Middlebrow Network

Future Events

Middlebrow Network

• Adapting The Constant Nymph: Film and the Bestseller between the Wars

  Friday, 22nd June 2012, Sheffield Hallam University.

  This event is part of the work on the 'Readerships and Literary Cultures 1900-1950 Special Collection', and will include a screening of the 'sumptuous' 1933 adaptation of The Constant Nymph.

External

• Space and Place in the Middlebrow: 1900-1950

   Institute of English Studies, University of London, 13-14 September 2012

• Mass Observation Anniversaries Conference

  To mark 75 years of Mass Observation and 30 years of the Mass Observation Project there will be a conference at the University of Sussex, 4-6 July 2012.

• Material Cultures in the Space Between 1914-1945

  The 2012 conference of the Space Between Society will take place on 14-16 June 2012 at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Past Events

Middlebrow Network

• The Battle of the Brows: Cultural Distinction in the Space Between, 1914-1945

  The 2011 Middlebrow Network conference is in conjunction with the Space Between Society.

  16-18 June 2011, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
  

• Readerships and Literary Cultures Special Collection Event

  10th June 2011, Sheffield Hallam University

• 2009 Middlebrow Network Conference

  The 2009 Middlebrow Network conference Middlebrow Cultures took place at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on Tuesday 14th - Wednesday 15th July 2009. Further details including programme, abstracts and selected presentations

• Historicising the Middlebrow conference

  The network was launched at this event, which took place at Sheffield University in July 2008.

External

• Postgraduate conference: The Popular and the Middlebrow: Women's Writing 1880-1940

  12th April 2012, Newcastle University, UK

• Nostalgia in the Twenty-First Century: ESRC Seminar Series

  University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2010-11

• Researching Popular Fictions: Method, Practice and Resonant Themes

  Conference organised by the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, 19-20 November 2011, Liverpool John Moores University

• The Popular Imagination and the Dawn of Modernism: Middlebrow Writing 1890-1930

  15-16 September 2011, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Keynote speaker: Professor Ann Ardis (University of Delaware).

• Glasgow School of Art Study Day

  This study day took place on 6 May 2010, with speakers Dr Lawrence Napper and Dr Will May. Dr May's presentation 'Books are a load of crap: Reading Society in Postwar Britain' can be accessed here.

• International Penguin Conference

  University of Bristol, 29 June - 1 July 2010.

  In 2010, Penguin Books will be 75 years old and Puffin Books will be 70 years old. Organised by the AHRC Penguin Archive Project, the International Penguin Conference is occasioned by these two anniversaries of what is arguably the most distinctive and the most significant publishing house in the twentieth century and beyond.

• The Space Between

  University of Portland, Oregon, 17-19 June 2010.

  The society's 2010 conference is on the theme 'Belief and Disbelief in the Space Between, 1914-1945'.

• Modernist Studies Association

  MSA 11: The Languages of Modernism - Montréal, Québec, Canada, November 5-8, 2009.

  Network members presented a panel: "The Middlebrow Lexicon" and led a seminar: "Middlebrow/Modernist" at the 2009 MSA. An account of the seminar discussion can be downloaded.

• F Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference

  Baltimore, Maryland, 30 September - 3 October 2009.

  Network member Sharon Hamilton presented "Fitzgerald's Smart Set Fiction: The Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald Wrote for the New Yorker of His Day."

• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)

  Network members presented three panels at the 2009 conference in Toronto: "Domestic Professionals: the shifting status of authorship, childcare and interior design in interwar Britain"; "The News in Luscious Form": Magazines, Urban Circulation, and Cultural Hierarchies in New York, 1910s-1930s; and "Repossessing the Transatlantic Middlebrow."