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
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