THE SECOND WORLD WAR: POPULAR CULTURE AND CULTURAL MEMORY

UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, 13-15 JULY 2011

FINAL PROGRAMME

Wednesday 13 July

From 10: Registration, Grand Parade, Sallis Benney Theatre Lobby

Registration helpers: Stuart Hall, Leah Armstrong, Sarah THompson

12-1Lunch, Grand Parade Restaurant

1.00 – 2.15: Welcome address from Stuart Laing

Keynote one: Susan R. Grayzel (University of Mississippi):‘“I Did What I Could With My Gas Mask”: Popular Culture, Civilians and the Prospect of Chemical Warfare Before and During the Second World War’: Sallis Benney Theatre. Chaired by Lucy Noakes

2.30 – 4.00: Session One(Registration: Phil Barks, Helen Blakeborough)

PLEASE NOTE THE DOOR CODE TO ACCESS ALL SESSIONS HELD IN PAVILION PARADE IS C345.

  1. Gender on the Home Front Chair: Juliette Pattinson Room M57: Grand Parade
  • Linsey Robb: Fighting in their own ways? Filmic and radio depictions of men in reserved occupations, 1939-1946
  • Mark Crowley: Women are without doubt equal to men: post office propaganda to recruit women workers in the Second World War
  • Geraldine Roberts Stone: A harmless recreation? Empowerment and subversion in the poetry of the Women’s Land Army Helper: Leah Armstrong
  1. Narrating the War Chair: Penny Summerfield Room G4: Grand Parade
  • Dorothy Sheridan: Anticipating history: Historical consciousness and the ‘documentary impulse’.
  • Chantel Summerfield: A landscape of memory: Written in the trees
  • Garry Campion: ‘What are your angels now?’ Battle of Britain representation, 1940-2010
  • Helper: Stuart Hall
  1. Pre-war imaginings Chair: Martin Evans, Room 101: Pavilion Parade
  • Joel Morley: ‘Dad used to tell me tales’: Second World War participants and oral narratives of the First World War
  • Eleanor O’Keeffe: Mobilisation and remembrance in the locality circa 1937-1939
  • Christine Grandy: Extraordinary envoys: popular fiction and diplomacy before World War II
  • Helper: Julie Vaughan
  1. Defining the Nation After the War Chair: Gill Scott, Room 102: Pavilion Parade
  • Petra Rau: This strange enemy people: British writers on occupied Germany
  • Georgina Natzio: National narratives after 1945: Signs of recovery from total war in British and German military and civilian literature
  • Camilla Schofield: Enoch Powell and the Second World War
  • Helper: Sarah Thompson

4.00 – 4.30: Tea break, Grand Parade restaurant

4.30 – 6.00: Session Two (Registration Leah Armstrong)

  1. Aerial Bombardment Chair: Martin Evans, Room M57: Grand Parade
  • Richard Overy – ‘To Outbarbarian the Hun’: The popular opposition to British bombing in World War Two
  • Rebecca Searle: The War Artists Advisory Committee and the bombing of Germany
  • Frances Houghton: the missing chapter: post-war memoirs of bomber command aircrew
  • Helper Phil Barks

. 2. Mass Observation and the Second World War Chair: Fiona Courage Room G4 Grand Parade

  • James Hinton: Mass-Observing the People’s War
  • Jen Purcell: The Power of Mass Observation: Understanding the meaning of writing Ourselves
  • Penny Summerfield: Mass Observation, women and the popular memory of the Second World War in Britain Since 1945
  • Helper Stuart Hall
  1. Filming the War Chair: Paul Jobling,Room 101 Pavilion Parade
  • Alexis Pogorelskin: Claudine West and the creation of the popular image of Britain in America during World War II
  • Ellen Wright: Betty Grable: An American icon In Britain, 1939-1945
  • Kate Vigurs: Celluloid Memorials: Post-war depictions of women SOE F agents on film
  • Helper: Julie Vaughan
  1. Museum, Image and Popular Memory of the Second World War Chair: Annabella Pollen Room 102 Pavilion Parade
  • Rebecca Britt: Curating memories of love and war
  • Bex Lewis: Keep Calm and Carry On: A re-sounding message
  • Ian Kikuchi: Memory and the moving image: Factual depictions of the Burma campaign in film and television, 1945-1995
  • Helper: Helen Blakeborough

5. Popular and Material Culture in Wartime Chair: David Clampin Room 204 Pavilion Parade

  • Lesley Whitworth: From ‘fair shares’ to consumer protection: utility and its afterlife
  • Kate McLoughlin: Vera Lynn and the ‘We’ll meet again’ hypothesis
  • Alison Chand: Continuity and change: Masculine identities in the Reserved Occupations in Clydeside, 1939-1945
  • Helper Leah Armstrong

6.15 – 7.15: Keynote Two: Jim Aulich (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘Stealing the Thunder: the Imagery of the Left on the Home Front’ Sallis Benney Theatre. Chaired by Juliette Pattinson

