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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">With a growing awareness of class-based inequality, Brexit, and a new willingness to discuss working-class issues, we are pleased to announce that the next conference of the Working-Class
Studies Association will be held in the UK in September 2019. In its fifteen year history, this will be the first time the Working-Class Studies Association will hold its conference outside its heartland of the USA. This conference aims to build and consolidate
work being carried out currently in the UK and Europe with the USA and elsewhere in the world.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Working-Class Studies as a field seeks to bring together academics, activists, artists and others interested in working-class issues and themes. As an interdisciplinary field, it brings
together sociologists, literary scholars, anthropologists, geographers, historians, cultural studies scholars, poets and economists amongst others. We welcome proposals for individual papers, panels and other forms of representation.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">All presenters at the 2019 Conference are required to become members of the Working-Class Studies Association. The WCSA attempts to accommodate all income levels with adjusted rates for
membership. For more information, please visit:<span> </span><a href="https://wcstudiesassociation.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px">https://wcstudiesassociation.wordpress.com/</a></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Conference themes will include:<br>
• Class and Education<br>
• Deindustrialisation, Work and Class<br>
• Nostalgia, Memory, Heritage and Loss<br>
• Class Cultures and Identities<br>
• Working-Class Health and Embodiment<br>
• Place, Belonging and Class<br>
• Class and its Intersections<br>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Submitting a proposal:</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">• Abstracts should be no more than 200 words in a standard Word document.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">• The proposals should identify strand themes into which their presentation will fit.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">• They should also have clear contact information for each presenter and indicate technology needs, if any.</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Please submit your proposed paper, panel, or other ideas via the conference email<span> </span><a href="mailto:wcsaconference@kent.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px">wcsaconference@kent.ac.uk</a></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Notification of acceptance: 15th April 2019</span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">For updates, more information, or to get in touch: Email:<span> </span><a href="mailto:wcsaconference@kent.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px">wcsaconference@kent.ac.uk</a></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px">Twitter: WCSA @wcstudies / Kent organising team @DIndustrialKent</span></span></div>
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