[ecrea] Call for Papers: Posgraduate Conference: No culture is ‘low’ culture

*Centre for Film, Television, and Film Studies*

*Bangor University*

*Call for Papers - No culture is ‘low’ culture*

*One day peer conference for post-graduate students*

*_Tuesday 16 April 2018_*

Culture which was traditionally excluded from academia has found its way 
into scholarship in recent years. Screen studies, media studies and 
popular culture are now considered by many to be legitimate lines of 
academic enquiry. However, students within these disciplines still must 
fight against prejudice towards supposedly ‘low’ culture. Finding 
courses and postgraduate supervisors, securing funding for research, 
having conference papers received with interest and discussing projects 
with colleagues can all be challenging. Furthermore, the tendency of 
research into culture to be interdisciplinary creates further challenge, 
in that students are required to know and cite scholarship across a 
wider range of areas than they might have encountered prior to 
undertaking their projects. Traditional school and department structures 
at universities can make this difficult.

This conference aims to bring together current post-graduate students 
conducting research within the areas of screen and media studies and 
popular culture, giving them the opportunity to present and discuss 
their research with their peers. The conference will facilitate the 
exchange of ideas across disciplines, enable post-graduate students to 
gain experience presenting at a conference and allow students to make 
contacts with peers who are likely to be their academic colleagues in 
the future. The conference also aims to show that topics which are 
considered by some to be beneath scholarship can be studied rigorously 
and can contribute to academia.

Papers will be 20 minutes in length. Proposals are invited from 
postgraduate and undergraduate students only. Topics may include but are 
certainly not limited to:

·All aspects of film, television and other screen studies (e.g. games 
and gaming)

·All aspects of media studies

·Fandom

·Online fame

·Cult franchises, e.g. MCU

·Inter-display studies involving traditional academia and popular 
culture, e.g. historical fiction on TV

·Marketing aesthetics

·Meta-studies about the study of ‘low’ culture itself

Please send 300-word abstracts and a short biographical note to Emma 
Buchanan, ((rspa98 /at/ bangor.ac.uk) <mailto:(rspa98 /at/ bangor.ac.uk)>) by _1^st 
February 2019._


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