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Dear Colleagues 

Please find attached details of a forthcoming day symposium on Class.   It 
should be of interest to anyone in the Humanities and Social Sciences for 
whom Class is a concept they use, teach, research, discuss or think about. 
Please also feel free to publicise the event to your students.  Apologies 
for the late notice.



Faculty of Arts and Society

SCHOOL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

CROSSING BORDERS: A ONE-DAY INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE CONSIDERING 

THE CONCEPT OF CLASS

Saturday, 9th February 2008

Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter Campus, Northern Terrace 
Building

Keynote Speakers 

· Professor Chas Critcher, Emeritus Professor in Communications and Media, 
Sheffield Hallam University: 'Class always tells in the end: Inequalities 
in contemporary Britain'

·  Dr Gary Day, Principal Lecturer in English, De Montfort 
University: 'No, we’re not all middle class now!' 

·  Professor Carolyn Steedman, Professor of History, University of 
Warwick: 'The Law, Poetry, and a Pair of Stays: How to cross some class 
boundaries'


Workshop/Seminar Sessions include 

·  Professor Alistair Black, Professor in Library and Information History, 
Leeds Metropolitan University, discussing histories of reading.

·  Dr Andrew Lawson, Senior Lecturer in English, Leeds Metropolitan 
University: ‘Reading Class/Class in Reading’ 

·  Dr Karen Sayer, Senior Lecturer in History, Leeds Trinity and All 
Saints: 'The Poor, The Peasant and The Labourer: Social Investigation in 
Nineteenth-Century England'

•  Professor John Walton, Institute for Northern Studies, Leeds 
Metropolitan University:'Class is not dead - just out of fashion'


Cost: £12 waged; £5 students & unwaged. 

To book, please contact Dr Ruth Robbins ([log in to unmask]) or 
visit: www.leedsmet.ac.uk/cs