[ecrea] CFP: Report from the Pop Line: On the Life and Afterlife of Popular, December 3-4 2012 Lisbon

CALL FOR PAPERS

CECC – The Research Centre for Communication and Culture announces:

3rd Graduate Conference in Culture Studies

December 3-4, 2012

Faculty of Human Sciences – Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon

Report from the Pop Line: On the Life and Afterlife of Popular



At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, popular 
culture finds itself at a crossroads: has the concept been drained of 
its meaning because of its overwhelming popularity? After the euphoria 
around the popular, what afterlife can be expected from it? Should we 
still be discussing the popular as opposed to high and folk culture? And 
where and how do pop art forms intersect with the current notion of the 
popular? This conference wishes to address the complexities surrounding 
the debate around the notions of both pop and the popular and discuss 
the possibilities of their afterlife.

Papers are welcome on the topics listed below, amongst others:

§ Popular Culture in Theory

§ Life and Afterlife of Popular Culture

§ Popular, Power and Politics

§ Popular Culture: Globalization, Centres and Peripheries

§ Material Culture

§ Popular Arts

§ Celebrities and Fans: The Dynamics of Popularity

§ Representation, Mediation and Mediatisation of the Popular

§ Cultures, Subcultures, Scenes and Tribes

§ Pop and Popular: Overlap, Dissemblance and Divergence



Speakers should be prepared for a 20-minute presentation followed by 
questions.

Please send a 300-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note 
(100 words), to email (popline2012 /at/ gmail.com) by July 15th, 2012.


Proposals should list paper title, name, institutional affiliation and 
contact details.

Successful applicants will be notified by July 31st, 2012.



For more information, please find attached the Call for Papers.








Sónia Pereira

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Assessoria Científica do Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura

Faculdade de Ciências Humanas

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Palma de Cima

1649-023 Lisboa

Tel.: (+351) 217 214 018, ext. 3143

E-mail: (sonia.pereira /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt)





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