London calling

Posted on | February 18, 2006 | No Comments

My life officially begins again today – yesterday saw me rushing off to the grants office to resubmit my ARC after ‘lay’ readers decided my budget was wrong, then I stuffed 600 pages of double spaced, twice printed book manuscript into a courier pack. GOOD BYE BOOK, hello weekends. I’ve emerged from deadline land to realise it’s just 6 weeks until I go to this, the first ever symposium on the work of Richard Hoggart (he’s the author of The Uses of Literacy, a book so influential it led Penguin books to give him the money to set up the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the 60s). He’s the focus of a chapter in my book, so I’ve been asked to join a bunch of other Australians heading over for the event, including my boss, Graeme Turner, the newly anointed Distinguished Professor John Hartley, and other members of the Cultural Research Network’s ‘literacies’ node. After the conference I’m planning to spend a few days in London, meeting my publisher, catching up with some expatriates and seeing some sights. Where should I stay, I wonder? Do any of you readers have the local goss?

Category: Research, Travel

Comments

Leave a Reply