12:00

Registration and Refreshments

Westlain House 113

Keynote - Gareth Palmer, University of Salford, UK

“Lifestyle Media and Calibration”

14:00

“Chicken in the Basket to Poultry Politics: TV Chefs and their influence on British Food Culture”
Gilly Smith, University of Brighton, UK

“Please Sir Can I do some More?  Jamie Oliver and the engineering of a national lifestyle”
Helen Powell & Sylvie Prasad, University of East London, UK

Panel 2 - Family, Gender and Nation
Chair -  Irmi Karl

“Extreme Makeover Home Edition: Spatial Governmentality, the Production of Extreme Homes and the Reproduction of Ideal Citizens”
Bree Kessler, City University of New York Graduate Center, USA

“Home makeover shows as stages of improved ordinariness”
Anne Soronen, University of Helsinki, Finland

“Two Point Four Children – ‘Parenting programmes’ as the guardians of traditional family values”
Janice Kearns, University of Lincoln, UK

"Screen-births: Revisiting Extreme Makeover from a "trans" perspective
Tobias Raun, Aarhus University, Denmark

10:30

Mayfield House 129

“Selling an Entrepreneurial Lifestyle: The Television Worker Onscreen and Off”
Lisa W. Kelly and Raymond Boyle, University of Glasgow, UK

“Fame can be bad for you: who looks after ‘ordinary’ contributors before, during and after taking part in lifestyle television programmes?”
Lesley Blaker, University of Salford, UK

“Remembering Ourselves, Viewing the Others: Participant audiences of historical reality TV”
Ruth McElroy & Rebecca Williams, University of Glamorgan, UK

“Digging for victory: Sustainability, lifestyle TV, and the use of the past”
Rebecca Bramall, University of Brighton and Sarah Baker, University of East London, UK

13:15

Panel 4 – Sexuality, Normativity and Pleasure
Chair – Irmi Karl

Mayfield House 129

“C’mon Girlfriend’:  Suspended sexuality, friendship and how they can make you look good naked”
Orly Klein, Jayne Raisborough and Hannah Frith, University of Brighton, UK

“Disdain, Disgust and Guilty Pleasure: Reading Trinny & Susannah”
Feona Attwood, Sheffield Hallam University and Samantha Holland, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

“The Queer Images of Lifestyle Television – Case Studies in the Production of Heteronormativity and Homonormativity on RTV”
Jan Pinseler, Lüneburg University, Germany

15:15

“A Landscape with Food: Travel, Taste(s) and Terroir with Rick Stein”
David Dunn, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK

“Travel Series as TV Entertainment: Genre characteristics and touristic views on foreign countries”
Anne Marit Waade, Aarhus University, Denmark

Keynote - Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn, Roehampton University, UK

“Recession, what recession?: House and property programming in the economic downturn”

16:45

17:15

Finish