They're launching it on Friday March 11th. The programme's as follows:
09.00–09.45 Registration and Coffee
09.45-09.50 Welcome
Professor Jim McDonald (University of Strathclyde)
09.50-10.00 Introduction
Neil Davidson (University of Strathclyde)
10.00-11.15 Session 1: Why a Centre for the Study of Working Class Lives?
Professor Michael Zweig (Stony Brook University)
11.15–11.30 Refreshment Break
11.30–12.45 Session 2: Class, Work and Deindustrialisation
Dr Tim Strangleman (University of Kent)
12.45–13.45 Buffet Lunch
13.45–15.00 Session 3: The Power of Class: Inequalities, Injuries and Actions in the History of Advanced Capitalism
Professor Michael J. Haynes (University of Wolverhampton)
15.00–16.15 Session 4: Panel Discussion
Geographies of Social Class in 21st Century Britain
Professor Danny Dorling (University of Sheffield)
Where is the Working Class? Class Agency and Resistance in British Cities
Dr Andrew Cumbers (University of Glasgow)
16.15–16.30 Refreshment Break
16.30–17.45 Session 5: Representations of the Working Class in Contemporary Art and Culture
Gail Day (University of Leeds) and Steve Edwards (The Open University)
17.45-18.00 Reflections on the Conference
Professor Michael Zweig (Stony Brook University)
18.00–19.00 Wine Reception/Informal discussion
Registration is £40 to academics, free to students and non-academics. Email claire.mcconnell AT strath.ac.uk to book.
