[Commlist] Transnational Pop Culture Research Cluster event

  Transnational Popular Culture as a Catalyst for Social Change Workshops


  Sheffield Hallam University, 22-23 June 2020


    https://transnationalpopculture.weebly.com/


    Call for Contributions

Changing minds changes lives. Popular culture has enormous discursive 
power which creates meaning through storytelling and performance, and 
can thus be used as a political tool for social change. Arts and 
Humanities put the human at the centre of analysis and provide a 
methodological framework for cultural, social and economic 
critique.**These workshops aim to forge interdisciplinary links between 
those working in disparate disciplines such as Arts, Humanities, Social 
Sciences, Law, Health and Wellbeing. We will consider popular culture as 
a key mediator in the transnational understanding of power and a 
significant interlocutor in social change. If we consider popular 
culture one of the most influential agents of value construction, then 
cultural artefacts can be considered a powerful tool to guide viewers 
through the moral climate of their time, attesting to a collective 
process of working through social issues. Social and economic benefits 
of this research are instrumental as well as intrinsic. Raising 
awareness, creating knowledge and changing attitudes towards 
transnational cultures improves social and intellectual capital of 
individuals, social groups and organisations. Brexit and its aftermath 
make this knowledge creation a strategic imperative for the country.

The Creativity and Culture Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam 
University is renowned for its world-leading research and thus provides 
the ideal context. The workshops are run by the following colleagues:

Esther Johnson, 
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/esther-johnson

Anja Louis, 
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/anja-louis

Ana-Maria Sanchez, 
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/ana-maria-sanchez-arce

Amy Wigelsworth, 
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/amy-wigelsworth

The workshops will cover all forms of Popular Culture (e.g. comics, 
fiction, film, performing arts, and television) and/or cultural 
practice. Themes may include but should not be limited to:

·Climate

·Globalisation

·Health

·Identity politics

·Interculturality

·News Media

·Migration

·Multiculturalism

·Neoliberalism

·Otherness and Othering (BAME, disability, gender, LGBTQ+)

·Place-making

·Postcolonialism

·Security

*Organiser:*

Dr Anja Louis, Reader in Cultural and Intercultural Studies, Languages 
and Cultures, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, 
(a.louis /at/ shu.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.louis /at/ shu.ac.uk)>


    Workshop Formats

*Audio-visual presentations* (e.g. short film or film clips with Q&A). 
Please indicate the screening length. We aim to programme a couple of 
1-hour slots dedicated to audiovisual presentations. We suggest a 
screening limit of 30 minutes.

*Individual presentations*

A 20-minute presentation by an individual author, with 10-min for Q&A

*Panel presentation*

Three thematically connected papers. All contributions consist of a 
20-minutes presentation by the authors, with an extra 30-minute slot 
allocated for discussion at the end.

*Round tables* (innovative formats are welcomed).

The usual format is 3 speakers with 10 minutes each, and 30 minutes Q&A.

*Posters* A0-size academic posters, which will be displayed during a 
dedicated poster session. Please note that posters should be printed by 
individual contributors.

Proposals should include an abstract under 350 words and a bio of no 
more than 100 words. Panel proposals (three papers) should combine the 
abstracts and bios of speakers in one document, and should also include 
a short rationale and panel title. Poster proposals should include an 
abstract of no more than 250 words and a 100-words speaker bio.

*All proposals should be submitted to the organiser: 
**(a.louis /at/ shu.ac.uk)* <mailto:(a.louis /at/ shu.ac.uk)>*. *

Deadline: 29 March 2020

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