CFP AR/VR: Deepfakes: Celebrity
From Feona Attwood PORN STUDIES CALL FOR FORUM PIECESOur Forum section is a space for pieces that are shorter than the usual academic article, usually somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000 words, and they can take a variety of forms, including short articles, reports, interviews, commentaries and roundtable discussions. Forum pieces are peer reviewed. Previous Forum topics have included porn panics and public health; Ireland, porn and sex education; feminist porn; fashion and porn; porn and music; porn in the classroom, and surveillance and porn. We are currently seeking Forum...
Read MorePorn Studies CFP Porn on the Couch: Sex, Psychoanalysis, and Screen Cultures/Memories
The following CFP might be of interest to media & celebrity studies scholars examining adult films and stardom Porn Studies, special issue, Porn on the Couch: Sex, Psychoanalysis, and Screen Cultures/Memories In a letter he penned to his friend Wilhelm Fleiss, dated August 1, 1899, Sigmund Freud made an uncanny observation: “I am accustoming myself to the idea of regarding every sexual act as a process involving four persons.” What could he have meant by this suggestive remark regarding how a sexual act mediates desire between subjects and objects? How might we expand upon it as...
Read MoreCFP: Consuming/Culture: Women and Girls in Print and Pixels
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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