08:30-09:15

ARRIVAL AND REGISTRATION

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09:15-09:20

WELCOME

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09:20-10:15

KEYNOTE

Chair: Richard Dhillon (Warwick)

 

Steven Gerrard (Leeds Beckett)

Carry On Films and Their Production History

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10:15-10:20

Comfort break

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10:20-11:20

PANEL 1: Histories

Chair: Steven 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.

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11:20-11:35

Break

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11:35-12:55

PANEL 2: Genres

Chair: Rick Wallace (Warwick)

 

Rhys Davies (De Montfort)

A Technical, Aesthetic and Narrative Analysis of the Carry On films.

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

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12:55-13:35

Lunch

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13:35-14:55

PANEL 3: People

Chair: Julie Lobalzo Wright (Warwick)

 

Leanne Weston (Independent)

"I know my casting. I’m the silly frigid fat girl": Myth, Legacy, and the Performing Body in Hattie

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

Chris Ashford (Northumbria)

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

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14:55-15:00

Comfort break

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15:00-16:20

PANEL 4: Politics

Chair: Chris O'Rourke (Warwick)

 

Gareth Smith (Cardiff)

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

Ruth Adams (King's College London)

Carry On Feminism?

Paul Wells (Loughborough)

‘What a big one! I’ve never seen one as big as that before’: Carry On, Cartoons, and the Class Context

Simon Dodi (Royal School of Speech and Drama)

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

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16:20-16:35

Break

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16:35-17:55

PANEL 5: Representations

Chair: Hannah Hamad (Cardiff)

 

Philip Watkinson (Lancaster)

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

Lorna-Jane Richardson (East Anglia)

Carry On Archaeology: Getting to the Bottom of Things

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).

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17:55-18:00

Closing remarks