BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T103116Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180628 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180630 SUMMARY:The Paranoid Style Revisited: Postwar American Cultural Politics and The Argosy Magazine UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}mhe-jf0xxua y-psvfmd DESCRIPTION:The Paranoid Style Revisited: Postwar American Cultural Polit ics and The Argosy Magazine \nJohn Rylands Library\, Manchester\, 28-29 June 2018\n\nHalf a century ago Richard Hofstadter published his influen tial essay ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics\,’ in which he ident ified ‘heated exaggeration\, suspiciousness and conspiratorial fantasy’ as a recurrent feature of the nation’s political life. Hofstadter’s thes is has in subsequent decades been at the centre of a rich and interdisci plinary scholarly discourse that has been attentive to the cultural poli tics of the Cold War period as read especially through the lens of gende r\, but also those of science and technology\, mass media\, and corporat e capitalism\, amongst others. \n\nIn our current political moment Hofst adter’s call for critical reflection on the genesis\, mechanisms and con sequences of the paranoid style beckons with renewed urgency. The aim of this conference is to generate such reflection by engaging with and sho wcasing a rare research resource recently acquired by the University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library: The Argosy Magazine. Founded in the 1 880s as a youth magazine in the 1880s and switching to an adult fiction formula at the turn of the century\, The Argosy was relaunched in 1946 a s ‘The Complete Man’s Magazine.’ \n\nForged from an eclectic mix of rugg ed frontier individuality and outdoor virility\, anxiety about the suppo sedly emasculating threats of suburban domesticity and white-collar mana gerialism\, a desperation to fulfil the norms of consumerist well-being projected by corporate advertising\, and a paranoia about lurking extern al and internal threats to American liberties\, The Argosy serves as a l argely untapped archive for probing the volatile mood of postwar cultura l politics that prompted Hofstadter’s essay. This conference aims to bot h raise awareness of this collection for individual researchers and to f oster cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional networks to re-examine the varied cultural landscape of American ‘paranoid style.’\n\nDay 1: Th ursday 28 June \n\n10-10.30: Coffee and Registration\n\n10.30-10.45: Wel come\n\nSession 1: 10.45-12.45: American Media Styles\n\nElizabeth Frate rrigo (Loyola University Chicago)\, ‘Live Life to the Hilt’: Playboy and Cold War America \n\nTimothy Melley (Miami University\, Ohio)\, Some Pa ranoid Styles in Cold War Narrative\n\nIan Scott (University of Manchest er)\, Hofstadter and Hollywood: American Movies and the Paranoid Style\n \n12.45-1.30: Lunch\n\n1.30-2.00: Ian Burney (University of Manchester)\ , The Argosy comes to Manchester\n\nSession 2: 2.00-4.00: Anxiety and A ffluence \n\nTom Bishop (University of Lincoln)\, Selling Anxiety: Nucle ar Shelters and the Male Consumer \n\nShane Hamilton (University of York )\, Supermarkets as Weapons in the Cold War Farms Race\n \nMarcia Holmes (Birkbeck\, University of London)\, Hidden Persuaders and Subliminal Ad vertising\n\n4.00-4.20: Coffee\n\n4.20-6.00: Film Screening\, Seconds (1 966)\, introduced by Ray Macauley (University of Manchester) \n\n6.00-7. 30: Conference Reception\n\nDay 2: Friday 29 June\n\nSession 1: 9.00-11. 00: Cold War Sexualities\n\nAndrew Fearnley (University of Manchester)\, Cold War Freud: Theories of Human Aggression and Violence\n\nPeter Hega rty (University of Surrey)\, Wasps of the American West: Reading Nationa l Narratives across Kinsey’s Entymology and Sexology\n\nIan Magor (Birkb eck\, University of London)\, Crossing Sexual Barriers: Assimilation and Miscegenation in Postwar American Film\n\n11-11.30: Coffee\n\nSession 2 : 11.30-1.30: Human Sciences and American Subjects\n\nMartin Halliwell ( University of Leicester)\, Paranoia and the Therapeutic Revolution\n\nCh ris Hamlin (University of Notre Dame)\, Making the American Psychopath\n \nSusan Lindee (University of Pennsylvania)\, The Paranoid Style in Cold War Genetics\n\n1.30-2.30: Lunch\n\nSession 3: 2.30-4.30: Paranoid Styl es and Conspiratorial Fantasy \n\nGreg Eghigian (Pennsylvania State Univ ersity)\, Alien Agendas: Influence Imagined in the World of UFOs and Ext raterrestrial Contact \n\nAndrew McKenzie-McHarg (Cambridge)\, Psycholog izing History: The Emergence and Reception of The Paranoid Style\n\nChar lie Williams (Birkbeck\, University of London)\, From modified human age nts to modifying human agency: John Lilly and the paranoid style in Amer ican neuroscience \n\n4.30-5.00: Closing Comments & Discussion\n\n\nBOOK ING INFORMATION\n\nDelegates should register their attendance using eSto re: https://estore.manchester.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/the-john-ryla nds-library-jrl/the-paranoid-style-revisited/the-paranoid-style-revisite d-postwar-american-cultural-politics-and-the-argosy-magazine\n\nFees:\nE arly bird rate (until 1 May 2018): £90 (£60 for students/unwaged)\nStand ard rate (after 1 May 2018): £110 (£75 for students/unwaged) STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:John Rylands Research Institute and Library\, 150 Deansgate\, Ma nchester\, Gtr Manchester\, M3 3EH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR