CFP “Life-Writing and Celebrity”
“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...
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Call for Papers – Mediated Autoethnography: Connecting the Personal and the Popular A special issue of The Popular Culture Studies Journal, co-edited by Jimmie Manning and Tony Adams. The Popular Culture Studies Journal invites submissions for a 2015 theme issue that will explore connections between autoethnography and popular culture. In addition to full-length manuscripts, the editors are also open to receiving shorter commentaries on method, practice, and/or theory. Drawing from Carolyn Ellis’s articulation, autoethnography is scholarship involving “research, writing, story”...
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Call for Presentations Living Life in Public: Exploring the Private Lives of Celebrities The Celebrity Project: 4th Global Meeting Tuesday 28th July – Thursday 30th July 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom From Dr Jackie Raphael, IDP Steering Group and CMCS Advisory Board Member Call for Presentations: Celebrities are “well-known” individuals who either by choice or by chance have achieved renown or infamy outside of personal and professional circles. Despite complaints that celebrities routinely make of the inconveniences of fame, many devote considerable...
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CFP: Consuming/Culture: Women and Girls in Print and Pixels Keynotes: Prof. Angela McRobbie and Prof. Feona Attwood http://openbrookes.net/consumingculture/ @PrintAndPixels 5th-6th June 2015 Submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to consuming.culture.conference@gmail.com by 1st October 2014. Keynote Speakers: Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. Her unparalleled contribution to the study of gendered media spans 4 decades: from her seminal 1978 study of teen magazines, Jackie: an ideology of adolescent...
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