From 7.15: Wine reception, Grand Parade Restaurant

Thursday 14 July

9.00 – 9.30: Registration & coffee, Grand Parade Restaurant

9.30– 11.00: Parallel Session Three

1. Gender and Sexuality Chair: Juliette Pattinson Room M57 Grand Parade

  • Emma Reilly: An officer and a gentleman: sexual culture in the British army 1939-1945
  • Emma Vickers: Queerness and the People’s War
  • Lauren Auger: The best soldiers of all! Canadian memory frameworks of the Second World War and the figuring of British war brides and British war bride veterans in Canadian memory narratives
  • Helper: Phil Barks
  1. Death in Wartime Chair: Claire Langhamer Room 204 Pavilion Parade
  • Hilda Kean: The cat and dog massacre of 1939 and the challenge of rethinking the ‘People’s War’.
  • Lucy Noakes: ‘Let Memorials Be useful’: commemorating the War in 1940s Britain
  • Sebastiano Guintini: Rhetorics of horror and the camps
  • Helper: Sarah Thompson

. 3. Post-45 British Fiction Chair: Paula Derdiger Room G4 Grand Parade

  • Anna McFarlane: The gestalt of the worker/soldier:pacifism and technophobia in post-war science fiction
  • Marina Cano-Lopez: Divided Identities: nation, infidelity and the liberation of Jane Austen in post-war Britain
  • Mark Rawlinson: Reviving the unsaid: what is our culturally-mediated experience of the Second World War all about?
  • Helper: Elizabeth Bradley

4. Memorialising War Chair: Graham Dawson, Room 102 Pavilion Parade

  • Corinna Peniston-Bird: The people’s war in testimony and bronze: the tensions of nostalgia
  • Jane Furlong: The Second World War British memorials
  • Vanessa Morell: Dunkirk Spirit and Captain Scott; Using the comparative approach to assess how their memorials act as remedies of decline
  • Helper: Helen Basterra

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee, Grand Parade Restaurant

11.30– 1.00: Parallel Session Four,

  1. War and Lived Experience Chair: Graham Dawson, Room M57 Grand Parade
  • Melissa Kelly Franklin: The pains of sleep; Mass-Observation dream diaries
  • Hazel Croft: Patriotic pride and a large dose of bromide: psychiatrists and the making of the ‘no neurosis myth’
  • Helen Johnston & Yvonne Jewkes: The English prison during World War Two
  • Helper: Sarah Thompson
  1. Wartime Britain Chair: Bex Lewis Room 101 Pavilion Parade
  • Robert James: Cinema going in a port town: The impact of the Second World War on the tastes of Portsmouth’s naval and working class cinema audiences
  • Michael McCluskey: Landscapes at War: Spring Offensive (1940) and London Can Take It! (1941)
  • Victoria Carolan: ‘The newsreel counterpart of the Henderson White Paper’? For Freedom (Maurice Elvey, 1940)
  • Helper: Amy Letcher

3 War and Commemoration Chair: Lucy Noakes Room G4 Grand Parade

  • Sarah Scripps: Allied in commemoration: 50th anniversary of D
  • Janet K. Watson: Total war and total anniversaries: popular culture and World War 2 commemorations
  • Geoff Bird: Tourism, remembrance and the landscape of war
  • Helper: Helen Basterra

4Contemporary Fiction of the Second World War Chair: Petra Rau, Room 102 Pavilion Parade

  • Eva Perez: Good Germans and bad Tommies: The presentation of unlikely enemies in contemporary British fiction of World War II
  • Adele Jones: Darkness and desire: The gendered blackout in Sarah Walter’s The Night Watch.
  • Christine Berberich: Often hinted at but seldom talked about: British fascism in literature
  • Helper Elizabeth Bradley

1.00 – 2.00: Lunch, Grand Parade Restaurant

2.00 – 3.00 Keynote Lecture Three: Gill Plain, (St Andrews University) Escaping 1945: Popular Fiction and the End of the War, Sallis Benney Theatre. Chaired by Petra Rau

3.00 – 4.00: Frank Gray, (University of Brighton) Screen Archive South East: Filming the War , Sallis Benney Theatre

4.0– 4.30: Tea break, Grand Parade Restaurant

4.30 – 6.00: Parallel Session Five

1. Performing and representing Gender in Wartime Chair: Dorothy Sheridan,Room 102 Pavilion Parade

  • Paul Jobling: A walking as well as a warring nation: menswear advertising in Britain during the Second World War
  • Juliette Pattinson: Hussies, freaks and lady soldiers: uniform, subjectivity and the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
  • June Rowe: The essential accessory: lipstick consumption in Britain during World War Two
  • Helper: Phil Barks

2Popular Culture, Popular Representation Chair Jonathan Black, Room G4 Grand Parade

  • David Clampin: Commercial advertising and the ‘people’s war’ in the everyday
  • Rebecca D’Monte: The empty space: British theatre during the Second World War
  • Jacinta Kelly: ‘Slow, quick, quick’: Irish civilian nurses keeping the chin up in Britain during the Second World War 1939-1945

