The Fifth Annual Conference, co-organised by Doug Field and Oliver Harris, was held in Manchester, hosted by The Wonder Inn, a city centre community arts venue. Reflecting the conference’s two central themes of music and science, there were keynote talks from CP Lee, a legend of Manchester’s music scene of the 1970s and ’80s, and from Andrew Lees, Professor of Neurology at UCL. From America, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, and the UK, over 100 scholars, students, poets, musicians, filmmakers and publishers attended or participated, including performances by Libby Houston and Pete Brown, The Band of Holy Joy and Eric Andersen.
EBSN member Todd Swindell’s report of the conference:
http://www.beatdom.com/esbn-2016-report/#more-5478
We would like to thank the following for generously sponsoring the Fifth Annual Conference of the EBSN:
Arts Council, England; The British Association for American Studies; The John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester; Faculty of Humanities Public Engagement Award, University of Manchester; University of Manchester, English and American Studies; Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Cities@Manchester.
Final Programme:
Professor Andrew Lees
Lunch with Eva Correa and Estibaliz Encarnacion Pinedo
Oliver Harris with Viviane
Lunch, including Joost Damen
Lunch scene
Franca Bellarsi presenting
Viviane, Véronique Lane and Peggy Pacini
Lunch, including Peggy Pacini, Peter Hogg, Kurt Hemmer
CP Lee
Pete Brown, Simon Warner, Roger Bygott, Andrew Barker, CP Lee, Simon Morrison
Café scene, including Nat Ogle and Giordano Goffi
Audience, including Peggy Pacini and Steve Finbow
Andrew Lees Keynote
Video by Jan Schoof