08:30-09:15

ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION

09:15-09:20

WELCOME

09:20-10:20

KEYNOTE

Chair: Richard Dhillon (Warwick)

 

Steve Gerrard (Leeds Beckett)

Carry On Films and Their Production History

10:20-10:25

Comfort break

10:25-11:45

PANEL 1: Histories

Chair: Steve Gerrard (Leeds Beckett)

 

James Martin Charlton (Middlesex)

Talbot Rothwell’s Vision of History Carrying On

James Chapman (Leicester)

Carry On Budgeting: The economic and Fiscal Contexts of the Carry On Series

Kevin Geddes (Edinburgh Napier)

Carry On Grubb: Domestic Representations of Parody in the Connected Comedy of Food and History in the Carry On Franchise.

Lorna-Jane Richardson (East Anglia)

Carry On Archaeology: Getting to the Bottom of Things

11:45-12:05

Break

12:05-13:05

PANEL 2: Genres

Chair: Rick Wallace (Warwick)

 

Stephen Glynn (De Montfort)

Carry on Sitcom: Connections Between the Carry On Franchise and the British Sitcom Spinoff Genre

David Cottis (Middlesex)

Carry On Kitchen Sink: The Early Carry Ons as Realist Drama

Reece Goodall (Warwick)

Reevaluating Carry On Screaming’s (1966) Role in the Horror Parody Canon

13:05-14:05

Lunch

14:05-14:45

PANEL 3: People

Chair: Julie Lobalzo Wright (Warwick)

 

Adam Endacott (Independent)

Kenneth Williams: The Changing Face of Kenneth and the Carry On Films

Gary Brannan (York)

You will be amazed!: The Frankie Howerd Archive and the Carry Ons

14:45-14:50

Comfort break

14:50-15:50

PANEL 4: Queerness

Chair: Chris O'Rourke (Warwick)

 

Chris Ashford (Northumbria)

Law, Homosex(uality) and the Carry On Films: Legal History, Cinematic Comedy and the Lives of Hawtrey, Howerd, Williams and Clary

Simon Dodi (Royal School of Speech and Drama)

Carry On Drag: Cross-Dressing and the Queer Legacies of the Carry On Franchise

Gareth Smith (Cardiff)

‘O! The Attractiveness of Obscure Rudeness’: Camp, Class and Kenneth Williams in the Carry On Films

 

15:50-16:10

Break

16:10-17:10

PANEL 5: Representations

Chair: Richard Dhillon (Warwick)

 

Philip Watkinson (Lancaster)

Stereotyping and the Politics of Appearance: A Postcolonial Analysis of Carry On Abroad (1972)

Michael Lawrence (Sussex)

Bidets and Budgerigars: Encounters with the Exotic in Carry On At Your Convenience (1971)

Daniel Davies (Arts University Bournemouth)

"England expects, this day, every man to have a nibble". Navigating the Ebb and Flow of Post-Colonial Masculinity, Hierarchy, Sexuality, and National Identity on Board the SS Happy Wonderer in Carry On Cruising (1962).

17:10-17:15

Closing remarks