To mark the publication of the new Penguin Modern Classics edition of A Clockwork Orange: The Restored Edition, MMU’s Institute of Humanities and Social Science Research and the International Anthony Burgess Foundation are pleased to present Day of the Droogs, an afternoon-evening event focussing on the critical views surrounding A Clockwork Orange and its legacies, including new perspectives on cinema, gang culture and young masculinity.

Visit http://www.hssr.mmu.ac.uk/hip/day-of-the-droogs/ for more information and to book your place.

Speakers will include:

Andrew Davies (Senior Lecturer in Modern British social history, Liverpool) with a guest lecture on nineteenth century gangs and A Clockwork Orange;

Berthold Schoene (Professor of English, MMU) with a paper on angry young men of the 1950s/60s and 1990s;

Peter Kramer (Senior Lecturer in Film, Television and Media Studies, East Anglia) on Kubrick’s adaptation;

Hannah Smithson (Reader in Criminology, MMU) and Rob Ralphs (MMU) with a paper on gang culture;

Melanie Tebbutt (Reader in History, MMU) on boyhood in the interwar years;

Nicholas Bentley (Senior Lecturer in English, Keele) with a paper on subcultures;

Steven Miles (Professor in Sociology, MMU) with a paper on consumption, urbanism and youth;

Xavier Aldana Reyes (Research Fellow in English, MMU) on screen violence.