Angles: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference on Cultural History

Birkbeck, University of London
B35 Malet St, 9.30 - 5.15
Saturday 20 June 2009

This conference will focus on unusual topics and unconventional approaches to otherwise familiar topics. Papers deal with cultural practices that have been neglected by traditional history and engage with fields, trends and themes that have been overlooked by existing scholarship.

Registration is now closed.

Papers

Why is it so funny that there is a Parthenon at Nashville? Kate Nichols, Birkbeck
Buildings: an unusual angle on cultural history. Tim Livsey, Birkbeck
Bringing history to life?: new approaches to heritage. Alice Kershaw, Birkbeck / Benjamin Franklin House

Human lives in musical sounds. Timothy Day, King's College London
Smiths and armourers: a medieval nuisance? Alan Kissane, University of Nottingham
Unintended hybridity: the case of higher space. Mark Blacklock, Birkbeck

"What's so bad about a little drinking?": the challenges of an interdisciplinary approach to cultural history. Deborah Toner, University of Warwick
The case of the disappearing woman writer: letters, journals, memoirs…graphs? Susan Civale, Birkbeck
The methodology of comparative analysis: urban space and its violence in new French, British and Polish theatre. Agnieszka Szmidt, Université Nancy2

Seduction of the innocent: V for Vendetta as gothic (graphic) novel. Tony Venezia, Birkbeck
Nagashima Yurie's Kazoku: The emergence of self-nude photography in Japan's post-bubble era. Marco Bohr, University of Westminster

Co-organisers:
Rachel Richardson, Thomas Turner, James Emmott
(Birkbeck)

Supported by:
School of History, Classics and Archaeology / www.bbk.ac.uk/hca
School of English and Humanities / www.bbk.ac.uk/eh
In association with the London Consortium / www.londonconsortium.com