Please find below an invitation to our conference to be held at the
University of Brighton - Hastings campus on Tuesday 20 September 2011.
Please be kind enough to forward this invitation to anyone else you
think would be interested in the conference.
Raymond Williams and Robert Tressell in Hastings:
Celebrating 50 years of The Long Revolution and the centenary of The
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Tuesday 20 September 2011
University of Brighton in Hastings
2011 marks the centenary of the death of Robert Tressell and 50 years
since the publication of Raymond Williams’ The Long Revolution. The
University of Brighton in Hastings is pleased to invite you to a one-day
conference on Tuesday 20 September 2011 to celebrate the contribution of
Williams and Tressell to literary and cultural studies, communications
and social and political theory. The conference will also address their
relationship to Hastings, a town in which both spent a key part of their
working lives.
The conference seeks to create a multi-disciplinary forum in which
academics, researchers, trade unionists and local historians can explore
the impact and legacy of the two men on contemporary research, practice
and activists.
The day will run from 9.30am (registration) to 5pm. Please see our
website for programme details Williams Tressell Conference details
Three keynote speakers will address the conference:
* Professor Stuart Laing, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Brighton, author of Representations of working class life
* Howard Brenton, whose stage adaptation of The Ragged-Trousered
Philanthropists has been performed at Liverpool Everyman and Chichester
Festival Theatre
* Professor Ian Haywood, University of Roehampton, author of
Working-class Fiction: From Chartism to ‘Trainspotting’
There will be two parallel sessions where papers will be presented.
Conference fees are £30 per delegate, covering all refreshments for the
day including breaks, lunch, and networking reception. To book, please
call08456 020607, or email [log in to unmask] to reserve a
place and notify us of a time when we can telephone you to take your
booking. Please have your credit/debit card details to hand and advise
us of any special dietary requirements when making your booking.
I hope that you and/or some of your colleagues will be able to join us.
The University of Brighton in Hastings
is grateful for support for this conference from the Raymond Williams
Society.
Kind Regards
Sarah Chapman
Conference Administrator
University of Brighton - Hastings campus
Direct line: 01273 64 4656
www.brighton.ac.uk/hastings
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