From Dr Rebecca Braun @braunbraun4 and @AuthorsWorld An AHRC-funded project at Lancaster, Authors and the World, is exploring literary celebrity in upcoming events in March and July: Conference: Discourse on Literary Celebrity across Genres 12 & 13 March 2015, Lancaster University To register email Emily Spiers. How does literary celebrity manifest in different genres? To…
Networking Knowledge Journal Special issue: Exploring the Intersections of Fashion, Film, and Media Deadline submission Oct 27 CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue: Exploring the Intersections of Fashion, Film, and Media Journal: Networking Knowledge, Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate network Guest Editors Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén, Stockholm University. elizabeth.lunden@ims.su.se Natalie Snoyman, Stockholm University. natalie.snoyman@ims.su.se Since the…
“New ways ever free”: David Bowie, Landscapes & Heritage Symposium, December 2, 2016 Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France Station to Station. In the wake of Bowie’s passing, images and voices have multiplied to evoke the diverse landscapes of his work, from the musical styles to the characters he imagined to the many facets of a…
Call for Papers: “Performing Stardom”: New Methods in Critical Star Studies Friday 29th May, 2015 NoRMMA (Network of Research: Movies, Magazines, Audiences), University of Kent, UK NoRMMA invites proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on non-traditional approaches to star studies research. The one-day event will be held at the University of Kent on May 29th, 2015. Confirmed…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON (27 June, 2016) – Are public responses to Beyoncé feminism as politically daring as some of her performances are? While many media scholars, critics, and journalists have problematized her feminism, especially in relation to her recent album Lemonade, there is necessity for reading her cultural productions in celebrity feminism and…
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…
