2.00 – 2.30 Registration and Welcome

2.30 – 4.00 Session 1: Foundations
- Jens Jäger (Cologne University): To See is to Believe? Images and Social History.
- Andreas Gestrich (GHI London): Visual Representations of Poverty and Idleness in the Early Modern Period.

4.00 – 4.45 Session 2: The Arts
- Ute Wrocklage (University of Hamburg): Representations of the Unemployed in German Art before the First World War.

4.45 – 5.15 Coffee Break

5.15 – 7.00 Session 3: Film
- Matt Perry (University of Newcastle): Visualising Unemployment through the Aesthetics of Capitalist Modernity: Case Studies in Films from the 1930s.
- Steve Cannon (University of Sunderland): ‘Social Realism’ and Unemployment: in Contemporary European Cinema.

7.30 Conference Dinner

Saturday, 13th December

9.00 – 10.30 Session 4: Photography
- Jeannette Gabriel (College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York): Pink Slips on Parade: Building the Unemployed Movement through Images of Everyday Protest, 1935-1939.
- Antoine Capet (University of Rouen, France): Photographs of the British Unemployed in the Inter-War Years: Representation or Manipulation?

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.30 Session 5: Cartoons
- Matthias Reiss (University of Exeter): Dragon Slayers and Dole Queues: Unemployment and the Unemployed in German Political Cartoons, 1974 to 1998.
- Nicholas Hiley (University of Kent at Canterbury): “If we only had a job, we could take a holiday”: Unemployment in British Political Cartoons of the last Hundred Years.

12.30 – 1.00 Final Comment and Discussion
- Christopher Burgess (People’s History Museum, Manchester)

1.00 Buffet Lunch and Departure