Date: 15/11/99 17:35
RE: Conference - change of date
One-day conference: Cultural Studies and the Working Class Reconsidered
Venue: The Docklands Campus, University of East London
Revised Date: January 29th 2000 ( NOT 4th December 1999 as previously
advertised).
Speakers: Sally Munt, Andy Medhurst & Beverley Skeggs
Papers are invited on the following topics:
The aesthetics/ rhetoric of class
Autobiography and classed subjectivities
Class & resistance/shame
Humour & the carnivalesque
Cinema & class- representation & consumption
Working class masculinities/femininities
Reconceptualising class through postmodernism/ postcolonialism
Class as a historical and geographical variable
Class(ic) texts revisited
Class wars- the politics of activism
The list above is not exclusive and we welcome additional suggestions.
Proposals (500 words max.) for presentations should be sent to:
Sandy Brewer, Dept. of Cultural Studies, University of East London,
Docklands Campus, 4 University Way, London E16 2RD
or email: [log in to unmask] no later than 18th December 1999.
Further details regarding registration etc. are available from the above
address.
Please note that those people who have already submitted proposals will be
contacted directly.
All those who have submitted abstracts for presentations will be
contacted, meanwhile the revised deadline for the receipt of
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