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The international conference hopes to attact scholars from a range of disciplines, including literary, cultural and gender studies, film & media, theatre and sport as well as history, politics and sociology.
We are inviting papers of twenty minutes on all relevant aspects of British life and culture of the period (as well as its antecedents and aftermaths). Topics and approaches might include:
Working-class life: image and reality
Popular culture and American models
The music business
Fashion and design
Gender studies and Queer Theory
Censorship, the law and the Wolfenden Report
End of Empire: Suez and its aftermath
Industrial and technological change
Immigration and HMS Windrush
Medical, psychological and scientific discourses
Film and television
National service
The rise of the celebrity
The position of sport
Orwell, Hoggart and the Uses of Sociology
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