CFP Negotiating Tragedy at University of Texas at Dallas
CALL FOR PAPERS From CMCS member and UT Dallas Graduate Student Senator Diana Miller University of Texas at Dallas Arts & Humanities Graduate Student Association utd.gsa@gmail.com February 24, 2018 Theme: Negotiating Tragedy Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2017 Keynote Speaker: Karen Kelsky, “The Professor is In” The Arts & Humanities Graduate Student Association of the University of Texas at Dallas will hold its tenth annual graduate symposium on February 24th at the UT Dallas campus in Richardson, TX. The RAW: Research, Art, Writing conference is organized by and for...
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From Brian Jay Jones SAVE THE DATE! BIOGRAPHY BEYOND BORDERS COLLOQUIUM ON AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN BIOGRAPHY NOVEMBER 5 2016 In collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Oxford, housed at Wolfson College and directed by Professor Dame Hermione Lee, BIO will host a Colloquium on American and European Biography, to be held on Saturday, November 5 2016. With the aim of promoting conversations about similarities and differences and exploring the question of whether we can push the boundaries of biography, we have arranged four roundtable discussions under these rubrics: BIOGRAPHIES...
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“Life-Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections” Proposals are invited for the “Life-Writing and Celebrity” panel at the Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) 22-26 Aug 2016, Galway, Ireland Co-convenors: Sandra Mayer, University of Vienna, Austria, sandra.mayer@univie.ac.at Julia Lajta-Novak, King’s College London, UK, julia.lajta-novak@kcl.ac.uk In recent years, life-writing and celebrity studies have separately evolved into vibrant and innovative areas of Humanities research, but the connections between these fields have, so far, been...
Read MoreCelebrity Chat 2016 Call for Short Films and Videos
2016 CALL FOR SHORT FILMS and VIDEOS Bridging Gaps: What are the media, publicists, and celebrities selling? Red Room, Four Points by Sheraton Barcelona Diagonal Barcelona, Spain July 3rd – 5th, 2016 Are you a researcher, filmmaker, broadcaster, videographer or screen image artist critically exploring celebrity culture and journalism in media? Receive an exclusive screening opportunity of your work and eligibility for $100 CMCS screen award at the Celebrity Chat (CC) Screening session in Barcelona, Spain! The screening will offer an international platform for creative researchers,...
Read MoreCFP Oberto Conference 2015: Opera and Celebrity
Oberto Conference 2015: Opera and Celebrity Oxford Brookes University Tuesday 8 September 2015 From the castrati of the 18th century and the prima donnas of the 19th century to the star singers of the present day, opera has long been associated with celebrity culture. Although operatic celebrities were never just famous for being famous, many performers – and more recently also some composers and directors – were fêted or notorious for more than their artistic achievements. From the earliest days of public opera, accounts of singers’ love affairs, spectacular feuds or personal antics...
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