Thursday 22 June
Plenaries and A sessions will take place in the Trafalgar Hall; B sessions will take place in Room 1.06, which adjoins the Trafalgar Hall.
- 13:30 – 14:00
- Registration
- 14:00 – 15:30
- Paper Session A: The Nineteenth Century
- Paper Session B: Composing the Middlebrow
- 15:30 – 16:00
- Coffee
- 16:00 – 17:30
- Plenary: Origins and Pre-Histories
- 17:30 – 18:45
- Keynote: Richard Taruskin
- 18:45 – 20:00
- Reception
Friday 23 June
- 09:00 – 10:30
- Paper Session A: Elevating Popular Music
- Paper Session B: Amateurs and Professionals
- 10:30 – 11:00
- Coffee
- 11:00 – 12:30
- Paper Session A: Popularizing High Art
- Paper Session B: Weimar Germany
- 12:30 – 13:30
- Lunch
- 13:30 – 15:00
- Plenary: Cultural Geographies: The Middlebrow Beyond Anglo-America
- 15:00 – 15:30
- Coffee
- 15:30 – 17:00
- Paper Session A: Politics of the Middlebrow
- Paper Session B: Religion and Spirituality
- 17:00 – 17:30
- Coffee
- 17:30 – 18:45
- Keynote: Joan Rubin
- 19:00
- Speakers’ Dinner
Saturday 24 June
- 9:00 – 10:30
- Paper Session A: Luxe Pop
- Paper Session B: Middlebrow Canons
- 10:30 – 11:00
- Coffee
- 11:00 – 12:30
- Paper Session A: Technology
- Paper Session B: Aspiration and the Middle Class
- 12:30 – 13:30
- Lunch
- 13:30 – 15:00
- Paper Session A: Modernism
- Paper Session B: Contemporary Middlebrow
- 15:00 – 16:00
- Plenary: Middlebrow Musicology