Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Line-up announced for Leeds Cultural Conversations series
The series of monthly lunchtime talks, which kicks off in September, will showcase the leading research being undertaken by the university’s Centre for Culture and the Arts.
Organised in partnership with Leeds City Council, this is the fourth year the series has run and is designed to involve the public in the centre's research and encourage debate within the city.
This year’s series, supported by global academic publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, will see some of the centre’s leading academics engage in conversations on a variety of topics; from the perils of dieting, the history of the Borstal Young Offenders Institutions, and the representation of vampires and zombies in contemporary culture.
The hour-long talks will run from September 2018 to May 2019 and will be held at Leeds Town Hall.
Dr Susan Watkins, Director of the Centre for Culture and the Arts, said: “Leeds Beckett has a long history of public engagement work and we want as many people as possible to know about the fascinating range of research that our centre is doing.
“‘We have a fantastic line-up of expert cultural studies staff presenting research this year on some really interesting and important topics.
The series will kick-off on 5 September with a fascinating talk by Leeds Beckett’s Dr Katherine Harrison and Liverpool John Moores’ Dr Cassie Ogden, titled ‘Stitch and Bitch: Knitting, Femininity and Women's Everyday Lives’, exploring the resurgence in popularity of knitting and the importance it plays in female relationships, identity and creativity. The inaugural talk will take place at 12.30-13.30 in the Sullivan Room at Leeds Town Hall, Leeds LS1 3AD.
For more information, visit: http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/lcc/
Forthcoming talks:
5 September 2018 (12.30-13.30) - Stitch and Bitch: Knitting, Femininity and Women’s Everyday Lives
Katherine Harrison (Leeds Beckett University) and Cassie Ogden (Liverpool John Moores University)
3 October 2018 (12.30-13.30) - ‘Challenging the British Asian football exclusion’
Dan Kilvington
7 November 2018 (12.30-13.30) - The Contemporary Gothic: Monstrosity in the New Millennium
Sue Chaplin
5 December 2018 (12.30-13.30) - Revisiting Borstal: Youth, Crime and Penality, c. 1902-1982
Heather Shore
6 February 2019 (12.30-13.30) - Queer - Beyond London: Culture, Place and Home in Four English Cities since the 1960s.
Alison Oram
6 March 2019 (12.30-13.30) - Dieting: why we started and why we must stop
Jayne Raisborough
3 April 2019 (12.30-13.30) - Look who’s talking – language and literature in a world of data
Andrew Cooper
8 May 2019 (12.30-13.30) - An American in Calcutta: Henry Lee and the Indo-U. S. Trade, 1811-1816
Andrew Lawson