[ecrea] Inaugural Celebrity Studies Conference – CFP

Inaugural Celebrity Studies Conference – CFP

*When:* December 12-14^th , 2012

*Where:* Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

*Deadline for abstracts:* March 5^th 2012 (500words, +50 word bio)

*Successful abstracts notified by: *6^th April

*Enquiries/abstracts to: *(celebritystudies /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(celebritystudies /at/ gmail.com)>

*Conference Website: * www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/scca/events/celebrity/


/Sponsored by the Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention, Deakin
University./


Routledge and Deakin University are pleased to announce the inaugural
/Celebrity Studies /conference. The conference organised by Sean Redmond
and James Bennett, will be the first major international,
inter-disciplinary forum for discussion and analysis of the growing
field of celebrity studies. Drawing on the strength of the / CSJ/
editorial team, the conference welcomes submissions from a broad range
of disciplines that generate new ways of thinking and understanding
celebrity: from film, television, digital media and theatre studies
through to sociology, politics and business studies.

The first inaugural / Celebrity Studies Conference/ will be themed on
the question of *‘celebrity studies now'*. This subject will run through
our plenaries and form a strand running throughout the conference.
However, we invite abstracts for individual 20 minute papers or
pre-constituted panels of 3 x 20minute papers on any topic in celebrity
studies.

*Confirmed keynote speakers:*

*·** **Richard Dyer (Kings College, University of London)*

*        Christine Holmlund (President SCMS, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville)*

*·** **P. David Marshall (Deakin University)*

*·** **Susan Murray (New York University)*

*·** **Graeme Turner (University of Queensland)*

A special issue of the best papers from the conference will be published
in /Celebrity Studies/ in 2013. Possible topics include, but are not
limited to:

· The celebrity studies canon

· The value of fame

· Method: how to do celebrity studies

· Star and celebrity images

· Pop stardom

· National cinema, international stars

· The TV Personality

· Celebrity and performance

· Digital platforms

· DIY celeb

· Ordinary celebrity

· Austerity and celebrity

· American Quality TV

· Entrepreneurial celebrity

· Olympic celebrity

· Celebrity fandom

· Literary celebrity

· Queer celebrity

· The celebrity ambassador

· Fame damage

· Celebrity affect, emotion

· Celebrity and gender

· Anti-celebrity

· The phenomenology of celebrity

· Cult stardom and celebrity

· Charisma and celebrity//

· Pathology and celebrity

· Toxic celebrity

· Celebrity and news

· The sexualisation of celebrity

· Celebrity art/artists

· Race, ethnicity and celebrity

· Celebrity and persona

· Porn stars

· Sport and celebrity

· Gaming and celebrity culture

· Political fame


*Deadline for abstracts: March 5th 2012 (500 words, plus a 50 word
biography)*

*Successful abstracts will be notified by: 6th April 2012*

*Enquiries/abstracts to: (celebritystudies /at/ gmail.com) *

*
*

Sean Redmond

James Bennett



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