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Brunsdon, Charlotte (2015) On being made history. Cultural Studies Review, Volume 29 (Number 1). pp. 88-99. doi:10.1080/09502386.2015.965399 ISSN 1837-8692.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2015.965399
Abstract
This essay offers some reflections on the heritage of cultural studies prompted by a conference held at Birmingham University in June 2014. The conference, called CCCS50, was mounted as part of a two-year research project into the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) which is (state) funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. It was scheduled to mark 50 years since the founding of the CCCS by Richard Hoggart in 1964. Speakers at the conference included many who had studied and taught at the CCCS and the later Department of Cultural Studies, and there were ancillary events such as an art exhibition at the nearby Midlands Arts Centre and a photographic exhibition elsewhere in the university. The unhappy history of the relationship between Birmingham University and Cultural Studies (the university had shut down all cultural studies teaching in 2002, as well as consistently under-resourcing it) was a shaping presence during the conference. This and the deaths, in 2014, of both Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall, affected participation in, attendance at, and the tenor of, the proceedings. The author, who studied at CCCS in the 1970s, and has previously written about this experience, explores some of the contradictions of the event for those who found themselves being made history.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cultural Studies Review | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1837-8692 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 29 | ||||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 88-99 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09502386.2015.965399 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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