[ecrea] Raymond Williams and Robert Tressell conference in Hastings

Please find below an invitation to our conference to be held at the 
University of Brighton - Hastings campus on Tuesday 20 September 2011.  
Please be kind enough to forward this invitation to anyone else you 
think would be interested in the conference.

*Raymond Williams and Robert Tressell in Hastings:*

*Celebrating 50 years of The Long Revolution and the centenary of The 
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists *

Tuesday 20 September 2011

University of Brighton in Hastings

2011 marks the centenary of the death of Robert Tressell and 50 years 
since the publication of Raymond Williams' The Long Revolution. The 
University of Brighton in Hastings is pleased to invite you to a one-day 
conference on Tuesday 20 September 2011 to celebrate the contribution of 
Williams and Tressell to literary and cultural studies, communications 
and social and political theory. The conference will also address their 
relationship to Hastings, a town in which both spent a key part of their 
working lives.

The conference seeks to create a multi-disciplinary forum in which 
academics, researchers, trade unionists and local historians can explore 
the impact and legacy of the two men on contemporary research, practice 
and activists.

The day will run from 9.30am (registration) to 5pm. Please see our 
website for programme details Williams Tressell Conference details 
<http://www.brighton.ac.uk/hastings/university-of-brighton-in-hastings-research/conferences/williams-tressell-conference> 


Three keynote speakers will address the conference:

*   Professor Stuart Laing, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of 
Brighton, author of Representations of working class life

*   Howard Brenton, whose stage adaptation of The Ragged-Trousered 
Philanthropists has been performed at Liverpool Everyman and Chichester 
Festival Theatre

*   Professor Ian Haywood, University of Roehampton, author of 
Working-class Fiction: From Chartism to 'Trainspotting'

There will be two parallel sessions where papers will be presented.

Conference fees are £30 per delegate, covering all refreshments for the 
day including breaks, lunch, and networking reception. To book, please 
call *08456 020607*, or email (hastingsinfo /at/ brighton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(hastingsinfo /at/ brighton.ac.uk)> to reserve a place and notify us of 
a time when we can telephone you to take your booking. Please have your 
credit/debit card details to hand and advise us of any special dietary 
requirements when making your booking.

I hope that you and/or some of your colleagues will be able to join us.


Kind Regards

Sarah Chapman

Conference Administrator

University of Brighton - Hastings campus

Direct line: 01273 64 4656

www.brighton.ac.uk/hastings