[Commlist] CFP 2nd British Popular Culture(s) Conference

*British Popular Culture(s) Conference, 9-11th July 2026, Falmouth, 
Cornwall, UK. *
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*For those interested in applying for the conference, the deadline for 
abstracts is this Friday, 30th January 2026. *
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We invite individual abstracts for papers, performances, spoken word 
pieces, and short films (no longer than 20 minutes in length), as well 
as themed panels (no longer than 60 minutes in length). We also welcome 
ideas for further creative content such as exhibitions and workshops 
that can be integrated into the event through conversations with the 
conference team.

Please submit an abstract no longer than 300 words, five keywords and a 
short bio (including contact details) 
to, (_britishpopularculture /at/ falmouth.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(britishpopularculture /at/ falmouth.ac.uk)>_ by *January 30th 2026* . All 
enquiries to be directed to the British Popular Culture email address.
Further information on the CFP and confirmed speakers can be found on 
our website and below.
_https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/projects/british-popular-cultures-network 
<https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/projects/british-popular-cultures-network>_
Following the success of this year’s inaugural conference, we want to 
continue fostering the breadth of scope in topics and speakers by 
creating an inclusive space for participants to come together to share, 
discuss, and develop ideas and practices which challenge assumptions, 
focus research and generate new thinking. The conference is open to 
researchers, academics, PhD students, practitioners, artists, 
curators, archivists and activists working in and across all areas of 
British popular culture and cognate disciplines and utilising various 
methodologies and multi/trans disciplinary frameworks.
There will again be a public-facing day hosted by The Cornish Bank, a 
grassroots music venue and community arts space in Falmouth. Confirmed 
participants are Cornish filmmaker BAFTA Award winning, Mark Jenkin 
director of /Bait /(2019), /Enys Men/ (2022) and forthcoming /Rose of 
Nevada/ (2025), and Welsh-Cornish musician and Welsh music prize winner, 
Gwenno, whose output includes, Cornish language album /Tresor/ (2022) 
and /Y Dydd Olaf/ (2014) and /Le Kov/ (2018).
We have been approached by Intellect Publishing with regards to a 
‘Handbook on British Popular Culture(s)’ and we will be inviting 
selected papers delivered at this year’s and the 2026 conference to be 
included in the handbook.
*Confirmed speakers for 2026: *
We are happy to announce Jez Collins, founder and director of the 
Birmingham Music Archive C.I.C, Professor Abigail Gardner, University of 
Gloucestershire and Professor Oli Mould, Royal Holloway University of 
London, will be joining the conference this year. Further information 
can be found on our web pages.
More events to be confirmed.

Possible areas of interest to include, but not limited to: 
  
Advertising 
Architecture 
Art 
Board Games and Pastimes 
Comedy 
Comics 
Costume 
Dance 
Design 
Fashion 
Film 
Gaming
Illustration 
Journalism 
Literature 
Media 
Music 
Performance 
Poetry 
Pubs 
Sport 
Television 
Video Games 
Festivals and Events 
Politics and popular culture 
Cultural policy 
Popular culture and democracy 
Popular culture and social justice 
Popular culture and environmental crisis 
Popular Culture and inequality 
Pedagogies of Popular Culture 
Popular Culture and the REF 
Popular Culture in/and Education 
Gender, class, sexuality, race 
Alternative scenes and practices, DIY culture. 
Popular culture industries 
Emerging modes 
Regional, local, and national cultural and creative economies 
National popular culture in a global context 
Space, place, tourism 
Consumerism 
Capitalism, Co-option and Commodification 
Colonial and postcolonialism 
Precarity and Sustainability 
Activism 
Celebrity 
Celebrity Activism and Dissent 
Archives, curation, programming 
Cultural thinkers 
Digitalisation and digital technologies 
AI and technological impacts 
The Popularisation of Folk Cultures 
Please submit an abstract no longer than 300 words, five keywords and a 
short bio (including contact details) 
to, (_britishpopularculture /at/ falmouth.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(britishpopularculture /at/ falmouth.ac.uk)>_ by *January 30th 2026* . All 
enquiries to be directed to the British Popular Culture email address.



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