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[ecrea] 'Adapting Historical Narratives' conference, 28 February 2012, De Montfort University, UK
Tue Jan 31 09:25:01 GMT 2012
ADAPTING HISTORICAL NARRATIVES CONFERENCE
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Centre for Adaptations/Faculty of Art, Design & Humanities
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
A friendly reminder about our Adapting Historical Narratives conference
which we are hosting at DMU,s Centre for Adaptations on 28 February.
The draft conference programme is now available. We have accepted more
than 35 papers from contributors across several continents, spanning a
diverse range of disciplinary perspectives on the conference theme ^
theoretical and practice-based, and from literary studies to new media.
Our opening plenary line-up includes:
. Professor Alun Munslow, UK editor of the journal Rethinking History,
whose many publications in the field include Narrative and History
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and The Future of History (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2010).
. Dr Sarah Gilligan, specialist on costume, gender and film and author
of the forthcoming monograph Fashion and Film: Gender, Stardom and Style
in Contemporary Cinema (Berg, 2013).
. Dr Claire Monk, DMU,s Reader in Film & Film Culture, longstanding
contributor to debates around the cultural politics of period films, and
author of the book Heritage Film Audiences: Period Films and
Contemporary Audiences in the UK (EUP, 2011).
Registration is still open at
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/humanities/adaptations/news-events-conferences/adapting-historical-narratives.js
but places are filling up fast; so if you would like to join us, please
don,t delay.
Best regards,
Dr Claire Monk, Reader in Film & Film Culture, DMU ((cmonk /at/ dmu.ac.uk))
Professor Deborah Cartmell, Director, Centre for Adaptation, DMU
((djc /at/ dmu.ac.uk))
Centre for Adaptations
Faculty of Art, Design & Humanities
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH
http://dmu.academia.edu/ClaireMonk
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/humanities/departments-staff/staff/deborah-cartmell.jsp
http://adaptation.uk.com/index.html
http://adaptation.oxfordjournals.org/
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