CfP: Working-Class Studies Beyond the Heartlands (Event, 09/2019, Canterbury/UK); DL: 25.03.2019

Working-Class Studies Association and University of Kent (Web)

Time: 03.-06.09.2019
Venue: University of Kent, Canterbury
Proposals by: 25.03.2019

With a growing awareness of class-based inequality, Brexit, and a new willingness to discuss working-class issues, the organizers are pleased to announce the next conference of the Working- Class Studies Association. In its fifteen year history, this will be the first time the conference will hold outside its heartland of the USA. It aims to build and consolidate work being carried out currently in the UK and Europe with the USA and elsewhere in the world.

Working-Class Studies as a field seeks to bring together academics, activists, artists and others interested in working-class issues and themes. As an interdisciplinary field, it brings together sociologists, literary scholars, anthropologists, geographers, historians, cultural studies scholars, poets and economists amongst others. the organizers welcome proposals for individual papers, panels and other forms of representation.

Conference themes will include:

    • Class and Education
    • Deindustrialisation, Work and Class
    • Nostalgia, Memory, Heritage and Loss

  • Class Cultures and Identities
  • Working-Class Health and Embodiment
  • Place, Belonging and Class
  • Class and its Intersections

All presenters at the 2019 Conference are required to become members of the Working- Class Studies Association. The WCSA attempts to accommodate all income levels with adjusted rates for membership. For more information, please visit the website.

Submitting a proposal:

  • Abstracts should be no more than 200 words in a standard Word document.
  • The proposals should identify strand themes into which their presentation will fit.
  • They should also have clear contact information for each presenter and indicate technology needs, if any.
  • Please submit your proposed paper, panel, or other ideas via the conference email: wcsaconference@kent.ac.uk

Conference Timeline:
Deadline for proposals: March 25th 2019
Notification of acceptance: 15th April 2019
For updates, more information, or to get in touch:
Email: wcsaconference@kent.ac.uk
Twitter: WCSA @wcstudies / Kent organising team @DIndustrialKentHashtag: #WCSA19
WCSA-Website