[ecrea] CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Conference

We are pleased to announce that CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, in 
association with Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS), is 
hosting its first celebrity studies conference in New York City on 
August 30-September 1.  The conference is currently offering discounts 
to guests and journalists. You can now download the full program and 
register here: http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/nyc2017/ 
<http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/nyc2017/>**(Option C).

Registered guests are most welcome to display departmental information 
and publications that will support research interests in media and 
celebrity studies. For more information, contact (info /at/ cmc-centre.com) 
<mailto:(info /at/ cmc-centre.com)>

We are excited for the conference series and hope it supports research 
and journalistic interests of CULTSTUD-L members.  Read more in the 
50^th edition of the CMCS newsletter 
<http://mailchi.mp/55f27bec5fe9/august2017?e=9b4b89800a>.


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The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) is hosting an 
exclusive conference on celebrity academics and critics on August 
30-September 1 at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. 
The conference features keynotes Andrew Mendelson, P. David Marshall, 
and Tim Harper who will speak on the significance of celebrity studies 
and current trends in celebrity journalism, photojournalism, and 
journalism education in New York City.

*Andrew L. Mendelson* is currently the associate dean and a professor at 
the CUNY School of Journalism. Previously he was a faculty member in the 
department of journalism at Temple University in Philadelphia for nearly 
15 years, serving as department chair for the last eight. In his current 
role, he serves as the school’s chief academic officer, overseeing 
faculty, curriculum and student affairs. His opening talk titled 
Everyone’s a Critic: The Role of the Media Scholar in the Age of Instant 
and Pervasive Commenting will take place on August 31, 2017

*P. David Marshall *is a research professor and holding a personal chair 
in new media, communication and cultural studies at Deakin University, 
has published widely in two areas: the public personality/celebrity and 
new media culture. He has been a keynote speaker at many international 
conferences as well as interviewed for articles and many broadcast media 
programs from CNN, Fox News, BBC, and the ABC/Radio National to the 
Sydney Morning Herald, New York Times and the Toronto Star. His keynote 
talk titled Pandemic Mediatized Identity: Professional Personas as 
Public Intellectuals in the Social Media and “Presentational Media” Era 
will highlight latest trends in celebrity and persona studies on 
September 1, 2017.

*Timothy Harper *is a longtime journalist and author who has written a 
dozen books and helped many other people write and publish their books. 
Tim has also written more than 1,000 articles, including essays and 
op-eds, in publications as varied as Atlantic Monthly and airline 
magazines. He has taught at NYU’s and Columbia’s graduate schools of 
journalism, and is now a visiting professor and writing coach at the 
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. A lawyer, he is a member of the 
First Amendment Committee for the American Association of Journalists 
and Authors, for whom he leads panel discussions and workshops on 
reporting, writing and publishing. His featured workshop “Thoughtful 
Branding for Your Thinking” will be a significant contribution to 
celebrity journalism in New York City.

Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) is an international 
organization that helps coordinating academic research and media 
commentaries on fame. CMCS carries a pedagogical philosophy that 
inspires integration of high quality research in academic and public 
discourses in celebrity culture.  Using the critical lens of celebrity 
studies, CMCS facilitates academic and media partnerships to develop 
commentaries on fame and social change. For more information, visit 
www.cmc-centre.com <http://www.cmc-centre.com/>



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