Thursday, 10 November 2015
13:00-13:30
Welcome and Introduction
Andreas Gestrich (London), Dion Georgiou (London), Tobias Becker (London)
13:30-15:00
Panel 1: Alternative Pasts, Presents and Futures
Chair: Deborah Sugg Ryan (Portsmouth)
Susan Baumert (Jena), The Creative and Joyful Play with the Aesthetics of the Past: A comparative study on the three main retro events
Helen Wagner (Duisburg-Essen), Past as Future? Nostalgia as a way of building a future
Tobias Steiner (Hamburg), Nazi flags on Times Square! Obverted nostalgia and the renegotiation of cultural memory in U.S. alternate history TV drama
15:30-17:00
Panel 2: Gendering the Past
Chair: Sabine Sielke (Bonn)
Elena Caoduro (Luton), Femme Rétro: The gendered politics of retro pop stars
Kim Wiltshire (Ormskirk), Re-making the Hegemonic British Male 1960s Icon in the New Millennium
Christina Bush (Berkeley), “Have You Ever Been Mistaken for a Man”: Aliens, sneaker nostalgia, and (im)proper performances of gender
17:30-19:00
Panel 3: Embodying the Past
Chair: Michael Dwyer (Philadelphia)
Heike Jenss (New York), Nostalgia Modes? Vintage and Heritage in Fashion
Josette Wolthuis (Coventry), ‘Nostalgia Feels Like an Old Tweed Coat’: Dressing the fifties and sixties on television
Michael Williams (Southampton), ‘I dream in #mycalvinss’: Sculptural longing and celebrity poses from Gloria Swanson to Justin Bieber
Friday, 11 November
9:00-10:30
Panel 4: Sensory Nostalgias
Chair: Gary Cross (State College)
Elodie Roy (Glasgow), The Consumption of Time
Bodo Mrozek (Berlin), Olfaction and Ostalgia: A sensory approach to nostalgia
Lily Kelting (Berlin), From Fried Chicken to Kimchi Grits: Restaurants and the nostalgia industry in the U.S. South
11:00-12:30
Panel 5: Digital Nostalgias
Chair: Claire Monk (Leicester)
Aline Maldener (Saarbrücken), Remembering Youth: Internet forums as digital “media memory” of 1960s and 70s youth media and their popular culture
Rieke Jordan (Berlin), Once Upon a Time on the Internet: The music album as an object in the 21st Century
Dion Georgiou (London), ‘Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!’: Intermediality, temporality and consumer resistance in the 2009 campaign to get rage against the machine to Christmas Number One
13:30-15:00
Round Table
Chair: Tobias Becker (London)
Gary Cross (State College), Michael Dwyer (Philadelphia), Claire Monk (Leicester), Deborah Sugg Ryan (Portsmouth)