Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique
Call For Papers
An international conference hosted by:
The School of Cultural Studies and The Institute of Northern Studies
Leeds Metropolitan University
10-12 July 2009
Since the publication of The Uses of Literacy in 1957, Richard Hoggart has
been one of Britain’s foremost public intellectuals and cultural critics. His work
challenges entrenched disciplinary and social boundaries, addressing a wide
range of subjects including literature, popular culture and the development of
public policy.
His reputation for being both a critical and practical intellectual is evident in
the way that he worked tirelessly within and without the world of academe for
much of his career, working as an extra-mural lecturer at the University of
Hull, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester, Professor of
English and founding Director for the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
at the University of Birmingham, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO and
Warden of Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has also been a key
member of numerous other public bodies and committees, including the
Albermarle Committee on Youth Services, the Pilkington Committee on
Broadcasting, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Royal Shakespeare
Theatre, the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education and the
Broadcasting Research Unit.
During this time he has published over thirty books and contributed to
numerous policy documents, the sum of which represents an extensive and
consistent engagement with normative questions and public discourses that
continue to inform contemporary debates about culture, literacy, educated
citizenship and social democracy.
Confirmed keynote speakers include: Peter Bailey, Ros Brunt, John Corner,
MacDonald Daly, Raj Isar, Sean Matthews, Jim McGuighan, Sue Owen and
Jeremy Seabrook.
There will also be a special session, open to the general public, at which Alan
Bennett and Tony Harrison, both born in Leeds, and whose work has been
influenced by Richard Hoggart, will be in conversation with the author and
broadcaster, Melvyn Bragg.
Papers are invited on any aspect of the work or influence of Richard Hoggart,
but are particularly encouraged on the following themes:
• Cultural Studies: Then & Now
• Uses of Literature
• Cultural & Social History
• Adult Education
• Media, Culture & Society
• Cultural Policy
• Gender, Sexuality & Race
Conference papers will be organized into panel sessions of 90 minutes, each
comprising three 20-minute papers and time for discussion. Proposals may be
submitted either for individual papers or for organized panel sessions of three
papers and a chair.
Abstracts of papers (200 words) should be sent by 30th April 2009 to Pat
Cook/Jean Brownridge. Email: [log in to unmask] Telephone:
+44 (0) 113 812 3120
Further details will be posted on the School of Cultural Studies website in due
course: http//leedsmet.ac.uk/as/cs/
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