Miners Strike Conference

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1. John Says:
   March 3rd, 2010 at 10:28 am

   FULL DETAILS
   digging the seam:
   cultural reflections & the consequences of
   the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike
   Conference 25
   th
   to 27
   th
   March 2010, University of Leeds
   Exhibition, performance, screenings, testimony and academic papers. With contributions
   from: John Hyatt (MMU, the Three Johns); Richard Crangle (Exeter); Rosemary Preece
   (National Coal Mining Museum for England); Sue Owen (Sheffield); Michael Bailey (Leeds
   Metropolitan University); Patricia Holland (Bournemouth); Granville Williams; Dave
   Rogers (Banner Theatre); Ian Beesley (photographer) and others.
   Provisional Programme
   For more information, and to register: Online registration
   Full details via http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/ or contact Dr. Eleri Pound at
   ics-conferences@leeds.ac.uk or on 0113 343 5805.
   Organised at the University of Leeds by the Louis Le Prince Centre and the
   Media Industries Research Centre at the Institute of Communications Studies;
   with support from the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, the
   School of Music, Leeds International Film Festival, Opera North, and the DARE
   partnership.
   Accommodation
   We have negotiated reduced rates with Weetwood Hall hotel, quote
   Digging the Seam when you book for the conference rate of £70 bed &
   breakfast. Other hotel recommendations can be found on this page:
   http://www.leeds.ac.uk/visitors/where_to_stay.htm
   Photo: Tony Fletcher
   Registration is now open for this conference, which is aimed at both HE scholars and
   the public, with keynote speakers representing different approaches to the ‘re-telling’ of
   The conference looks at mainstream and alternative representations of the strike at the time
   and, subsequently, across the broad range of cultural expression such as the press, TV, film,
   performance, photography and music and song. Plus, 25 years on, how both archive study
   and new creative work lead us into new insights and perspectives.
   David Peace (author of GB84)
   Julian Petley (Brunel University)
   Simon Popple (University of Leeds)
   Patrick Russell and Ros Cranston (BFI)
   Yvette Vanson (documentary maker) & Michael Mansfield QC
   Eve Wood (film maker) & Russell Senior (Pulp) The Beat is the Law
   Poet Ian McMillan, and the world premiere of Songs at the Year’s
   End with music by Hugh Nankivell
   Dave Douglass (NUM)
   The conference is organised into four strands – Memory, Legacy, Media &
   Popular Culture, and Witness – to help compare and contrast the personal
   and the objective study, the artefact and the heritage industry, cultural
   memory and the creative.
   the strike:

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