[ecrea] Call for Papers - Raymond Williams and Robert Tressell in Hastings: celebrating 50 years of The Long Revolution and the centenary of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

*A Call for Papers*

* *

*Raymond Williams and Robert Tressell in Hastings: celebrating 50 years 
of /The Long Revolution/ and the centenary of /The Ragged Trousered 
Philanthropists/*

2011 marks the centenary of the death of Robert Tressell and it is 50 
years since the publication of Raymond Williams' /The Long Revolution/. 
The University of Brighton in Hastings is pleased to announce 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.

There will be two keynote speakers, Professor Stuart Laing, Deputy 
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton, author of 
/Representations of working class life /and one other to be announced 
shortly.

We are keen to invite submissions from researchers across the social 
sciences, literary and cultural studies and from practitioners and 
activists concerned with these issues.  We invite submissions that 
address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

· Williams, Tressell and the South East

· Culture and Society in the New Millennium

· Working Class Fictions

· Williams the Literary Critic

· Williams and Cultural Studies

· Class and Education

· The Great Money Trick in the age of austerity

· Socialism and the novel

Submissions may be in a variety of formats including posters, verbal 
presentations and workshops. Please send abstracts of 150 words to 
(s.j.chapman /at/ brighton.ac.uk) <mailto:(s.j.chapman /at/ brighton.ac.uk)> 
 including with your submission your presentation title and format, 
author names, institutional affiliations and email addresses and an 
indication of which of the above themes your presentation addresses.

*THE ABSTRACT DEADLINE IS FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2011.*