symposium, Party, and 'Memory Book'
I
retired from my University Professorship on September 30th 2009. On
July 4th ('Independence Day') I celebrated with friends,
family and colleagues in the Saltmarsh Rooms at King's.
Symposium
Caroline
Humphrey: ‘Archives, Traditions and Institutional Memory’
Keith
Thomas: ‘Alan Macfarlane and the Middle Ages’
Peter
Burke: ‘Historical Anthropology: when, why and how’
Jack
Goody (read by James Laidlaw in Jack Goody’s absence): ‘The Europeanist
and the Eurasianist’
After the
papers I made an informal response.
Party
and 'Memory Book'
In the
evening I gave a party which was filmed
by Zilan Wang. I have edited it with a personal commentary to share
with those who were there and those who were not. I apologise in advance
for any errors that I may have made in identification or description!
A number
of those who came to the party (and others who could not come) wrote
some memories of their relationship with me. These are in a ‘Memory
Book’, which can be updated if further contributions emerge.