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S P E C T R E S O F C L a S SPECTRES OF CLASS: REPRESENTING SOCIAL CLASS FROM THE FrENCH REVOLUTION TO THE PrESENT University of Chester, UK • 15 - 16 JUly 2011 CONFERENCE PrOGRAMME, ABSTRACTS, GENERAL INFORMATION SPECTRES OF CLASS: REPRESENTING SOCIAL CLASS FROM THE FrENCH REVOLUTION TO THE PrESENT 15 / 16 July 2011 English Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Chester Welcome to the Spectres of Class bonuses, royal weddings, and governments conference 2011 organised by members dominated by privileged elites on the one of the English Department at the hand, and mass redundancies, rising energy University of Chester. As you can see bills and in the worst case, catastrophic from the programme, we have two days famine on the other. of broad-ranging, thought-provoking, interdisciplinary talks to look forward to. Explaining the roots of these tensions is an Whilst many of us are experts in a diverse intellectual minefield and also an ideological range of academic fields – such as literary battleground. For instance, Professor Mike studies, linguistics, history, sociology, Savage, who heads up the BBC Great British media studies and social anthropology – Class Survey, points out that the labels what brings us together for this two-day ‘working’, ‘middle’ and ‘upper’ class which event is our shared interest in social class. first appeared in the 19th century as a way of classifying social differences stemming One of our original aims was to make a from Britain’s role in the industrial revolution, modest contribution to bringing social class may not be quite as simplistic today. - as a significant force in the ways human However, these categories are still deeply beings are divided by structural inequalities rooted in the discourse of how we categorise - back onto the academic agenda. both ourselves and others because social divisions have never gone away. So However, in a sense, events have overtaken undoubtedly, amongst the key questions us, with matters of class being a central up for debate at the conference will be the topic of debate in the public domain in relevance of class both as symptomatic of the recent period. It is no coincidence objective economic relations and as a badge that the BBC have chosen this year to call of identity. The Spectres of Class conference upon sociologists to help them conduct therefore provides a forum for exploring research into social class with their Great how class has been represented in language, British Class Survey, and that Owen Jones’ literature and other cultural formations recently published provocative book Chavs: since the French Revolution, and seeks to The Demonization of the Working Class understand the historical basis of class has caused a stir in the national UK press. identities and their manifestations today. With global recession and natural disaster Your contribution to this debate is deeply dominating the news media, the divisions appreciated. We know that some of you have between those with and without economic, travelled a considerable distance and we social and cultural capital are becoming thank you for participating in this event either ever starker. We’ve stories of bankers’ as a speaker or a visitor. 3 Our thanks go also to: the University of undergraduate student volunteers – Hannah Chester’s Research and Knowledge Transfer Parcell and Tom Jackson – who have taken Accommodation Office, especially Dr Mark Helsdon, for their time out of their summer holiday to help the advice and financial support towards research conference run smoothly; Prof Chris Walsh, Delegates staying overnight on campus will be located in John Milton Hall (no.33 for one of the papers being delivered at the Head of English for his moral support; Prof on the campus map). Please ensure you vacate your bedroom by 9.30am and hand conference; Graphic Designer Gary Martin Rob Warner, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities your key to Matt Davies or Deborah Wynne (conference organisers) or one of the for crafting and constantly updating the eye- for opening the conference and Jen, Karen student volunteers. For those leaving Sunday morning, could you please leave catching posters and leaflets; Sarah Steele in and Lucy in the English Department office for your key at the Porters’ Lodge by the main Exton Park entrance. Marketing and Gemma Sproston in Corporate their administrative support. Communications for helping to promote Breakfast for delegates staying on campus is served between 7.45 – 9.00 in White’s the conference; staff in the university’s And finally thanks to you all for attending Dining Room. This is included in the registration fee. Conference Office; English post-graduate the conference. We hope your stay at the students Ali Hutchinson and Anna Mackenzie University of Chester is a pleasant one. Computers and