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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/index.html
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