We invite individual papers and/or panels that build upon and/or adapt John Fiske’s scholarship and approach to contemporary ends, consider the reception of Fiske’s work, and assess the current and future utility of his work and other related scholarship for media and cultural studies. Paper and/or panel topics may address the impact and relevance of Fiske’s work in the following areas:

• Feminism
• Audiences and reception studies
• Cultural politics
• Race and culture
• Cultural studies in (inter)national contexts
• Textualities
• Popular pleasures
• Hegemony and resistance
• Cultural studies in the 1980s and 1990s
• Economic and cultural capital

Other topics are also welcome for consideration.

The deadline for submissions of a 500-word abstract for either an individual paper, or for each component of a pre-constituted panel, is 19 January 2010. Please include a one- to two-sentence bio for each contributor to a paper or panel. Conference organizers plan to publish an edited volume of collected papers from the conference. See conference website at http://www.fiskematters.com.