‘THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND POPULAR CULTURE’
March 31st- April 2nd 2006
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Programme
Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Friday, 31st March 2006
10:30 Registration Opens (Percy Foyer)
12:30-1:30 Registration and Buffet Lunch (Percy Foyer)
1:30-3:00 Session
I
A) Social Control
(Percy G5)
Chair: Lucy Noakes
B) Children’s
Fiction I (Percy G9)
Chair: Arthur Young
C) Literary
Responses (Percy G11)
Chair: Sarah Gamble
D) Theatre
(Percy Seminar Room 1)
C hair: Mark Whalan
3:00-3:30 Tea/Coffee
3:30-5:00 SESSION II
A) Dystopia (Percy
G5
Chair: Paul Crosthwaite
B) Wimsey at War
(Percy G9)
Chair: Jessica Meyer
C) Women
War Workers (Percy G11)
Chair: Jane Potter
D) Memorials
(Percy Seminar Room 1)
Chair:Andrew Frayn
5.00-6:30 SESSION III
A) American
Popular Imagination (Percy G5)
Chair: Jennifer D. Keene
B) Material
Culture (Percy G5)
Chair: Stephen Badsey
C)Gender,
Sexuality and Faking It (Percy G11)
Chair: Jean Walton
D) Beyond
the Western Front I (Percy
Seminar Room 1)
Chair: Krisztina Robert
7.00 Wine Reception and Buffet Dinner for all Delegates in the Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
Saturday, 1st April 2006
9.00-10.30 SESSION IV
A)
Contemporary Fictions (Percy G5)
Chair:Sian Harris
B)
Children and Fiction II (Percy G9)
Chair: Vanda Wilcox
C)
Reading War Posters (Percy G11)
Chair:Jason Lieblang
A)
Landscape(Percy Seminar Room 1)
Chair:Ariela Freedman
10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.00-12.30 SESSION V
A) Visual
Cultures (Percy G5)
Chair: Andrew Shail
B) Femininities
(Percy G9)
Chair: Melanie Waters
B) Beyond
the Western Front II (Percy G11)
Chair:Esther MacCallum-Stewart
D)
Propaganda (Percy Seminar Room 1)
Chair:Michael Roper
12.30-1.30 Buffet Lunch
1.30-2.30 Keynote Address (Bedson
Lecture Theatre 1)
Chair: Stacy Gillis
Trudi Tate, University of Cambridge, UK
“After the Armistice”
2.30-4.00 SESSION VI
A)
Disability (Percy G5)
Chair: Wendy Gagen
C) Antipodean
Cultures (Percy G9)
Chair: Jenny Macleod
D) Inter-war
Popular Fiction (Percy G11)
Chair: Stacy Gillis
4.00-4.30 Tea/Coffee
4.30-5.30 Keynote Address (Bedson
Lecture Theatre 1)
Chair: Laura Salisbury
Angela Smith, University of Plymouth, UK
“Mabel St Clair Stobart, the First World War and Faith”
7.00 Conference Dinner at Secco's (Only for Delegates who have Pre-Booked)
Sunday, 2nd April 2006
9.00-10.30 SESSION VII
A) Reconstructing
War (Percy G5)
Chair: Dan Todman
B)
Tourism and Museology (Percy G9)
Chair: K.J. Gilchrist
C)
Masculinities (Percy G11)
Chair: Pearl James
10.30-11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.00-12.30 SESSION VIII
A) War on Film
(Percy G5)
Chair: Peter Hutchings
B) Memory
(Percy G9)
Chair: Myrl Coulter
C) Comics
and Graphic Novels (Percy G11)
Chair: Cynthia Wachtell
D) Veterans
(Percy Seminar Room 1)
Chair: Laura Salisbury
12.45-1.45Keynote Address
(Bedson Teaching
Theatre 1)
Chair: Lissa Paul
Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut, USA
“Children’s Books and the Great War”
1.30 Buffet Lunch
2:30 Close of Conference
*All information is correct as of 20- March 2006.