CFP Making Stars: Biography and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity
By Kristina Straub and Nora Nachumi Making Stars: Biography and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity A celebrity is not a person, exactly, but a construct established through the public discourse and representation that we now think of as celebrity culture. During the long eighteenth century, biography was key to an earlier form of celebrity culture that anticipates what we experience as modern celebrity. This volume proposes to explore the relationship between biography and celebrity in the long eighteenth century. In inviting essays, we keep that relationship open to definition: are...
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Shared by Kerstin Hacker URL: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BKI317/phd-studentship-opportunity-in-artists-at-home-self-representation-and-the-construction-of-celebrity-1870-1915/ PhD Studentship Opportunity in Artists at Home: Self-Representation and the Construction of Celebrity, 1870-1915 University of Surrey Qualification type: PhD Location: Guildford Funding for: UK Students, EU Students Funding amount: £14,777 Hours: Full Time Placed on: 6th June 2018 Closes: 21st June 2018 ★ View Employer Profile This collaborative doctoral project, supervised...
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From Daniel Dove Call for Papers: Death and Celebrity Wednesday 6th June 2018, University of Portsmouth Keynote Speakers: Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce, University of York Dr Samantha Matthews, University of Bristol ‘Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil’ (John Milton) ‘Fame is a food that dead men eat’ (Henry Austin Dobson) This one-day symposium seeks to interrogate the role of death in the construction, negotiation and perpetuation of celebrity identity. For the ancients, true fame was necessarily posthumous, but in modernity, too, there remains an enduring...
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Expressions of Interest & Call for Papers: Sex and Celebrity Workshop Thursday 28th June 2018, University of Portsmouth Keynote Speaker: Professor John Mercer, Birmingham City University This one-day PGR Workshop seeks to interrogate the relationship between sex and celebrity – the role of sex in the construction, negotiation and perpetuation of celebrity identity. As well as academic papers and roundtable discussion, this event will also include PGR professionalization sessions. This free PGR workshop asks how sex and sexuality form, create and change our relationship to celebrity:...
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CFP: Desecrating Celebrity, Fourth International Celebrity Studies Conference Wednesday 27th June to Friday 29th June 2018, at Sapienza University of Rome. Routledge, Celebrity Studies Journal, and Sapienza, University of Rome are pleased to announce the fourth International Celebrity Studies conference. Keynote Speakers: Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary, University of London Misha Kavka, University of Auckland Douglas Kellner, UCLA Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad Martin Shingler, University of Sunderland Deadline for individual and panel abstracts: November 6th 2017 Desecrating...
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