IDEAS IN PROGRESS

SPRING

23 January – Tim Putnam – Household choices: design and domestic consumption

6 February – Hanif Kureishi – A reading from The Buddha of Suburbia and other matters…

20 February – Helen Taylor – The popular reception of Gone with the Wind

6 March – Declan McGonagle – A new necessity: The importance of placein making and mediating art

20 March – Ann Gray – Video Playtime – some problems with ethnography

SUMMER

1 May – Delia Jarrett Macaulay – Developing black women’s studies

15 May – Lynda Nead – The female nude: art, obscenity and notions of the sublime

29 May – Elaine Showalter – Salome: Unveiling the women

12 June – Peter Middleton – Men and modernity

AUTUMN

25 September – Whitney Chadwick – When is a horse not a horse? Rosa Bonheur – Social control and the Victorian pornographic imagination

9 October – Ann Gray – Video Playtime

23 October – Lola Young – Meditations on Beloved

6 November – Rosalind Brunt – “I shall only answer if you call me George”: the appeal of the tomboy in children’s fiction

20 November – David Mellor – Prolegomena to the ‘60s