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[ecrea] The Big Reveal II: Lifestyle TV Conference at the University of Brighton

Mon May 11 21:01:44 GMT 2009



THE BIG REVEAL II - LIFESTYLE TV CONFERENCE
A two day conference - Friday 29th and Saturday 30th May 2009
Falmer Campus, University of Brighton

Keynote Speakers include:
Gareth Palmer - University of Salford, UK
Su Holmes - University of East Anglia, UK
Peter Lunt - Brunel University, UK
Anita Biressi - Roehampton University, UK
Heather Nunn - Roehampton University, UK



Conference fee:

2 day attendance (includes refreshments, wine reception on Friday 29 May, Lunch on Saturday 30 May)



Full rate                              £100

Student rate                        £50



1 day attendance - Friday 29 May (includes refreshments and wine reception)

 Full rate                              £40

 Student fee                        £20

 1 day attendance - Saturday 30 May (includes refreshments and lunch)



 Full rate                              £60

 Student fee                        £30

For those interested, please fill in the booking form available on the conference website <https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/bigreveal2/>http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/bigreveal2/ and submit the booking form by 23 May to <mailto:(cmisresearchadmin /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>(cmisresearchadmin /at/ brighton.ac.uk)

Please also email Irmi Karl <mailto:(I.Karl /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>(I.Karl /at/ brighton.ac.uk) or Julie Doyle <mailto:(j.doyle /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>(j.doyle /at/ brighton.ac.uk) to confirm attendance.

Conference programme, booking form and information on accommodation
and conference location are all available on the conference website <https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/bigreveal2/>http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/bigreveal2/

Draft conference programme is also included below:


Draft Conference Programme



Friday 29th May



12.0 Registration and Refreshments Westlain House 113



1.00 Welcome address/ Keynote Address Mayfield 126


(Performance Studio)



?Lifestyle Media and Calibration? ? Gareth Palmer, University of Salford, UK



2.00     Panel 1-  Family, Gender and Nation

Chair -  Deborah Philips



·         ?Extreme Makeover Home Edition: Producing Extreme Homes,

      Reproducing Ideal Citizens?

Bree Kessler, City University of New York Graduate Center, USA



·         ?Home makeover shows as stages of improved ordinariness?

Anne Soronen, University of Helsinki, Finland



· ?Two Point Four Children ? ?Parenting programmes? as the guardians of traditional family values?

Janice Kearns, University of Lincoln, UK





3.30 Refreshments Westlain House 113



3.45 Panel 2 - Health, Food and Nation Mayfield 126

Chair ? Julie Doyle (Performance Studio)



·         ?Mediated health in Danish public service television?

Christa Lykke Christensen, Copenhagen University, Denmark



· ?Governance and social welfare as entertainment. Teaching the neoliberal citizen to be self-sufficient as well as self-governing in Supersize vs. Superskinny?

Tobias Raun, Aarhus University, Denmark



· ?Please Sir Can I do some More? Jamie Oliver and the engineering of a national lifestyle?

Helen Powell & Sylvie Prasad, University of East London, UK





5.45 Finish and drinks reception Westlain House 113



Saturday 30th May





9.30 Keynote - Mayfield House 129

            Su Holmes, University of East Anglia, UK



10.15 Refreshments Mayfield House 102



10.30 Panel 3 ? Work, Ethics and the Past Mayfield House 129

Chair ? Deborah Philips



· ?Selling an Entrepreneurial Lifestyle: The Television Worker Onscreen and Off?

Lisa W. Kelly and Raymond Boyle, University of Glasgow, UK



·         ?Fame can be bad for you: who looks after ?ordinary? contributors

before, during and after taking part in lifestyle television programmes??

Lesley Blaker, University of Salford, UK



· ?Remembering Ourselves, Viewing the Others: Participant audiences of historical reality TV? Ruth McElroy & Rebecca Williams, University of Glamorgan, UK

· ?Digging for victory: Sustainability, lifestyle TV, and the use of the past?

Rebecca Bramall, University of Brighton and Sarah Baker, University of East London, UK



12.30 Lunch Mayfield House 102



1.15 Keynote - Mayfield House 129

            Peter Lunt, Brunel University, UK



2.00     Panel 4 ? Sexuality, Normativity and Pleasure

            Chair ? Irmi Karl



· ?C?mon Girlfriend?: Suspended sexuality, friendship and how they can make you look good naked?

Orly Klein, Jayne Raisborough and Hannah Frith, University of Brighton, UK



·         ?Disdain, Disgust and Guilty Pleasure: Reading Trinny & Susannah

Feona Attwood, Sheffield Hallam University and Samantha Holland, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK



· ?The Queer Images of Lifestyle Television ? Case Studies in the Production of Heteronormativity and Homonormativity on RTV?

Jan Pinseler, Institute of Communications and Media Culture, Luneburg, Germany



3.30 Refreshments Mayfield House 102



3.45 Panel 5 ? Travel and the West Mayfield House 129

Chair ? Julie Doyle



· ?A Landscape with Food: Travel, Taste(s) and Terroir with Rick Stein?

David Dunn, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK



· ?Imagining and Promoting Western(ized) Ways of Life: Lifestyle Programming in Women?s TV in Korea?

Young Chan Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea



·         ?Travel Series as TV Entertainment?

Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University, Denmark





5.15          Roundtable discussion ? Future Directions of Lifestyle TV?



Discussants - Anita Biressi; Heather Nunn; Gareth Palmer; Deborah Philips





6.15     Finish















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