Archive for 2010

[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]

[ecrea] Selling Cultures Conference Programme 20 & 21 November 2010

Tue Nov 16 16:04:50 GMT 2010



Registration for the Selling Cultures conference, organised by the Association for Research in Popular Fictions and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, is now open. Please go to the ARPF website for further information, www.arpf.org.uk. Programme details outlined below.


Popular Fictions: Selling Cultures?

Sat 20 & Sun 21 November 2010

Liverpool John Moores University



Provisional conference programme



Saturday 20th November

9.00 - 10.00    Registration and coffee / tea

                        Introduction



10.00 - 11.00 Plenary One



11.00 - 11.15 Coffee break



11.15 - 12.45  Session 1

Panel A - Comic Cultures

 Punch v 'Funch'? Brand Rivalry, Parody and Pastiche

Therie Hendrey-Seabrook (University of Sussex)

 Marketing the Anti-New Man in Punch Magazine

Tara MacDonald (University of Amsterdam)

 Comic Almanacs and the Periodical Press 1830 - 1860

Brian Maidment (University of Salford)

Panel B - A Question of Value: Richard & Judy's Book Club

'A Good Authentic Read': exoticism in the postcolonial novels of the Richard & Judy Book Club'

Helen Cousins (Newman College)

The Roles of the Storytellers: Richard and Judy read The Jane Austen Book Club

Jenni Ramone (Newman College)

Suspicious Minds: Richard & Judy's Book Club and Its Resistant Readers

Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham)

Proclaiming pleasure and taste: Empirical Method and the Richard and Judy Book Club

Nickianne Moody (Liverpool John Moores University)



12.45 - 1.30    Lunch



1.30 - 3.00      Session 2

Panel A - Religious and Missionary Cultures

Sensational Sermonizing: Ellen Wood, Good Words and the Conversion of the Popular

Julie Bizzotto (Royal Holloway)

Describing the Indescribable: The Great Exhibition through Religious Periodicals

Geoffrey Cantor (University of Leeds and UCL)

Selling the Missionary Ideal: How the Missionary Press was Used in the 19th Century

Clive Jolliffe (University of Kent)

Panel B - Promoting Narratives as Products

Stevenson, Du Maurier, Collins and the Selling of Posthumous Literary Collaboration

Kirsty Bunting, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cheshire

Christmas Anthologies in Portugal

Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta, University of Birmingham

The Publishing Industry and the American Memoir Boom

Julie Rak, University of Alberta



3.00 - 4.00      Roundtable on publishing and research on popular fictions

Chair: Amber Regis



4.00 - 4.15      Coffee break



4.15 - 5.45      Session 3

Panel A - Leisure, Education and Consumption

'Typifying the ideal': Talbot Baines Reed, Character Formation and the Boy's Own Paper

Simon Machin (Roehampton University)

Consumption, Diffusion and Influence; or, the Consequences of Three Metaphors

Jude Piesse (University of Exeter)

Representations of the Past in the Leisure Hour: Selling History to the Working-Man

Doris Lechner (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg)

Panel B - Fiction and Publishing Cultures Between the Wars

'The Danger of the Expedition': Travel and Romance in E. M. Hull's The Sheik

Dr Lisa Regan, University of Hull

The 1930s: W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and popular fiction

Rebecca Gordon, University of Aberdeen

The Hogarth Press and the Middleman: The Impact of the Book Society in the 1930s

Dr Nicola Wilson, University of Reading



5.45 Delegates invited to gather for dinner at the Everyman Bistro, Hope Street



Sunday 21st November

9.30 - 11.00    Session 4

Panel A - Reading Women/Women Reading

The Serialization of Middle-Class Domestic Time

Maria Damkjaer (King's College)

 Charlotte Younge's 'Goosedom'

Georgina O'Brien Hill (University of Chester)

Puffing and Slating - The Debate over Anonymity versus Signature in Victorian Book Reviewing

Isabel Seidel (University of Aberdeen)

Panel B - Selling Film and TV to Twenty-First Century Audiences

"This Could be the Next Lost": FlashForward's bid on audience expectation

Enrica Picarelli, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Remaking Film, Remaking Meaning: Repackaging Horror Cinema for a Post-9/11 Audience

Sarah Wharton, University of Liverpool

The Wire: Detective McNulty and destabilising the white detective agency

Roshan Singh, Liverpool Hope University



11.00 - 11.15    Coffee break



11.15 - 12.45  Session 5

Panel 11 - Locating Cultural Identities

 Sherlock's Slums: The Periodical as an Environmental Form

Jonathan Cranfield (University of Kent)

 'Yankee Humour': Selling 'America' in the late-Victorian Joke Column

Bob Nicholson (University of Manchester)

Selling a Mechanized Culture: the Production of British Popular Cultural Perceptions of the Role of the Steam Railway as 'Civiliser' in India and Africa 1853 - 1901

Di Drummond (Trinity University College)

Panel 12 - Advertising, Product Placement and Participation

Selling Bond: A Cultural History of Product Placement and the James Bond Franchise

Tanya Nitins, Queensland University of Technology

Advertising and Social Identity: The Supernatural self in Printed Advertisements

Irene Petratou, Panteion University, Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece

Literary pretentions; Alice in Fan-tasy land

Pauline Archell-Thompson



12.45 - 1.30    Lunch



1.30 - 2.30      Plenary Two

Dr Jim Mussell (University of Birmingham)



2.30 - 2.45      Coffee Break



2.45 - 4.15      Session 6

Panel A - Identity Formation

 The Commodity of Writing: The Identity of Money in the Dickensian Periodical

Alfie Bown (University of Manchester)

Transatlantic, National and Regional Identities in the Antebellum South: the 'great British Reviews' and the Southern Rose (1835 - 1839)

Anna Luker Gilding (King's College London)

Panel B -Performance and Publics in Nineteenth-Century Culture

"My public shall be the reader, and my stage a book": Selling conjuring and conjuring selling in Victorian popular narratives

Chris Pittard, University of Portsmouth

'Perils and Adventures in Central Africa': The Magic Lantern and narratives of missionary life

Nickianne Moody, Liverpool John Moores University

South and North: a 'national' paper and regional distinctions

Mike Benbough- Jackson, Liverpool John Moores University



4.15 - 4.30      Closing discussion




Dr. Clare Horrocks
Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication
(LJMU Early Career Researcher Fellow 2010-2011)
Office 105B Dean Walters Building
Liverpool John Moores University
St James Road
Liverpool L1 7BR
Tel: 0151 231 5035


----------------
ECREA-Mailing list
----------------
This mailing list is a free service from ECREA.
---
To unsubscribe, please visit http://www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist
---
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Postal address:
ECREA
Université Libre de Bruxelles
c/o Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences
CP123, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, b-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
----------------

[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]