ONE DAY CONFERENCE
CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE WORKING CLASS RECONSIDERED
4th DECEMBER 1999 at the University of East London
Keynote speaker to be confirmed
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
In the early, formative years of Cultural Studies, social class was the
founding principle for examining the primary concerns of the emerging
discipline.
But with the advent of feminism, postmodernism, postcolonialism and
latterly queer theory, class became the least examined and the most
elusive
of the social determinants race/class/gender/sexuality. This conference
provides an opportunity to consider how we might apply our skills to
questions of class but with the benefit of contemporary theory and thus to
recognise that thinking about class has not gone away.
We invite papers on the following topics (this is not exclusive):
The aesthetics/ rhetoric of class
Working class academics
Class and resistance
Class and shame
Humour and the carnivalesque
Cinema and class
Reconceptualising class
Working class masculinities
Class as a historical and geographical variable
Proposals (500 words maximum) to be received no later than 1st November
should be sent to:
Sandy Brewer
Department of Cultural Studies
University of East London
Docklands Campus
4 University Way
London E16 2RD
or email me on:
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Further details will be circulated in two weeks time, meanwhile if you
have
any queries contact me at the address above.
Alan.
Alan O'Shea
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