[ecrea] Inaugural International Persona Studies Conference - call for papers

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*Inaugural International Persona Studies Conference
Tuesday 25th June to Wednesday June 26 2019, at Newcastle University, 
Newcastle, UK.*

*The Persona Studies journal and Newcastle University are pleased to 
announce the inaugural International Persona Studies Conference*

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*Keynote Speakers*

*Prof. P.David Marshall, Deakin University, Melbourne.*

*Prof. Anne Jerslev, University of Copenhagen.*

*Dr. Helena Bassil-Morozow, Glasgow Caledonian University*

*Dr. David Giles, University of Winchester.*

*Deadline for individual and panel abstracts: December 6th 2018*

*Persona Studies - a truly interdisciplinary field.*

Persona Studies - the examination of how the private and public self 
intersect to produce differing versions of identity - is a growing area 
of research. It incorporates, amongst others, studies of celebrity and 
other public figures such as politicians, professional persona across 
various fields, examinations of both real and fictional figures from 
history and in literature, the representation of persona by artists and 
in music and the influences of psychoanalysis, sociology and psychology. 
As the political, economic and social landscape of Western capitalist 
democracies shift, there has never been a more significant time to 
consider the presentation and publicisation of the self and its 
socio-economic and cultural impacts.

Within and beyond mediatised spaces, the performance of persona has 
shaped how we understand ourselves and our place in the world. If we 
consider strategies and practices of self-performance and complex 
representations across and beyond media spaces, then persona is 
constantly negotiated by audiences and through every day interactions. 
In real life and online, multifaceted versions of self-identity emerge 
according to platform, place and position.

Newcastle University and the /Persona Studies /journal invite papers and 
panels which considers questions relating to these processes: what is 
persona and persona studies? How do public figures negotiate 
performances of their self-identity and their status in media spaces? 
What role to rituals, rules and rights play in persona performance? What 
role do audiences play in shaping persona? What set of communicative 
practices govern different kinds of persona? How do our social and 
psychological experiences shape our persona? What is the impact of 
persona on arts, culture, music or science?

The conference welcomes submissions from a broad range of disciplines: 
from media, culture and communication studies to sociology and 
psychology, politics, literary studies, economics, history, philosophy, 
medicine, law, business, art and more.

We invite abstracts for individual or pre-constituted panels of four 
papers on any topic related to the conference theme.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Persona as phenomenon • Political persona • Persona and representation 
• Persona and psychoanalysis • Celebrity persona • Networked persona 
•Journalism and persona • social media and persona • Historical persona 
• Literary persona • Fictional persona •Transgression, crime and persona 
• Professional persona • Queer persona • Business and corporate persona 
• Persona and fluidity • Persona and cinema • Persona and reality-TV  • 
Persona and audience • The parameters of persona • Persona and gender 
class, race, ethnicity • Marketing and persona • Persona and public 
relations • Exhibition and persona  • Persona and fandom • Persona, 
music and musicianship • Science and persona • The phenomenology of 
persona • leadership and persona.

*Deadline for individual and panel abstracts: December 6th, 2018*. 
*Submitted to: **(_personastudiesconference /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(personastudiesconference /at/ gmail.com)>_*

*Individual Abstracts: 250 words, plus a 50 word biography.**Panel 
Abstracts: 150-word overview, plus 4 x 250 word abstracts, and 4x 50 
word biography, plus name of lead contact.*

*Colleagues will be notified of decisions by: January 30th 2018*

*Please note the conference website is under development and will be 
available before final submission date.*

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