[Commlist] Call for Papers: Starring Asia: a Three-Day International Conference on Asian Stardom and Celebrity

*Starring Asia: a Three-Day International Conference on Asian Stardom 
and Celebrity*

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*Date: *2-4 December 2019

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*Venue: *Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

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*Conference and Event Organisers: *Shenshen Cai (Swinburne University of 
Technology), Glen Donnar (RMIT University), Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash 
University), Vikrant Kishore (Deakin University), Sean Redmond (Deakin 
University), Jian Xu (Deakin University)

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*Key date: *150-250 Word Abstracts due by 5 May 2019**

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*A selection of the best conference papers will be published in a 
confirmed Special Edition of /Celebrity Studies/ in 2021*

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In this three-day conference we will explore the varied ways through 
which stardom and celebrity emerges in and across Asia. We understand 
Asia as a geographical location and a geopolitical set of interfaces, 
both interconnected and divided by a number of distinct National 
imaginaries and transnational vectors. Stardom and celebrity is 
understood to be a central part of the Asian attention economy; wrapped 
up in questions of representation and identity, democratic and demotic 
articulations; and utilised in various nationalist and transnational 
discourses. The relationship between binaries, core and periphery, major 
and minoritarian cultural forms will also be addressed.

The questions that energise this call for paper are:

/What does stardom and celebrity mean in Asian regions? How //has it 
been //conceptualized? /

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/What impressions, economies and desires does it elicit? What problems 
and concerns does it provoke?/

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/What is its complex, diverse and multifarious relationship to Western 
experiences and practices, and global celebrity culture more generally?/

Alongside the conference will be a *free* *public screening event* which 
will include the showing of four seminal ‘star vehicle’ films: from 
China, Japan, India, and South Korea. Each film will be introduced by a 
leading screen expert and will be followed by an industrial panel with 
leading star figures from those industries.

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*Topics to be addressed, complicated and critiqued could include:*

/Theorizing Stardom and Celebrity in Asian regions – textual and 
contextual approaches and provocations/

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/National star and celebrity case studies/

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/Digital Asian celebrity cultures/

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/Asian political celebrity/

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/Asian star and celebrity fandom/

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/Asian global care ambassadors/

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/Do-good Asian stars/

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/Marketing Asian stardom and celebrity/

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/Online Asian celebrity/

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/Attention economies/

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/Regulating desire – patriarchy, sexuality, religion/

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/Asian star brands /

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/The Asian celebrity influencer/

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/DIY Asian celebrity /

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/East to the West, the West to the East: transnational star passing /

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/Race and ethnicity in the Asian star and celebrity context /

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/Asian pop stars and belonging/

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/Asian star and celebrity aesthetics/

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/National and nationalist star Asian bodies /

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/Empirical research on Asian stars and celebrities /

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/Trans-Asian pop stars and fandom/

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/Queer and transgendered Asian celebrities/

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/Asian celebrity-turned-activists/

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/Asian celebrities and public diplomacy/

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*150-250 word abstracts*for individual paper presentations or *750 word 
pre-constituted panel abstracts* should be sent as a *Word document* to 
(_s.redmond /at/ deakin.edu.au) <mailto:(s.redmond /at/ deakin.edu.au)>_ by *5 May 2019*

For enquiries, please contact any of the organisation committee members:

Glen Donnar (_glen.donnar /at/ rmit.edu.au) <mailto:(glen.donnar /at/ rmit.edu.au)>_

Shenshen Cai (_scai /at/ swin.edu.au) <mailto:(scai /at/ swin.edu.au)>_

Jian Xu (_j.xu /at/ deakin.edu.au) <mailto:(j.xu /at/ deakin.edu.au)>_

Vikrant Kishore (_vikrant.kishore /at/ deakin.edu.au) 
<mailto:(vikrant.kishore /at/ deakin.edu.au)>_

岩渕功一(_koichi.iwabuchi /at/ monash.edu) <mailto:(koichi.iwabuchi /at/ monash.edu)>_

Sean Redmond (_s.redmond /at/ deakin.edu.au) <mailto:(s.redmond /at/ deakin.edu.au)>_


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