Media and Cultural Studies Symposium:
The Body
Friday 19th February, 10.00-3.30,
This year's annual Media and Cultural Studies Symposium at Nottingham Trent University takes place on Friday 19th February and centres around the theme of 'The Body'.
Alongside papers from staff in media and cultural studies, we are delighted to welcome two outside speakers, Ruth Holliday (Professor of Gender and Culture, University of Leeds) and Sharon Hayes (Senior Lecture, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology).
The event runs from 10.00-3.30 in GEE219, Clifton Campus (http://www.ntu.ac.uk/about_ntu/maps_travel/campus_maps/index.html). Attendance is free and everyone is welcome but places are strictly limited so please email [log in to unmask] to reserve a place if you wish to attend. Further details will appear soon here: http://culturalstudiesatntu.blogspot.com/
The Programme for the Event is as follows:
10.00-10.15: registration
10.15-10.30: welcome
10.30-11.45: session 1: the body, class and citizenship
Ruth Holliday, All Tits and Bum: Classing Feminist squeamishness at the 'plastic' body
Steve Jones, Cycling and Citizenship
11.45-12.00: break
12.00-1.15: session 2: the body, sound and music
Gary Needham, Donna Summer: disco and the embodiment of orgasm
Russell Murray, Body/Sound - Sound/Body
1.15-2.15: lunch break
2.15 - 3.30: session 3: 'deviant' bodies
Simon Cross, Mad Bodies: Seeing and Reading the Historical Image of Insanity
Sharon Hayes, The moral temporality of sex, taboo and the body
Best Wishes
Joanne
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