After a fallow year for meeting face to face, Academic Archers and the DumTeeDum podcast are joining fan forces and co-hosting a meet up in Birmingham in April 2023, a mash up of the two groups favourite formats and a chance again for fans of the BBC Radio 4’s The Archers to indulge their love of the programme with a weekend of non-stop Archers conversation.
Since the last Academic Archers conference in 2021, storylines have come at a pace, incomers have arrived in Ambridge and some of the most renowned villagers have said their goodbyes. With current storylines ranging across teenage pregnancy, the cost-of-living crisis, social and financial class divides and male mental health, Borsetshire is a fertile land for research and reflection.
The conference will take place on Saturday 22 April, with wrap around events the day before and after.
The Academic Archers and DumTeeDum teams are therefore seeking expressions of interest in the form of an up-to-250 word abstract/outline of idea in response to this Call for Papers:
• We welcome contributions on any issue surfaced by those living in Ambridge;
• We are also specifically seeking papers on the cost-of-living crisis and male mental health issues from academics and professionals from across these two issues, to form two panel discussions;
• Direct to tangential connections may be drawn between forms of expertise beyond the village and the minutiae of Ambridgology;
• We welcome all newcomers and those wanting to revisit past papers with updates;
• Paper formats are 15 minutes with 5 min Q+A, 30 minute keynote, or a 5 min ‘quick pitch’, a format that can lend itself to a topic overview, provocation, early stage thinking, or an update for example.
Media enthusiasm for our output is high and participating in Academic Archers offers an experience like no other to engage with the fandom and wider public.
For information on Academic Archers, to see past papers and conferences, please visit academicarchers.net. To tune in to DumTeeDum, please visit your preferred podcatcher.
To respond to this Call for Papers, please submit an up to 250-word abstract and 100-word biography to Helen Burrows via [log in to unmask] by 20 January. Responses will be communicated by mid-February at the latest. A book of conference papers (the sixth in the Academic Archers library) may follow in 2023-24.
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