CFP Sex and Celebrity PGR Workshop
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:...
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 MoreCall for Papers: Fame-inism: Feminism and Global Celebrity Culture
Call for Papers: Fame-inism: Feminism and Global Celebrity Culture Special Issue of Celebrity Studies Guest Editors: Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, University of Salford, UK Natasha Patterson, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Camilla A. Sears, Thompson Rivers University, Canada For this special issue of Celebrity Studies, the editors are seeking proposals on the topic of feminism and celebrity culture. In recent years, contemporary celebrity culture has broached the topic of feminism, and increasingly, celebrities – men and women – are expected to make very public subscriptions...
Read MoreCFP: Be your selfie: identity, aesthetics and power in digital self-representation
CFP: Be your selfie: identity, aesthetics and power in digital self-representation From Guest Editors Laura Busetta and Valerio Coladonato Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network This issue of Networking Knowledge will investigate the practice of the “selfie”, one of the most significant phenomena of self-representation in the digital mediascape. Selfies are a notable example of how visual technologies, in conjunction with social media platforms, are reshaping traditional notions such as subjectivity, community, the public sphere and celebrity, among others This...
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