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  • Helper: Amy Letcher

3Myth and alternate histories of War Chair Janet K. Watson Room M57 Grand Parade

  • Lachlan Grant: Myths and memories of Australia’s Second World War in Asia and the Pacific
  • Bruce Newsome: Against all odds: popular cultural myths of British fighting performance during World War 2
  • Glyn Morgan: Branching paths: Nazi victories in alternate second world wars.
  • Helper: Elizabeth Bradley

4 Representing and Narrating Home and Allies Chair: Gill Scott, Room 101 Pavilion Parade

  • Simon Topping: Faithful Sentinel: Northern Ireland, America and the Second World War
  • Lee Collins: ‘One of the more imponderable influences in the erosion of conservative attitudes’: The Soviet Union in the eyes of the British people during the Second World War

5Prisoners Of War Chair: Louise Purbrick, Room 204 Pavilion Parade

  • Bruce Scates: ‘Memory Traces’: Revisiting the traumascapes of World War II
  • Christina Twomey: POWs and popular culture: The aesthetics of horror
  • Clare Makepeace: Traversing the boundaries of ‘home’ and ‘front’: POWs and their relationships beyond the barbed wire
  • Helper: Helen Basterra

From 8: Conference Dinner, Al Duomo Restaurant

Friday 15 July

9.00 – 9.30: Registration, coffee, Grand Parade Restaurant Registration (until 11: Helen Basterra, Elizabeth Bradley)

9.30– 11.00: Parallel Session Six Registration: Woody Ledeboer

  1. Fashion and Material Culture Chair: Juliette Pattinson Room 101 Pavilion Parade
  • Jane Hattrick: Hartnell’s war: Issues of fashion and business, popular entertainment, royal dressing and the morale of the British people, 1939-1945
  • Alison Slater: The history and memory of dress in World War Two
  • Marie McLoughlin: ‘My heart is inditing of a great matter…’ Lord Woolton, January 1944
  • Helper: Leah Armstong
  1. Representing War: Posters and Art Chair: Lucy Robinson, Room M57 Grand Parade
  • Elizabeth Waters: Poster images of the enemy: the decline of demonisation
  • Jonathan Black: Extraordinary people in a people’s war: national identity, portraiture and spectatorship in British official war art of the Second World War
  • Elizabeth De Cacqueray: Women artists and the ‘people’s war’: boundary crossings
  • Helper: Tom Starkey
  1. Memory and Material Culture Chair: Lucy Noakes Room 102 Pavilion Parade
  • Jonathan Hogg: ‘An Oil Painting from hell: The atomic bomb in British popular culture 1945-1950
  • Graham Cairns: The Royal Festival Hall: Building the new post war Britain
  • Henry Irving: Economics, politics and the cultural memory of war during the transition from war to peace, 1945-1955
  • Helper: Elizabeth Bradley

4. Wartime Literature Chair: Petra Rau, Room M2 Grand Parade

  • Phyllis Lassner: Britain on the Move: World War Two spy fiction and film
  • Katherine Cooper: ‘It was the happiest country in Europe’: The myth of Czechoslovakia in Storm Jameson’s novels of World War II
  • Paula Derdiger: Elizabeth Taylor’s At Mrs Lippingcotes: The wartime ruins of middle class fiction
  • Helper: Helen Blakeborough

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee break, Grand Parade Restaurant

11.30– 1.00: Parallel Session SevenRegistration: Helen Blakeborough, Stuart Hall

  1. Internees and Prisoners of War: Italy and Britain Chair: Lucy Noakes Room M57 Grand Parade
  • Wendy Ugolini: Untold stories of loss: Mourning the ‘enemy’ in World war II Britain
  • Eugenia Corbino: Allied Escapers and Italian Peasants: a history of help and survival
  • Marco Guidici; Remembering a ‘tolerant nation’ at war: Italian prisoners of war in Wales as a case study
  • Helper: Tom Starkey; Woody Ledeboer

2Representing the War in Contemporary Film, Chair: Lucy Robinson, Room M2 Grand Parade

  • Noah Riseman: Rectifying the great Australian silence? Australian indigenous war service in Australia (2009) and Harrys’ War (1999)
  • Nicola Rehling: ‘An impossible task’: Popular Memory, Representation and the Second World War in the screen adaptation of Atonement.
  • Yugin Teo: War, adaptation and forgetting: Atonement(2007) and Never Let Me Go (2010)
  • Helper: Helen Basterra

3Wartime Literature Room Chair: Gill Plain, G4 Grand Parade

  • Philippa Lyon: ‘This convulsion’: Cultural positioning and the poetry of the Second World War
  • Eluned Summers-Bremner: Ruined Hope and Changed Speech: Continuity and Disruption in T.H. White and Patrick Hamilton
  • Caroline Perret: The cultural politics of children’s drawings in Herbert Read’s art criticism and the visual and textual production of French artist Jean Dubuffet in the early 1940s
  • Helper: Leah Armstrong

1.00 – 2.00: Lunch, Grand Parade restaurant

2.00: Conference Ends

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