10-11 July 2014, University of Sussex
Conference welcome by Pam Thurschwell followed by Paolo Hewitt reading from The Sharper Word: A Mod Anthology
Mods and Quads: International perspectives
Christine Feldman-Barrett (Griffith University, Australia): Beyond Brighton, Beyond Britain: Quadrophenia and the Post-1960s Mod Diaspora
Suzanne Coker: Quad to Run: on Quadrophenia and Born to Run
Simon Wells: TBA
“You’re watching movies trying to find the feelers”: Quadrophenia as Cult Film
Dolores Tierney (University of Sussex) :Quadrophenia as a ‘new’ cult musical
Stephen Glynn (De Montfort University): “Dressed Up Better Than Anyone”: Quadrophenia and the Cult Film Experience
Andy Medhurst (University of Sussex): From Soho down to Brighton: Capital, Coast and Quadrophenia
The Who in History
Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton): Class, Youth and Dirty Jobs: Exploring continuity and change in post-war England through Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia
Sam Cooper (University of Sussex): Heat Wave: The Who, the Mods and the Cultural Turn
Ben Winsworth (University of Orleans): “Who (the Fuck) are You?”: Out with the In Crowd in Quadrophenia (1973)
Reading Quadrophenia
Tom Wright (University of Sussex): 5:15: Mods, Mobility and the Brighton Train
Pam Thurschwell (University of Sussex)”You were under the impression that when you were walking forward, you’d end up further onward, but things ain’t quite that simple”: Quadrophenia‘s segues and historical impasse
Brian Baker (Lancaster University): The Drowning Machine: the sea and the scooter in Quadrophenia
Keynote: James Wood (Harvard University)
Symposium sponsored by the Centre for Modernist Studies, the Centre for Visual Fields, the Centre for Research into Childhood and Youth, University of Sussex, and the Interdisciplinary Network for the study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change
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