[Commlist] 'No culture is low culture' conference

‘No Culture is Low Culture’: One-Day Peer Conference for Postgraduate 
Students

Focus: Screen studies, media studies and popular culture

April 16, 2019, 9am-6pm

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 brings 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, as well as more experienced academics. The papers will show that 
topics which are considered by some to be beneath scholarship can be 
studied rigorously and can contribute to academia.

Papers will deal with a wide range of popular culture topics, including 
film and television studies, music, gaming and gender studies.

All papers will be delivered by students.

To register please visit:

http://noculture.bangor.ac.uk/registration.php.en


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