[ecrea] Call for Papers - Raymond Williams, John Logie Baird: Television, Technology and Cultural Form

Call for Papers - Raymond Williams, John Logie Baird:  Television, 
Technology and Cultural Form



Conference 18 & 19 September 2013 - University of Brighton in Hastings



The University of Brighton in Hastings, supported by the Raymond 
Williams Society, is pleased to announce a two day conference in 
Hastings on 18th-19th September 2013 to celebrate Williams' 
contributions to media and cultural studies and to our understanding of 
television as cultural form and practice, and John Logie Baird's 
innovations in technology and broadcasting.  The conference takes its 
title from Raymond Williams' 1974 book, Television, Technology and 
Cultural Form. This conference will address both men's relationship to 
Hastings, the town in which both spent a key part of their working 
lives. Williams worked in Hastings, as an adult education tutor, while 
John Logie Baird's early experiments in television technology took place 
in Hastings.  It was in Hastings that he built the world's first working 
television set and the first television pictures were transmitted from 
his workshop on Queen's Parade in 1924. This conference builds on the 
successful conference held at the University of Brighton's campus in 
Hastings in 2011 which celebrated Raymond Williams and Robert Tressell, 
50 years of The Long Revolution and the centenary of The Ragged 
Trousered Philanthropists.

The 2013 conference again seeks to create a multi-disciplinary forum in 
which academics, researchers, television practitioners, trade unionists 
and local historians can explore the impact and legacy of Williams and 
Logie Baird on contemporary research and practice in the field of 
television.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

·         Professor Stuart Laing - Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the 
University of Brighton, and author of Representations of working class life

·         Iain Logie Baird - Associate Curator at the National Media 
Museum in Bradford, and the grandson of John Logie Baird.  He has 
written and presented papers on television and radio history, and on 
media ecology.  He is a member of the Royal Society of Television 
Heritage Group and the RTS Yorkshire Centre Committees.

·         Mike Dibb - award-winning filmmaker, his work includes the 
ground breaking television series Ways of Seeing and he is the director 
of The Country and the City (Where we live now 60), with Raymond Williams

·         Rosalind Brunt - Research Fellow in Media Studies at Sheffield 
Hallam University. She was the first chair of the Women's Media Studies 
Network and is currently a committee member of the Network.   She is an 
editor of Postcolonial media culture in Britain, and of Feminism, 
culture and politics.

·         Jean Seaton - Professor of Media History at the University of 
Westminster and the official historian of the BBC.  Her work includes 
Carnage and the Media, Power without Responsibility, with James Curran, 
and she edited, with Ben Pimlott, The Media in British Politics.  She is 
an editor of Political Quarterly and the Director of the Orwell Prize.

·         Trevor Griffiths - renowned playwright, whose work for the 
stage includes the plays The Country, Comedians, and A New World:  A 
Life of Thomas Paine, for film, the screenplays for Reds and Fatherland 
(director, Ken Loach);  his television work includes All Good Men and 
the socialist serial drama Bill Brand:-

in conversation with

Jack Shepherd - writer, director, actor, who has acted on stage and in 
television in plays by writers who include David Storey, John Arden and 
Trevor Griffiths; he played the title role in Bill Brand.  His own plays 
include In Lambeth and Holding Fire!



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:

    * Ownership and control
    * The future of national televisions
    * The role of the BBC
    * Television, lifestyle and consumption
    * New technologies and new patterns of viewing
    * Forms of television drama
    * The politics of television and politics on television
    * Television and the public sphere
    * Television in an age of austerity

Submissions may be in a variety of formats including posters, verbal 
presentations and workshops.

Please send abstracts of 150 words to Mina Wareham 
(m.wareham /at/ brighton.ac.uk) including with your submission your 
presentation title and format, author names, institutional affiliations, 
email address and a contact phone number.

THE ABSTRACT DEADLINE IS MONDAY 10th JUNE 2013
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