[ecrea] CFP: World War I Media, Entertainments & Popular Culture Conference

We are inviting proposals for the World War 1: Media, Entertainments&  Popular Culture two-day conference that will take place on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd July 2015 at the People’s History Museum, Manchester, UK. The deadline for abstracts is 19 January 2015 (Monday). The conference is organised by the University of Chester, University of Salford, UCLAN and Manchester Metropolitan University. Please email a 300-word abstract (stating your name, email address and institutional affiliation) to:(c.hart /at/ chester.ac.uk).

Outputs:
A book of selected papers from the conference titled, World War I:  Media, Entertainments&  Popular Culture.  This will be a companion volume to our book World War II and the Media (2014).

A dedicated edition of Media, War&  Conflict (Sage Publications).

Exhibition and performances leading up to and during the conference at the People’s History Museum. We hope you can suggest materials (songs, film, photographs) to be included.

This conference aims to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine and discuss both contemporary and subsequent accounts, interpretations and uses of the First World War in terms of mass and popular media and entertainments.

We are inviting proposals for papers on any aspect of the Media, Entertainments and Popular Culture during and after the First World War.  Possible themes include:

Photography, films, newsreels
WWI celebrities

Contemporaneous press reportage

Wartime censorship

Oppositional/dissenting voices

Music hall performers

Wartime images

The popular press and WWI

Wartime and cultural memory 

Popular music
Sports
Pubs and clubs 

The war in popular fiction

Cartoons, Posters
Post 1918 popular uses of World War I themes.

Additional information is available on our website:http://ch5983.wix.com/ww12015conference.

Kind regards,
Vera

Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
Senior Lecturer in Journalism
Department of Media
University of Chester
Room CKW150, Kingsway Buildings
Chester, CH1 4BJ
Tel.: 01244 515 727
Email:(v.petkova /at/ chester.ac.uk)
Web:http://www.chester.ac.uk/media/staff/dr-v-slavtcheva-petkova

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