Internet Access for their enthusiastic input in the lead-up to the conference; all those who have agreed Dr Matt Davies and Professor Deborah Delegates will have access to the open-access computer laboratory on the ground to chair sessions; our English Language Wynne (conference organisers) floor of theBinks Building, opposite the lift doors. To log in you need to use the following details which will enable you to use all the GENERAL INFORMATION computer facilities, including internet: Venue Username: conf14 Password: eng2011 All conference sessions will take place in the Beswick Building situated in the centre of the Chester Campus (no.10 on the campus map). The plenary talks will Transport take place in CBE013 (small lecture theatre). The parallel sessions will be held in CBE013 and CBE001. The registration desk will be in the main foyer of the Beswick The main Chester rail station is a 15-20 minute walk from the main campus. Building and staffed from 1400 - 1700 Thursday, 08.45 – 18.30 on Friday and 08.45 Delegates requiring taxis can call either King Cabs on (01244) 343434 or Radio –17.30 on Saturday. There will be a secure room (CBE017) to leave luggage and Taxis on (01244) 372372. Ask to be picked up from outside the Binks Building or, other valuables. alternatively, at the main entrance to the University of Chester, the ‘Exton Park entrance/Porters’ Lodge’. Food and Refreshments Please note that all food and refreshments are included in the registration fee. Morning and afternoon refreshments will be available in CBE001/3+4. The Friday lunch is a buffet which is also in CBE001/3+4. The Friday evening dinner and the Saturday lunch will be in White’s Dining Hall (turn left out of Beswick and walk a few yards). A bar will be available for Friday evening drinkers in the Students’ Union Bar behind White’s Dining Hall. Delegates wishing to purchase refreshments outside of the scheduled break times can make use of Binks Brasserie (open 9am – 5pm), just inside the Binks Building main entrance (turn right out of Beswick and walk a few metres). 4 5 SPECTRES OF CLAss John Gray Paul Vlitos University of East London, UK University of Surrey, UK CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Celebrity, social class and the ‘There’s a-goin’ to be a Feast’: (Beswick Building, Chester Campus) neoliberal imperative – the case of Dining and Social Difference in the ELT textbooks. Novels of George Gissing. Friday 15th July Duncan Stone, Elizabeth Negus University of Huddersfield, UK Barking and Dagenham College, UK 8.45am Registration open (Beswick foyer) Regional Cricket Identities: The Dickens and Medicine: Health construction of class narratives and Inequalities are Merely a Reflection 9.45 – 10.00 Rob Warner, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (CBE013) their relationship to contemporary of Wealth and Income Inequalities. Introduction and welcome supporters. 10.00 -11.00 Professor Paul Kerswill (University of Lancaster, UK) (CBE013) Joe Stroud Maryam Beyad Language, social class and identity University of Edinburgh, UK University of Tehran, Iran Chair: Matt Davies When does Folk become Fascist? Far from the Madding Crowd 11.00- 11.30 Refreshments (CBE001/3+4) The class-bound discourse of folk music. 11.30 –1.00 CLASS, IDENTITY AND REGION GENDER AND CLASS (CBE001/3+4) (CBE013) 4.00 – 4.30 Refreshments (CBE001/3+4) Chair: Brian Walker Chair: Alex Tankard 4.30 – 5.30 CLASS AND HEGEMONY IN THE CLASS AND VISUALITY IN THE Hugh Escott, Shannon O’Hara MEDIA NINETEENTH CENTURY University of Sheffield, UK University of St Andrews, UK (CBE001/3+4) (CBE013) Dialect and Class in the Picket-Line A Question of Class: Representing Chair: Matt Davies Chair: Deborah Wynne Poetry of Tom Hague / Totley Tom’ Rapists in Contemporary Literature. Roberto Lestinge & Sandra Lestinge Vera Prescott Thomas Kew Emily Dickinson University of Sao Paolo, Brazil University of Lisbon, Portugal University of Nottingham, UK Loughborough University, UK Sugarcane, ethanol and Lovely, wretched peasants: ‘What About Di Workin Claas”: Representation of class and landowners in Brazil: A Critical Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral Images Performing Class in Linton Kwesi violence in Dorothy Allison’s Discourse Analysis of class, in Nineteenth-Century Naturalist Johnson’s Brixton. Bastard Out of Carolina. ideology and power hegemony. Literature and Visual Arts. Michael Pace-Sigge Martyn Colebrook, M.S. Abdullahi-Idiagbon, Emma Newey University of Liverpool, UK University of Hull, UK University of Ilorin, Nigeria University of Chester, UK The Liverpool Speaker as an Power, Pornography, Class and Ideology in Nigerian ‘Constructing Class Through example to connect socio-economic Fragmentation and Disintegration: Political Campaigns - A Critical Fabric: The Social Life of the concepts to the
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