You are warmly invited to attend the postgraduate and early career
symposium */Holding Things in Common: the vernacular, everyday objects
and memory /at Birkbeck Cinema, Monday 12th May.*
The day consists of three panels composed of a wide range of promising
papers (see schedule below). Each panel is followed by Q&A.
Writer and broadcaster Dr Matthew Sweet will give the keynote address,
"God save Mrs Mop and good old Mother Riley": ITMA, the Kinks and the
English Speaking Vernacular.
To book your free place and for all the details, please go to
http://goo.gl/lC4I52.
Registration is from 8.45 am, the event begins sharp at 9.20 am, ending
at 5 pm. A drinks reception follows the formal close.
Full schedule:
8.45am: Registration, Tea & Coffee
9.20am: Introduction
9.30am: Panel 1: Heirlooms, Loss and Literary Objects
Aimee Gasston, Short things: lively objects in the stories of Katherine
Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Tom Hendry, Myth, Legend and Dust: Cormac McCarthy and the loss of the
vernacular
Elisa Jochum, Women's Heirlooms in Cinema: Materiality, Memory and
"Herstory"
11am: Break
11.15am: Panel 2: Cultural Memory, Cultural Production
Christopher Gonzalez-Crane, Deliberate Culture: Los Angeles, Charles
Lummis and 'The Land of Sunshine'
Sonya Chenery, The role of vernacular and everyday objects and practices
in arts-based cultural and social remembrance
12.45pm: Lunch
2pm: Panel 3: Lightbulbs, Allotments and Digital Grammatisation
Grace Halden, Light Bulbs: Theories and Conspiracies and Representation
Dr Katrin Schreiter, Cultivating the Past: Allotment Gardens and Memory
in East and West Germany
Dr Daniel Strutt, Digital Grammatisation: The Affective Synthesis of
Reality by Digital Screen Media
3.30pm: Tea & Coffee
3.50pm: Keynote Address
Dr Matthew Sweet, "God save Mrs Mop and good old Mother Riley": ITMA,
the Kinks and the English Speaking Vernacular
5pm: Close followed by Drinks Reception
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Richard Evans
MPhil/PhD student in Film Studies
Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies
Birkbeck, University of London
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