[ecrea] CFP: Sex and Celebrity PGR Workshop

The following CFP is for a free PGR/ECR Workshop on 'Sex and Celebrity' 
at the University of Portsmouth.


Along with academic papers and roundtable discussions, the event will 
include a number of professionalization sessions on publishing and the 
REF etc.


Please feel free to share this CFP with anyone that may find it of interest.


Abstracts and expressions of interest are due 18th May!


Thank you in advance and best wishes,

Danielle


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*Expressions of Interest & Call for Papers:*

*Sex and Celebrity PGR Workshop*

*Thursday 28^th  June 2018, University of Portsmouth*

Keynote Speaker:

Professor John Mercer, Birmingham City University

This one-day PGR Workshop seeks to interrogate the relationship between 
sex and celebrity – the role of sex in the construction, negotiation and 
perpetuation of celebrity identity. As well as academic papers and 
roundtable discussion, this event will also include PGR 
professionalization sessions.

This free PGR workshop asks how sex and sexuality form, create and 
change our relationship to celebrity: how do sex and 
celebrity intersect? What roles do sex stories, exposés and scandals 
have in the formation and/or devaluing of celebrity? Is desire an 
inherent part of celebrity culture? How do attitudes to sex and 
celebrity change across time, cultures and societies? What role does the 
media play in forging links between sex and celebrity? How do film and 
literature interrogate and promote the relationship between sex, fame 
and celebrity? What are the effects upon celebrity of sexual infidelity, 
revelations and even sex crimes?

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

·Sex and the creation of celebrity

·Desire and celebrity; the sexualisation of celebrity

·Celebrity, sex and gender; LGBTQIA and celebrity

·Celebrity sex experts, advisors and campaigners

·Sex, celebrity and the media

·Sex, infamy and notoriety

·Celebrity affairs, infidelity and indiscretions

·Sex, crimes and trials

·Celebrity sex tapes, sex scandals and confessions

·Celebrity and pornography

·Sex and celebrity in literature, film, art, etc.

The organisers welcome proposals for 15 minute papers that consider 
‘celebrity and sex’ in their many forms, and from a variety of 
historical and disciplinary perspectives.

Please send 200-word abstracts, with a 50-word biography to 
(ccs /at/ port.ac.uk) <mailto:(ccs /at/ port.ac.uk)> by Friday 18^th  May.


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