Programme

Please note that the programme has recently been updated and there have been some changes. Please check the 'Timetable for BTB conference at 15 August 07' document to the right for full details of panel/paper scheduling.

 

Friday 31 August 2007
 

8.00                 Registration desk opens

                       Coffee and tea available

 

9.30-9.45          Welcome

 

9.45-11            Keynote I:

 

                       Bridget Jones, Girls' Zines and the Problem of the Future: Gender, Narrative and Subjectivity in the Nineties

 

                       Janice Radway (Frances Fox Professor in Humanities, Department of Literature, and Professor of Literature at Duke University, USA)

 

                       Chair: Danielle Fuller

 

11-11.30           Coffee/Tea

 

11.30-1.00        Parallel Session A

 

1.00-2.00          Lunch

 

2.00-3.30          Parallel Session B 

 

3.30-4.00          Tea/Coffee

 

4.00-6.00          Plenary Roundtable I:

                        Reading as/and Social Change

 

Jane Davis (Editor, The Reader and Director, Get Into Reading, Liverpool UK)

“Community Glue: Why Reading Aloud Holds Us Together”

  

Jenny Hartley (Roehampton University) and Sarah Turvey (Roehampton University)

“What Can a Book Do Behind Bars?”

 

Anne Peoples (Assistant Chief Librarian, Western Education and Library Board, Northern Ireland) “Divided City: A Cross-Border Development Project”

 

LaCoya Katoe and Rebecca Brown (Facilitators, Literature For All of Us)

“Literature for All of Us: a community activist group in Chicago working with vulnerable teens”

 

Chair: Anouk Lang

 

 

Evening            Reception and readings by Birmingham writers in collaboration with the Birmingham Book Festival

                      

                       (time and location tbc)

 

Saturday 1 September 2007

 

8.30                 Registration desk opens

                       Coffee and tea available

 

9.30-11.00        Parallel Session C

 

11.00-11.30      Coffee/Tea

 

11.30-1.00        Parallel Session D

 

1.00-2.00          Lunch

 

Performance piece over lunch

 

Lynette Hunter                           Roget falls in love

 

 

2.00-3.15          Keynote II: Elizabeth Long (Chair of the Department of Sociology, Rice University, Houston, Texas)

                      

                       Chair: DeNel Rehberg Sedo

 

3.15-3.45          Tea/Coffee

 

3.45-5.30          Plenary Roundtable II:

                        Creating Communities of Readers

                      

Jonathan Davidson (Artistic Director, Birmingham Book Festival & Director, Midland Creative Projects Limited)

 

Janice Douglas (Director of Youth Services and Community Relations, Vancouver Public Library, One Book, One Vancouver organizer)

 

Sharon Shaloo (Executive Director, Massachusetts Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress) 

 

Final speaker tbc

 

                       Chair: Jane Davis

                      

5.30-6.30          Reception

 

6.30-8.30          Conference dinner

                        (see information document to the right)

 

Sunday 2 September 2007

9.30-11.00        Parallel Session E

11.00-11.30      Coffee/Tea

 

11.30-1.00        Parallel Session F

 

1.00-2.00          Lunch

 

2.00-3.15          Plenary Roundtable III:

                       Conference round-up

 

                       Jane Davis

                       DeNel Rehberg Sedo

 

                       Other speakers tbc

 

                       Chair: Danielle Fuller

 

 

3.15pm            Close of conference

 

 

For any changes of paper name/presenter details, please email Anouk Lang at a.e.lang@bham.ac.uk.

If you are a practitioner or a postgraduate student and are unsure about how the conference will work, please download our Glossary of Terms (at the top right of this page).
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