The School of Political, Social and Geographical Sciences at Loughborough University is hosting an interdisciplinary and international conference on the Beatles from Thursday 4 to Friday 5 October 2012.
The conference commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the Beatles' first single Love Me Do. It brings together established and emerging scholars to showcase current research on the Beatles and their milieu and to assess how they have been studied by historians, art historians, social scientists, musicologists and cultural critics.
Confirmed speakers and subjects include:
Martha Bari (Hood) – (Un)becoming: John Lennon’s You Are Here Art Exhibit at the Fraser Gallery
Mike Brocken (Liverpool Hope) – Joe Flannery and the Beatles in 1962
Lucy Brown (Sheffield) – I Want to Hold Your Hand: Love, Marriage and the Beatles
Colin Campbell (York), Ian Inglis (Northumbria) and Allan Moore (Surrey) – Research Roundtable
Gerry Carlin and Mark Jones (Wolverhampton) – ‘Misunderstanding All You See’: Charles Manson Reading the Beatles at the End of the World
Marcus Collins (Loughborough) – The Beatles at Fifty
Richard Coopey (Aberystwyth) – If I Needed Someone: A Reappraisal of Brian Epstein as Entrepreneur
Cliff Eisen (King’s College, London), Daniel Magnoff (Coombe Girls' School) and Mike Brocken (Liverpool Hope) – Teaching Roundtable
David Fowler (Cambridge) – ‘You Say You Want a Revolution’: The Beatles, the Birth of Student Power and Countercultural London c. 1968-c.1971
Sharif Gemie (Glamorgan) – From Liverpool to Tibet: Tomorrow Never Knows and the Troubled Path to the East
Stephen Glynn (De Montfort) – Lester in the Lead-up to Love Me Do
Georgina Gregory (UCLan) – I’ll Be Back: Reflections on the Beatles’ Contribution to Pop Heritage
Yrjö Heinonen (Turku) – The Creative Process of the Beatles Revisited
Ian Inglis (Northumbria) – The Beatles in Hamburg
Olivier Julien (Paris-Sorbonne) – Multi-Track Technology
Martin King (Manchester Met) – Men, Masculinity and the Beatles
Mike Kirkup (Teesside), Stephanie Piotrowski (Teesside) and Richard Mills (St Mary’s) – Fandom Roundtable
Collin Lieberg (Warwick) – Representations of English National Identity in the Works of the Beatles, Kinks and Who
Joseph Maslen (Edge Hill) – Sunset of the Post-War Consensus? The Beatles at the Cusp of the 1970s
James McGrath (Leeds Met) – ‘Where You Once Belonged’: Lennon and McCartney’s Working-Class Affiliations
Allan Moore (Surrey) – Who Sings Love Me Do?
Jon Stewart (BIMM) – John Lennon, Bob Dylan and Cultural Correspondence
Holly Tessler (UWS) – Beatles For Sale: Profiteering and the Exploitation of the Beatle Legacy, 1970-1995
Sheila Whiteley (Salford) – Peeling The Onion (Layer by Layer)
A photographic exhibit by Mark Fremaux (Edge Hill) comparing Liverpool and Hamburg be on display throughout the conference.
Please contact the conference organiser, Marcus Collins, for further information.
The conference commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the Beatles' first single Love Me Do. It brings together established and emerging scholars to showcase current research on the Beatles and their milieu and to assess how they have been studied by historians, art historians, social scientists, musicologists and cultural critics.
Confirmed speakers and subjects include:
Martha Bari (Hood) – (Un)becoming: John Lennon’s You Are Here Art Exhibit at the Fraser Gallery
Mike Brocken (Liverpool Hope) – Joe Flannery and the Beatles in 1962
Lucy Brown (Sheffield) – I Want to Hold Your Hand: Love, Marriage and the Beatles
Colin Campbell (York), Ian Inglis (Northumbria) and Allan Moore (Surrey) – Research Roundtable
Gerry Carlin and Mark Jones (Wolverhampton) – ‘Misunderstanding All You See’: Charles Manson Reading the Beatles at the End of the World
Marcus Collins (Loughborough) – The Beatles at Fifty
Richard Coopey (Aberystwyth) – If I Needed Someone: A Reappraisal of Brian Epstein as Entrepreneur
Cliff Eisen (King’s College, London), Daniel Magnoff (Coombe Girls' School) and Mike Brocken (Liverpool Hope) – Teaching Roundtable
David Fowler (Cambridge) – ‘You Say You Want a Revolution’: The Beatles, the Birth of Student Power and Countercultural London c. 1968-c.1971
Sharif Gemie (Glamorgan) – From Liverpool to Tibet: Tomorrow Never Knows and the Troubled Path to the East
Stephen Glynn (De Montfort) – Lester in the Lead-up to Love Me Do
Georgina Gregory (UCLan) – I’ll Be Back: Reflections on the Beatles’ Contribution to Pop Heritage
Yrjö Heinonen (Turku) – The Creative Process of the Beatles Revisited
Ian Inglis (Northumbria) – The Beatles in Hamburg
Olivier Julien (Paris-Sorbonne) – Multi-Track Technology
Martin King (Manchester Met) – Men, Masculinity and the Beatles
Mike Kirkup (Teesside), Stephanie Piotrowski (Teesside) and Richard Mills (St Mary’s) – Fandom Roundtable
Collin Lieberg (Warwick) – Representations of English National Identity in the Works of the Beatles, Kinks and Who
Joseph Maslen (Edge Hill) – Sunset of the Post-War Consensus? The Beatles at the Cusp of the 1970s
James McGrath (Leeds Met) – ‘Where You Once Belonged’: Lennon and McCartney’s Working-Class Affiliations
Allan Moore (Surrey) – Who Sings Love Me Do?
Jon Stewart (BIMM) – John Lennon, Bob Dylan and Cultural Correspondence
Holly Tessler (UWS) – Beatles For Sale: Profiteering and the Exploitation of the Beatle Legacy, 1970-1995
Sheila Whiteley (Salford) – Peeling The Onion (Layer by Layer)
A photographic exhibit by Mark Fremaux (Edge Hill) comparing Liverpool and Hamburg be on display throughout the conference.
Please contact the conference organiser, Marcus Collins, for further information.
Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons