Very pleased to announce the programme, we are looking forward to welcoming the speakers and all of those who have already registered on Eventbrite.
Femorabilia Study Day and Symposium
Saturday, 22 October 2016
Aldham Robarts Library, Liverpool John Moores University
29 Maryland Street, Liverpool, L1 9DE9.30—10.00: Registration/Welcome
10.00—11.30: Hands-on-Session with the Femorabilia Collection
11.30—13.00: Panel 1: Influencing Girls
Chair: Nickianne Moody (LJMU)
Beth Rodgers (Aberystwyth): “Chatting with the Girl of the Period: Alice Corkran’s Editorship of the Girl’s Realm (1898-1915)”
Mel Gibson (Northumbria): “Something for the girls? Constructions of British middle-class girlhood in ‘Girl’, and ‘Princess’ in the 1960s”
Julia Round (Bournemouth): “Comics Communities in Letters Pages: Make Misty for Me”
13.00—13.30: Lunch
13.30—15.30: Panel 2: Reading Readers and Fan Cultures
Chair: Joanne Knowles (LJMU)
Val Hewson (Independent): “’Quite honest…and most carefully done’: a survey of children’s reading in Sheffield (1937-38)”
Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan): “The Case of the Curious Speech Bubbles: Researching 1950s UK Romance Comics”
Ellie Reed (Roehampton): “Oh, to be a woman with lots of spare time? Being lower middle class in Woman’s Weekly, 1930”
Ellen Wright (DMU): “I Can Make You A Star: Star Text, Fan Agency and Extra-Textual Materials”
Special Dedicated Panel: Re:Reading Spare Rib
Chair: Catherine Paula Han (Independent)
Victoria Bazin (Northumbria): “Advertising Feminism: Spare Rib and the Magazine Market in the 1970s”
Julie Scanlon (Northumbria): “Feminist Perspectives: North East and National”
Mel Waters (Northumbria): ‘‘’Yours in Struggle’: Bad Feelings and Revolutionary Politics in Spare Rib”
Rosie White (Northumbria): “‘What did it mean?’: A Generational Conversation”
13.30-16.00: Refreshment Break
16.00—17.00: Keynote
Lisa Stead (University of East Anglia)—“‘Dear Cinema Girls’: Girlhood, Picturegoing and the Interwar Film Magazine”
Chair: Sian Lincoln (LJMU)
Very pleased to announce the programme, we are looking forward to welcoming the speakers and all of those who have already registered on Eventbrite
Femorabilia Study Day and Symposium
Saturday, 22 October 2016
Aldham Robarts Library, Liverpool John Moores University
29 Maryland Street, Liverpool, L1 9DE
9.30—10.00: Registration/Welcome
10.00—11.30: Hands-on-Session with the Femorabilia Collection
11.30—13.00: Panel 1: Influencing Girls
Chair: Nickianne Moody (LJMU)
Beth Rodgers (Aberystwyth): “Chatting with the Girl of the Period: Alice Corkran’s Editorship of the Girl’s Realm (1898-1915)”
Mel Gibson (Northumbria): “Something for the girls? Constructions of British middle-class girlhood in ‘Girl’, and ‘Princess’ in the 1960s”
Julia Round (Bournemouth): “Comics Communities in Letters Pages: Make Misty for Me”
13.00—13.30: Lunch
13.30—15.30: Panel 2: Reading Readers and Fan Cultures
Chair: Joanne Knowles (LJMU)
Val Hewson (Independent): “’Quite honest…and most carefully done’: a survey of children’s reading in Sheffield (1937-38)”
Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan): “The…
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