{"id":494,"date":"2026-09-28T15:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/cultures-of-class\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:52:10","slug":"transitions-class-and-its-changing-impacts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/cultures-of-class\/transitions-class-and-its-changing-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions – Class and its Changing Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Call for Papers of the Innovation Network on Cultures of Class<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One-day Symposium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peel Park Campus, University of Salford <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday 1st<\/sup> April 2027, 10:00-18:00<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote speaker: Prof Tim Strangleman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Innovation Network on Cultures of Class calls for proposals for its inaugural symposium Transitions: Class and its Changing Impacts<\/em> on 1 April, 2027. The symposium addresses class related topics concerning the arts, humanities and social science. Because the remit of the network is to support and connect members across social boundaries, we invite proposals from academics, the GLAM sector, practitioners, representatives of municipal governments, trade unions, community groups, and members of the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will discuss the fluctuating and transient nature of class as a socio-economic concept, and the changing social, cultural and political landscapes by which class and its representations, are subjected. It also explores the trends and changes in disciplines dedicated to its examination, including but not limited to, ideologies of social mobility, class identity, class consciousness, and methodological approaches to the study of class. Sessions therefore address representations of class in the media, classed experiences as expressed in creative writing, educational inequalities, social housing, and responses to working-class identities in the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To apply, please send a 250-300-word proposal to <\/strong>culturesofclass@salford.ac.uk<\/strong><\/a> by<\/strong> 15 January 2027.<\/strong> Proposals should name the presenter, any co-presenters, include a title, affiliation (if applicable) and should not be AI generated. We will informe of the outcome in early February 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When composing a proposal, either respond to one of the session-calls below or submit a proposal for a \u2018free\u2019 session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Media, Culture and Class<\/strong><\/summary>\n
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The Media, Culture and Class-Group of the Innovation Network invites proposals for papers on a panel exploring how class is made, remade, and contested across contemporary media and cultural forms. Taking up the symposium’s theme of transitions<\/em>, we are interested in the moments at which class identities, cultures, and institutions shift in the passage from one form of work to another, from one generation to the next, from analogue to platform cultures, or from the margins of representation to its centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Class remains among the most persistent and, until recently, least examined structures of the UK’s creative and cultural industries. It shapes who makes media, whose stories are told, how audiences are imagined and addressed, and which cultural forms are accorded value. Yet the category itself is in transition. Precarious work, the decline and reinvention of public service media, and the rise of new modes of production and circulation have all unsettled inherited accounts of what class is and how it is experienced and represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We welcome contributions from across media, film, television, cultural and communication studies, sociology, history and adjacent fields, as well as from practitioners. Topics might include, though are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n