[ecrea] [CFP] Authenticating Celebrity: Celebrity Studies Journal Conference 2016

3rd International Celebrity Studies Conference: Authenticating Celebrity

June 28-30, 2016
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
http://celebritystudiesconference.com/

Routledge, Celebrity Studies Journal, and the University of Amsterdam are
pleased to announce the third Celebrity Studies conference. The conference
will take place in Amsterdam, June 28th-30th 2016, and will be organized by
Gaston Franssen, James Bennett, Hannah Hamad, Su Holmes, and Sean Redmond.

The 3rd International Celebrity Studies Conference will be themed on the
question of ‘Authenticating Celebrity’. This subject will run through our
plenaries and form a strand running throughout the conference.

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, literary,
digital media and theatre studies through to psychology, sociology,
politics, and business studies.

We invite abstracts for individual 20-minute papers or pre-constituted
panels of 3 x 20-minute papers on any topic related to the conference theme.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
• David Giles, University of Winchester
• Joke Hermes, University of Amsterdam/Inholland University of Applied 
Sciences
• Jo Littler, City University London
• Alice E. Marwick, Fordham University
• Ginette Vincendeau, King’s College London

A Special Issue of the best papers from the conference will be published in
Celebrity Studies in 2017. Stipends to help with conference costs will be
awarded for the best PhD abstracts submitted.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Celebrity and the experience of authenticity
• Sincerity and stardom
• Committed celebrity
• The phenomenology of fame
• Authenticating celebrity and gender, race, class, ethnicity
• Reality-tv celebrity
• Audience and affect
• Representations of talent and genius
• Fame in virtual reality
• Socializing celebrity
• Online authenticity
• Disingenuous and/or exposed celebrity
• True fans/anti-fans
• Trusting celebrity
• Gossip culture
• Celebrity hoaxes
• Celebrity facts, celebrity fictions
• Sport stars, performance and authenticity
• (In)sincerity and political celebrity
• Memory and celebrity authenticity.
• The will to truth: stories of the celebrity self
• Auto-ethnography and reflections of the real
• Fandom and the search for celebrity authenticity
• Celebrity pilgrimages
• Illness and celebrity
• Marketing authenticity
• Celebrity do-gooders and ambassadors
• Documenting the celebrity
• Rock idols and rebellion

Deadline for abstracts: November 6th, 2015 (250 words, plus a 50 word 
biography)
Successful abstracts will be notified by: December 11th, 2015

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

Best wishes,
Gaston
James
Hannah
Su
Sean

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