Digging the Seam: the Miners Strike of 1984/5
25th-27th March 2010, University of Leeds.
Registration is now open for this conference, which is aimed at both HE
scholars and the public, with keynote speakers representing different
approaches to the ‘re-telling’ of the strike:
David Peace (author of GB84)
Julian Petley (Brunel)
Simon Popple (Leeds)
Patrick Russell and Ros Cranston (BFI)
Yvette Vanson (documentary maker) and Michael Mansfield.
Poet Ian McMillan, and the world premiere of Songs at the Year’s End with
music by Hugh Nankivell.
Exhibition, performance, screenings, testimony and academic papers. With
contributions from: John Hyatt (MMU, the Three Johns); Richard Crangle
(Exeter), Rosemary Preece (National Coal Mining Museum for England), Sue
Owen (Sheffield), Michael Bailey (Leeds Met), Patricia Holland (Bournemouth);
Granville Williams; Dave Rogers (Banner Theatre); Ian Beasley (photographer)
and others.
The conference looks at mainstream and alternative representations of the
strike at the time, and subsequently, across the broad range of cultural
expression such as the press, TV, film, performance, photography and music
and song. Plus, 25 years on, how both archive study and new creative work
lead us into new insights and perspectives. The conference is organised into
four strands – Memory, Legacy, Media and Popular Culture, and Witness – to
help compare and contrast the personal and the objective study, the artefact
and the heritage industry, cultural memory and the creative.
For more information, and to register: Online registration
Or contact Dr. Eleri Pound at [log in to unmask] or on 0113 343
5805.
Organised at the University of Leeds by the Louis Le Prince Centre and the
Media Industries Research Centre at the Institute of Communications Studies;
with support from the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, the
School of Music, Leeds International Film Festival, Opera North, and the DARE
partnership.
Accommodation
We have negotiated reduced rates with Weetwood Hall hotel, quote Digging
the Seam when you book for the conference rate of £70 bed & breakfast.
Other hotel recommendations can be found on this page:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/visitors/where_to_stay.htm
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