Dr Cara Courage, University of Virginia, and Dr Nicola Headlam, University of Oxford, with Prof Carenza Lewis, University of Lincoln, invite the submission of abstracts to a seminar on the subject of BBC Radio 4’s The Archers.
The second Academic Archers seminar will feature a strand on the Helen and Rob storyline alongside papers from any and all other aspects of life in Ambridge and Borsetshire.
Submissions are invited from any academic discipline and of the following formats:
• Keynote (45 minutes, incl. Q+A)
• Paper (15 minutes with 5 minute Q+A)
• Quick pitches (5 minutes)
Papers might include but are by no means limited to:
• Clicktivism and crowd-sourcing philanthropy
• Archers tribes – ethnographic accounts of a fandom differentiated by online activity
• The housing crisis in South Borsetshire
• Route B as “local democracy as usual”
• Are all educated older women permanently stoned?
• Rural and village economics, from the village store to agribusiness
• Divisions of labour on a family farm
• The implications of coercive control for the legal and penal system
This list is not meant to be exclusive or exhaustive, but is meant to inspire you to think how your academic research, sector professional expertise or listener forensic knowledge of The Archers can illuminate and explain life in Ambridge and Borsetshire. The day is intended to give fans of The Archers a platform to exercise their love of the programme and their subject area.
The seminar will take place at University of Lincoln, 17th to 19th February 2017 and will include a field trip.
If you are a fellow Archers fan and/or academic please submit your abstract of 200 words to [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by 1st November, indicating the type of presentation you are intending. Programming will be determined by an Academic Archers panel and will be communicated by mid-November.
Further information on Academic Archers can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AcademicArchers/.
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