[ecrea] Symposium at Nottingham Trent University: 8 Feb

Symposium at Nottingham Trent University: Friday 8 February 2013



Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference

Nottingham Trent University

Research Symposium



Media & Cultural Studies @ NTU: 21 years – the past, the present, the future

While Nottingham Trent University has a long been associated with media, 
cultural and communication studies (a Communication Studies degree was 
first established here in the early 1980s), the annual Media & Cultural 
Studies symposium this year marks the 21st birthday of the establishment 
of MCS as a Joint Honours subject in the institution. This was followed 
five years later (in 1996) by the setting up of a Media & Cultural 
Studies degree (now the BA in Media). Much has happened in the 
intervening years, both within the discipline, and within the higher 
education sector more broadly, both in the UK and beyond. The purpose of 
the symposium is to reflect on the changes, and continuities, within 
this period. What can we say about theoretical developments, pedagogical 
initiatives, new topics of enquiry and/or disappearing fields of study? 
The symposium will consider the history of Media & Cultural Studies, the 
contours of current debates and challenges, and the problems, issues and 
potentially new directions of the future.



Friday 8 February 2013 from 10.30-16.20

Location: Room 219, George Eliot Building, Nottingham Trent University, 
Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS



10.30-11.40: session 1

Ben Taylor (NTU): ‘Media studies, waste and sustainability’

Bob Jeffery (Sheffield Hallam University): ‘"They're all fucking top 
houses": belonging and hysteresis in a splintering city’



11.50-13.00: session 2

Georgia Stone (NTU): ‘Media practices at NTU: an illustrated retrospective’

Gary Needham (NTU): ‘Andy Warhol does Cultural Studies’



Lunch



13.50-15.00: session 3

Roger Bromley (University of Nottingham): 'Beginning Cultural Studies: 
Re-reading John Berger's A Seventh Man (1975)'

Alexander Dhoest (Antwerp University): 'Comparing notes: What the 
Flemish case can teach us about the strengths and weaknesses of British 
Media and Cultural Studies'



15.10-16.20: session 4

Donna Peberdy (Solent University): ‘A Dangerous Method? Provocative 
Performances of Perversion’

Estella Tincknell (University of the West of England): ‘Dowagers, Debs, 
Nuns and Babies: The Politics of Nostalgia in the British Sunday Night 
Television Drama Serial’





The symposium is open to all, but if you are interested in attending, 
please contact Ben Taylor (email: (ben.taylor /at/ ntu.ac.uk)).



http://inequalityculturedifferencentu.blogspot.com/



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