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
