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davidt
on Monday March 14 2005, @10:00AM
Uncleskinny forwards the Provisional Schedule from Sean Campbell. Stephen Wright sends the photoshoot press release (Word format). Colin Coulter sends the press release:
A Weekend With The Smiths Manchester April 8th to 10th 2005 Over the weekend of April 8th to 10th there will a series of events celebrating the music of The Smiths. The centrepiece of the weekend is an academic conference hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University and entitled ‘Why Pamper Life’s Complexities? A Symposium on The Smiths’. Speakers at the conference include John Harris, Dave Haslam, Simon Goddard and Professor Sheila Whiteley. Further details on the conference are available at www.mipc.mmu.ac.uk The other events planned for the weekend include:
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Nooooooo! (Score:1)
Dammitalltohell!!!
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ho hum. (Score:1)
It's things like this (among many others) that make me wish I was British...
You are the lucky ones (in more ways than one).
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How Much!? (Score:1)
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They Smyths (Score:1)
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Analysed beyond recognition? (Score:1)
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Smithsneyland (Score:0, Flamebait)
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well worth a try (Score:0)
I feel tempted (Score:0)
Shaking my funky stuff (Score:1, Interesting)
Any single fellas who fancy their chances with a very lovely lady should also attend because my friend Kerry wants to go and she's a bit of an eye full. There we go - using Morrissey Solo to whore off my mates - fantastic.
Oh, and ignore the above post. Manchester's candy floss and without a single hard inhabitant. It's all front.
Man, I wish i could be there. (Score:2, Informative)
Lectures about The Smiths, who would have imagined that 10 years ago...
This sounds fascinating:
Provisional Schedule
Friday 8 April
12.00-2.00: Registration
Tea and Coffee will be available.
2.00-3.00: Welcome and Opening Plenary
Introduction to the Conference: Fergus Campbell and Justin O’Connor
Opening Speaker: Dave Haslam
3.00-4.30: Parallel Sessions
Session A: ‘Manchester, so much to answer for’
Katie Milestone (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘The Smiths, Manchester and Identity’
Gian Petro Leonardi (University of Rome) ‘Refractory Poles: Manchester and London in The Smiths’ imagery’
Ellie-Varvara Stathaki (University College London) ‘Architecture through Music: Experiencing and Expressing Manchester’
Session B: ‘England is Mine’: Place, Nation and Beyond
Sean Campbell (APU, Cambridge) ‘“Irish Blood, English Heart”: Nationality, Subjectivity and The Smiths’
Tara Brabazon (Murdoch University) ‘There is a Light that Never Goes Out’
4.30-5.00: Tea and Coffee
5.00-6.00 Plenary Session.
John Harris: ‘Sing Me to Sleep: The Smiths and the Demise of English Rock’
6.00-7.00 Wine Reception
8.00 - Smiths Disco at the Star and Garter
Saturday 9 April
10.00-11.30: Parallel Sessions
Session A: ‘In the days when you were hopelessly poor, I just liked you more’: Class, Politics and the Kitchen Sink
Colin Coulter (NUI Maynooth) ‘A Double Bed and A Stalwart Lover For Sure: The Smiths, the Alchemy of Class and the End of Pop’
Kari Kallioniemi (University of Turku) ‘The Theatres of Memory or Radical Chic? The Smiths and Early 1960s British Kitchen-Sink Cinema’
Paulo Oliveira (University of Aveiro, Portugal) ‘The Smiths and Working Class Realist Aesthetics’
Session B: ‘Will nature make a man of me yet?’: Sex, Gender, Identity
Melinda Hsu (Meikai University, Japan) ‘Posing as a “Sodomite” on Top of the Pops: The Smiths and Camp Performance’
Cordelia Bradby (Goldsmiths College, London) ‘Does the Body Rule the Mind or Does the Mind Rule the Body? I Dunno’
Kieran Cashell (Limerick Institute of Technology) ‘Don’t Try to Wake Me in the Morning … I Will Be Gone: Subjectivity, Suicide and The Smiths’
11.30-12.00: Tea and Coffee
12.00-1.00: Keynote Address.
Professor Sheila Whiteley (University of Salford)
‘This Charming Man: The Smiths, Morrissey and Sexual Dialogics’
1.00-2.15: Break for Lunch
2.15-3.45: Parallel Sessions
Session A: ‘We’ve something they’ll never have’ Fandom, Reception and Memory
Karl Maton (University of Keele) ‘Last Night They Dreamt That Somebody Loved Them: Fans of The Smiths during the late 1980s’
Renate Muller, Marc Calmbach and Stefanie Rhein (University of Ludwigsburg) ‘What Difference Does It Make? The Empirical Aesthetics of The Smiths: How Do Young People Relate to The Smiths’ Aesthetics? An Experimental Audiovisual Survey’
Felicity Cull (Murdoch University) ‘Pity you didn’t sign The Smiths: The Smiths and Popular Memory’
Session B: ‘Keats and Yeats Are on Your Side’: Visual and Literary Style
Michael Calderbank (MMU Cheshire) ‘More to Life Than Books? Dialectics of Aestheticism and Naturalism: The Literary Sensibility of The Smiths’
Cecilia Mello (University of London) ‘I Don’t Owe You a Thing: The Smiths and the British New Wave’
Gavin Hopps (University of Oxford) ‘Morrissey and the Light That Never Goes Out’
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How about organising a London one? (Score:0)
Plenty of old Mozza rather than Smiths haunts in the shitty of London, isn't there? or is London dead?
Re:Be WARNED (Score:0)
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