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You are warmly invited to attend the postgraduate and early career symposium */Holding Things in Common: the vernacular, everyday objects and memory /at Birkbeck Cinema, Monday 12th May.* The day consists of three panels composed of a wide range of promising papers (see schedule below). Each panel is followed by Q&A. Writer and broadcaster Dr Matthew Sweet will give the keynote address, "God save Mrs Mop and good old Mother Riley": ITMA, the Kinks and the English Speaking Vernacular. To book your free place and for all the details, please go to http://goo.gl/lC4I52. Registration is from 8.45 am, the event begins sharp at 9.20 am, ending at 5 pm. A drinks reception follows the formal close. Full schedule: 8.45am: Registration, Tea & Coffee 9.20am: Introduction 9.30am: Panel 1: Heirlooms, Loss and Literary Objects Aimee Gasston, Short things: lively objects in the stories of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf Tom Hendry, Myth, Legend and Dust: Cormac McCarthy and the loss of the vernacular Elisa Jochum, Women's Heirlooms in Cinema: Materiality, Memory and "Herstory" 11am: Break 11.15am: Panel 2: Cultural Memory, Cultural Production Christopher Gonzalez-Crane, Deliberate Culture: Los Angeles, Charles Lummis and 'The Land of Sunshine' Sonya Chenery, The role of vernacular and everyday objects and practices in arts-based cultural and social remembrance 12.45pm: Lunch 2pm: Panel 3: Lightbulbs, Allotments and Digital Grammatisation Grace Halden, Light Bulbs: Theories and Conspiracies and Representation Dr Katrin Schreiter, Cultivating the Past: Allotment Gardens and Memory in East and West Germany Dr Daniel Strutt, Digital Grammatisation: The Affective Synthesis of Reality by Digital Screen Media 3.30pm: Tea & Coffee 3.50pm: Keynote Address Dr Matthew Sweet, "God save Mrs Mop and good old Mother Riley": ITMA, the Kinks and the English Speaking Vernacular 5pm: Close followed by Drinks Reception -- Richard Evans MPhil/PhD student in Film Studies Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies Birkbeck, University of London e: [log in to unmask] twitter: @revans2