[ecrea] cfp Celebrity Studies Conference at Deakin University, Melbourne

Dear all,

A reminder that there is just two weeks until the CFP for the inaugural 
Celebrity Studies Conference at Deakin University, Melbourne (12-14 
December 2012), closes.

To encourage postgraduate applicants, we have announced the provisional 
award of 2 x AUS$1,000 travel bursary grants to the best postgraduate 
abstracts submitted to the conference. Applicants interested in being 
considered for the bursary should clearly indicate their postgraduate 
standing in their bio line.

Inaugural Celebrity Studies Conference – CFP
When: December 12-14th, 2012
Where: Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Deadline for abstracts: March 5th 2012 (500words, +50 word bio; for 3x 
person panels: panel title, lead/contact person; 3x 500 word abstracts, 
plus 3x individual 50 word biographies))
Successful abstracts notified by: 6th April
Enquiries/abstracts to: (celebritystudies /at/ gmail.com)
Conference Website: www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/scca/events/celebrity/

Sponsored by the Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention, Deakin 
University.

Routledge and Deakin University are pleased to announce the inaugural 
Celebrity Studies conference. The conference organised by Sean Redmond 
and James Bennett, will be the first major international, 
inter-disciplinary forum for discussion and analysis of the growing 
field of celebrity studies. Drawing on the strength of the CSJ editorial 
team, the conference welcomes submissions from a broad range of 
disciplines that generate new ways of thinking and understanding 
celebrity: from film, television, digital media and theatre studies 
through to sociology, politics and business studies.

The first inaugural Celebrity Studies Conference will be themed on the 
question of ‘celebrity studies now'. This subject will run through our 
plenaries and form a strand running throughout the conference. However, 
we invite abstracts for individual 20 minute papers or pre-constituted 
panels of 3 x 20minute papers on any topic in celebrity studies.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

· Richard Dyer (Kings College, University of London)

Christine Holmlund (President SCMS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

· P. David Marshall (Deakin University)

· Susan Murray (New York University)

· Graeme Turner (University of Queensland)

A special issue of the best papers from the conference will be published 
in Celebrity Studies in 2013. Possible topics include, but are not 
limited to:

· The celebrity studies canon
· The value of fame
· Method: how to do celebrity studies
· Star and celebrity images
· Pop stardom
· National cinema, international stars
· The TV Personality
· Celebrity and performance
· Digital platforms
· DIY celeb
· Ordinary celebrity
· Austerity and celebrity
· American Quality TV
· Entrepreneurial celebrity
· Olympic celebrity
· Celebrity fandom
· Literary celebrity
· Queer celebrity
· The celebrity ambassador
· Fame damage
· Celebrity affect, emotion
· Celebrity and gender
· Anti-celebrity
· The phenomenology of celebrity
· Cult stardom and celebrity
· Charisma and celebrity
· Pathology and celebrity
· Toxic celebrity
· Celebrity and news
· The sexualisation of celebrity
· Celebrity art/artists
· Race, ethnicity and celebrity
· Celebrity and persona
· Porn stars
· Sport and celebrity
· Gaming and celebrity culture
· Political fame


Deadline for abstracts: March 5th 2012 (individual abstracts 500 words, 
plus a 50 word biography; For 3x person panels: panel title, 
lead/contact person; 3x 500 word abstracts, plus 3x individual 50 word 
biographies)
Successful abstracts will be notified by: 6th April 2012
Enquiries/abstracts to: (celebritystudies /at/ gmail.com)

Sean Redmond
James Bennet



James Bennett
Senior Lecturer in Television Studies
Department of Media Arts
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham
TW20 0EX
Twitter: james_a_bennett
Ph: 01784 443 940
Fax: 01784 443832


----------------
ECREA-Mailing list
----------------
This mailing list is a free service from ECREA.
---
To unsubscribe, please visit http://www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist
---
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Postal address:
ECREA
Université Libre de Bruxelles
c/o Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences
CP123, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, b-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
----------------