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Media and Cultural Studies Symposium 2007: Class The Media and Cultural Studies team at Nottingham Trent University are holding a one-day symposium on 'Class' on Friday 23rd February 2007. The event is free of charge but places are limited: if you would like to attend, please email [log in to unmask] to reserve a place. Please can you also liaise with Siobhan if you wish to reserve a parking space. Programme 10.15-10.30: refreshments and welcome 10.30-11.45: Class and Taste (Chair: Dave Woods) Elizabeth Silva (Open University), Cultural capital transmission: parents and partners within and across class cultures Ben Taylor (NTU), Creativity, Class and Cultural Studies 12.00-1.15 Class and Film (Chair: Gary Needham) Matt Kerry (NTU), 'I Shook Hands with Her': the caravan park and The Best Pair of Legs in the Business Martin O'Shaughnessy (NTU), Returning Only to Die?: the working class in recent French film 1.15-2.15 Lunch 2.15-3.30 Class and Domestic Cultures (Chair: Steve Jones) Joanne Hollows (NTU), No Place (to) Like Home: home-centredness and the pathologization of the lower middle class. Lisa Taylor (Leeds Metropolitan University), Lifestyling the Garden: media, practices, consumption 3.30 Finish Location: The event takes place on the Clifton Campus of Nottingham Trent University in the George Eliot (Clifton Main) building: room GEE090. Information about travelling to the Clifton campus, along with a map of the campus, can be found here: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/prospective_students/visiting_the_university/maps/i ndex.html This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice.