Postgraduate Day Schedule

TIMETABLE

9.30 – 10.00am:          Registration and refreshments

10.00 – 10.10am:        Welcome address, Dr Dave Beer (University of York)

10.10 – 11.10am:        Discussion panel including Professor Mike Savage (University of Manchester), Dr Paul Hodkinson (University of Surrey)

11.10 – 11.55am:        Postgraduate panel 1:  ‘Contemporary Subcultures’

Anu M. Vaittinen (Newcastle) ‘Mixed Martial Arts Subculture: The local and global space of the MMA gym shaping bodies and practices’

Geneva Murray (York) ‘In the Eye of the Beholder: The meaning of dress in the Roller Derby community’

Rosemary Hill (York) ‘Heavy Metal in the Subcultural Context’

11.55 – 1.15pm:          LUNCH

1.15 – 2.15 pm:           Keynote Interview with Sarah Thornton (Author of Club Cultures and Seven Days in the Art World)

2.15 – 3.00pm:            Postgraduate panel 2: ‘Belonging and Identity’

Alison Mackiewicz (Bath) ‘Bedroom Culture and young women’s resistance to hyperfemininity’

Ann L. Murphy (Newcastle) ‘The Dust of Afghanistan: The Landscape of War and its Impact on the Home Front; Sarah’s story’

Tonya Anderson (Sunderland) ‘Still Kissing Their Posters Goodnight: The shift from individual to communal ‘bedroom culture’ as pop idol fandom goes online’

3.00 – 3.15pm:            Refreshments

3.15 – 4.00pm:            Postgraduate panel 3: ‘Discipline and Control’

Mark Horsley (York) ‘The Emotionality of “Subculture”: Dejection, nihilism, futility and death in Anglo-America’

Alexandra Jugureanu (Brunel) ‘Lay Theories and the Cultural Contingency of Happiness’

Beverly Geesin (York St John) ‘Playing Hide and Seek with Privacy’

4.00 – 4.10pm:            Closing note, Professor Andrew Webster, University of York

4.10 – 6.00pm:            Wine reception