Packing and Unpacking Culture: changing models of British Studies - Jarret David, Kowalewski Tomasz, Ridden Geoff (red.)

Keynote Speakers: Andrew Blake - Playing Past the Body: on the nature of performance in the information age Tadeusz Sławek - Unpacking the Stranger: what Cultural Studies are all about? David Jarrett - ''Those that Build them Again Are Gay'': gendered identities and revolutions in the head Shakespeare: Geoff Ridden - ''Carry this Island Home in his Pocket'': buying and selling Shakespeare Travel: Tadeusz Rachwał - Britannia Rules the Waves: on labour, dry biscuits, pumpkins and the sea Tim Youngs - Where Has All the Baggage Gone?: relabelling the nomad in contemporary travel writing and criticism Francis Curtis - British Maritime Discourses 1770- 1815: an evaluation of their cultural status in today's age of electronic navigation Multi-cultural: Mary Conde - Unpacked and Here to Stay: contemporary Indian women writers in Britain Neił McCaw - Articulating Irishness in British Cultural Studies Krzysztof Knauer - Wicked Games: identity, friendship, Cultural Studies and multicultural imagination Tim Prentki - Poles: a part in the global village Marta Wiszniowska - ...And Never the Twain Shall Meet: literature, cultural exchange and Europe at the tum of the century Literature: Małgorzata Glasenapp - She, He and Society: social roles and division of power in school stories for girls and boys Jopi Nyman - Remapping European Space: the case of Joseph Conrad Aneta Wojtasik - Literature and Oppression: the case of children's fiction Popular Culture: Michael D. Jardine - ''It's a Brazilian Asking for an Englishman's Shirt'': masculinity, national identity and the 1998 World Cup Agnieszka Książek - Images of Women in Relation to Mass Culture and Affluence in British ''New Wave'' Films: A Kind of Loving, Billy Liar and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Adam Locks - Arcadia Behind the Glass: The Avengers and English ethnicity Afterword (the Practice): John Simons - ''Very Interesting, But Not British Studies'': a brief field guide for consultants