[Commlist] CFP: Extended deadline: No culture is ‘low’ culture

*Call for Papers - No culture is ‘low’ culture*

*One day peer conference for students*

*Bangor **University*

*16^th April 2019*

Culture which was traditionally excluded from academia has found its way 
into scholarship in recent years. Screen studies, media studies and 
popular culture are now considered by many to be legitimate lines of 
academic enquiry. However, students within these disciplines still have 
to fight against prejudice towards supposedly ‘low’ culture. Finding 
courses and postgraduate supervisors, securing funding for research, 
having conference papers received with interest and discussing projects 
with colleagues can all be challenging. Furthermore, the tendency of 
research into culture to be interdisciplinary creates further challenge, 
in that students are required to know and cite scholarship across a 
wider range of areas than they might have encountered prior to 
undertaking their projects. Traditional school and department structures 
at universities can make this difficult.

This conference aims to bring together current students conducting 
research within the areas of screen and media studies and popular 
culture, giving them the opportunity to present and discuss their 
research with their peers. The conference will facilitate the exchange 
of ideas across disciplines, enable students to gain experience 
presenting at a conference and allow students to make contacts with 
peers who are likely to be their academic colleagues in the future. The 
conference also aims to show that topics which are considered by some to 
be beneath scholarship can be studied rigorously and can contribute to 
academia.

Papers will be 20 minutes in length. Proposals are invited from students 
only. Topics may include but are certainly not limited to:

All aspects of film, television and other screen studies

All aspects of media studies

Fandom

Online fame

Cult franchises, e.g. MCU

Inter-disciplinary studies involving traditional academia and popular 
culture, e.g. historical fiction on TV

Marketing aesthetics

Meta-studies about the study of ‘low’ culture itself

Abstracts should be 300 words in length and be accompanied by a short bio.

Please submit proposals by 17^th February 2019 to Emma Buchanan at 
(rspa98 /at/ bangor.ac.uk) <mailto:(rspa98 /at/ bangor.ac.uk)>. Speakers will be 
informed by the end of February, when registration for the conference 
will open.

There will be a chance to write up your paper for inclusion in a 
publication.

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