[ecrea] Keeping it Real: Narratives of Ordinary and Extraordinary People Across Media

>Keeping it Real: Narratives of Ordinary and Extraordinary People Across Media
>
>Friday 3 September 2010
>
>The Executive Business Centre
>Bournemouth University
>89 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8EB
>
>The Narrative Research Group based in the Media School at 
>Bournemouth University is hosting an interdisciplinary one-day 
>symposium that will examine the representation of real people across 
>media.  Invited speakers include professionals, practitioners and 
>scholars working with stories about real people in 
>journalism,  literature,  visual media, online spaces and popular 
>culture. It is hoped that the symposium will provide a forum to 
>bring together  those interested in the intersections between 
>narrative theory and media/cultural studies. Please see the attached 
>draft programme for further details.
>
>This event is free to attend, and coffee and lunch will be provided 
>on the day.  However, as spaces are limited, you will need to 
>register in advance by contacting the convenors, Bronwen Thomas 
>((bthomas /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)) and Julia Round 
>((jround /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)) before Wednesday 25 August.
>
>DRAFT PROGRAMME - KEEPING IT REAL
>
>9.30 Registration, Coffee and Welcome
>
>10-11 Panel 1: Everyday/Extraordinary People Online
>Sue Thomas (De Montfort)  - Storying Cyberspace: metaphors of travel 
>and terrain online.
>Ruth Page (Leicester) Celebrity stories told on Twitter.
>
>11-12 Panel 2: Past and Present
>Hilary Dannenberg (Trier) Counter-Narratives of  Empire: the 
>Representation of Key Black Britons in Contemporary Television Texts.
>Roger Sabin (St Martins) Narrating 'real lives' in a Victorian 
>comic: Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday.
>
>12-1.30 Lunch. Exhibition of work by members of NRG and workshop 
>with Rosie Cullen.
>
>1.30 -2.30  Panel 3: Real People, Current Affairs
>Marina Lambrou (Kingston) Narrative accounts of 7/7 and 9/11.
>Darren Lilleker (Bournemouth) Wondrous Stories: political narrative 
>and political marketing.
>
>2.30-3.30 Television Representations of Real People
>Ben Highmore (Sussex) Come Dine With Me: Narrative, Time and Everyday Life.
>Patricia Holland (Bournemouth) Sick Children.
>
>3.30-1.45     Coffee
>
>3.45- 4.45  Transformative Narratives
>Chris Pullen (Bournemouth) The Transgendered Body and Documentary 
>Narratives: Resistance, Partnership and Domestic Screen Memories.
>Craig Batty (Bournemouth) When What You Want Is Not What You Need: 
>The Hero's Journey and Cinematic Narratives of Transformation.
>Peri Bradley (Southampton) The Good, the Bad and the Healthy: The 
>Transforming Body and Narratives of Health and Beauty in Reality TV.
>
>4.45     Closing Remarks
>
>5-5.30      Performance of Little Boy, by John Foster, Screenwriter 
>in Residence,  Bournemouth University.

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