[ecrea] CFP: Raymond Williams Now

Members of the list might be interested the below CFP, for a conference 
on Raymond Williams to be held in Manchester this May, the deadline for 
which is approaching.


RAYMOND WILLIAMS NOW
 30 May 2015

Recent years have witnessed major critical reappraisals of British 
Cultural Studies and its key figures. This one-day conference, organised 
by the Greater Manchester-based Radical Studies Network, continues that 
process through assessment of Raymond Williams’ work and legacy.

The event will feature a keynote lecture by Professor Tony Crowley on 
‘Keywords, Then and Now’. Artist Ruth Beale will present a film of her 
30-minute performance, ‘Performing Keywords’, first performed at the 
Turner Contemporary, 2013. The day will conclude with a round-table 
discussion on Raymond Williams and the contemporary Left.

We also invite proposals for 20-minute presentations or panels of 3–4 
presentations from academics, activists, and creative practitioners. 
Topics might include, but aren’t restricted to:

contemporary ‘structures of feeling’; adult education past and present; 
ecology; cultural materialism now; feminism; media, technology, and 
cultural form; politics and letters; Williams and Wales; the May Day 
Manifesto; post-colonial and global Williams; science fiction; the 
public intellectual; Williams and the politics of criticism; Williams as 
novelist and playwright; creative practices; cultural institutions; 
‘old’ and ‘new’ lefts.

Abstracts of 250 words (1000 words for panels) should be submitted to 
(ben.harker /at/ manchester.ac.uk) by 1 March 2015.

The conference will be held at the Friends’ Meeting House in central 
Manchester on Saturday 30 May 2015. Registration costs will be kept to a 
minimum thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Raymond Williams 
Society and the Raymond Williams Foundation. See 
https://radicalstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com/ for further information and 
a poster.

Please feel free to forward anyone who may be interested.

Many thanks,


Dr Elinor Taylor
School of Arts & Media,
University of Salford,
Salford,
M3 6EQ
(e.m.taylor /at/ salford.ac.uk)
www.radicalstudiesnetwork.wordpress.com




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