Thursday 31 March 2011

11.00-14.00 Registration

13.00-14.00 Lunch (For those who selected this option on booking – not included in one-day package)

14.00-15.30 Session 1: The City Spectacular (Chair: tbc)

Virtue, Leisure and Pleasure on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour
Rosemary Sweet

Mine Dancers, Rickshaw Pullers and ‘Cape Coloureds’: Local Colour as urban spectacle and ‘unique’ characteristic of three South African cities from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s
Vivian Bickford-Smith

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.30 Session 2: parallel sessions

2.1: Music, Modernity and Urban Space: The Nineteenth Century Experience
(Chair: Markian Prokopovych)

From public to private dance venues: Consumption of dance music in post-war Vienna, c. 1814—1820
Joonas Korhonen

‘A point of reunion’. Class, taste and politics in the French opera in The Hague, 1820-1890
Jan Hein Furnée

The Opera, the crowd, and the press: The opening ceremony scandal in Budapest in 1884
Markian Prokopovych

2.2: Drinking in the Urban Spectacle
(Chair: James Nicholls)

Poisoned streams: alcohol, space and circulation in late Victorian cities
James Kneale and James Nicholls

Liquor control, leisure, and the public hockey arena in Ontario, 1934-1944
Dan Malleck

‘She is Everywhere in Publand’: Older Women Drinkers and the English Public House in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Stella Moss

17.45-19.30 Session 3: parallel new researchers’ workshops

3.1 Processional Culture, Carnival and Festivals
(Chair: tbc)

Leisure and Regional Identity: Crossbow Competitions, Festive Networks and Social Peace in Fifteenth century Flanders
Laura Crombie

Onward Christian Soldiers: Processing the Ideal, Victorian Sunday Schools and Urban Space
Lynn Macgill

Producing and Performing in the Suburban Civic Realm: Charity Carnivals in a London Suburb, 1900-1914
Dion Georgiou

War as a Pleasurable Urban Pursuit? Military Units and the Urban Spectacle, c.1919-1939
Eleanor K. O’Keeffe

3.2 The Rise of Commercial Tourism and Leisure Resorts
(Chair: tbc)

Amabel Hume-Campbell and the Eighteenth Century’s Leisure Resorts: A Re-evaluation of Motivation
Rachael M. Johnson

Living in a Leisure Town: Residential Reactions to the Growth of Popular Tourism in late nineteenth-century Southend
David Churchill

Amusement, Morals, and Religion: The Late Nineteenth Century Seaside Resort Towns of Asbury Park and Ocean Grove
Aris Damadian Lindemans

Beaches in the City: the Quest for the Ideal Urban Beach in Post-war Los Angeles
Elsa Devienne

3.3 The Performance and Experience of Urban Leisure
(Chair: tbc)

‘Here you may find all that you can possibly want’:  The British Museum, Rationality and Leisure in London, 1850-1890
Joseph De Sapio

Middlesbrough’s Steel Magnates’ Patronage of Social and Leisure Provision, 1880-1934
Tosh Warwick

Saint-Germain-des Prés: A Mythology for Tourists and Consumers
Éric Dussault

Photography of Leisure, Photography as Pleasure: Consuming the Image of the European City in the Postwar Photographic Press, 1950-55
Tom Allbeson

Friday 1 April 2011

09.00-10.30 Session 4: parallel sessions

4.1 Urban Pleasurescapes: Rethinking Approaches to Public Leisure
(Chair: tbc)

The Urban Renaissance and the Mob: Rethinking Urban Leisure in the Long Eighteenth century
Emma Griffin

Shopping for Pleasure on Saturday Night: Working-class Market Streets in London, 1880-1914
Victoria Kelley

Mechanical Pleasures: The Appeal of British Amusement Parks, 1900-1914
Josie Kane

4.2 Cities as Monuments of Urban Pleasure: International and Transnational Perspectives
(Chair: tbc)

Celebrity as Mass-entertainment: the British Tours of Lajos Kossuth, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Giuseppe Garibaldi
Simon Morgan

Pleasure in the Ruins: Guides to the Paris Commune Ruins, 1871
Daryl P. Lee

‘Temptation is at that place’: Urban Pleasure on the Western Front
Krista Cowman

4.3 Civic Culture and Place Identity
(Chair: tbc)

‘Oases of Pleasure in Deserts of Toil’?  Leisure, Recreation and the Promotion of Civic Culture in Two Clyde Shipbuilding Communities, c. 1885-1912
Michael G. Pugh

Never Never Landscapes: Childhood and the Municipal Park in England
Katy Layton-Jones

Consumer Culture, Leisure and Civic Identity in Manchester: From the Great Depression to A City Speaks
Charlotte Wildman

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.45 Session 5: Pleasure Resorts: The Rise of Seaside Towns and Mass Tourism in Comparative History (Chair: tbc)

Seaside Strategies: Placing Pleasure and Commerce in the Resort Towns of the Welsh Bristol Channel Coast, 1750-1914
Peter Borsay and Louise Miskell

Another Face of “Mass Tourism”: San Sebastián and the Spanish Seaside under Franco, 1937-1975
John K. Walton

12.45 Closing remarks

13.00-14.00 Lunch (included in one-day conference package)

14.00 Conference ends