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CALL FOR PAPERS
Another World of Popular Entertainments International Conference, 12-14 June 2013, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Another World of Popular Entertainments is hosted by the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music, convenors Gillian Arrighi, Victor Emeljanow
Conference Website: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/conference/another-world-of-popular-entertainments/
Despite the vibrant, complex, and ubiquitous nature of popular entertainments, the field has suffered from a lack of sustained academic attention. Nevertheless, popular entertainments have a global reach and a transnational significance at odds with the fact that the meaning and definition of both ‘popular’ and ‘entertainment’ remain widely contested. After the success of the first Popular Entertainments International Conference (2009) the convenors are issuing a call for papers for a second conference, inviting participants from a range of complementary disciplines: theatre and performance studies, health, history, psychology, visual culture and music as well as performing arts curators and archivists to engage in the analysis as well as the celebration of popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective
The conference will explore, but not necessarily be confined to, such issues as:
• the role of popular entertainments in community and personal well-being
• spaces and spatiality of the popular
• popular entertainments and tourism, travel and leisure
• popular entertainments in a mediatised culture
• circulation, exchange and transmission: cosmopolitanism, trans-nationalism and mobility
• censorship, surveillance, regulation and control
• tradition, memory and nostalgia
• ‘the popular’ reinvented
• popular audiences
• audience / spectator agency
• historiography of the popular
• popular entertainments and the archive: presence and absence
• nation-building, national identity, and popular entertainments
• spectacle and celebration
• popular science and history
• skills and their transmission: the practices of the popular
• economics of the popular
• risky business: violence, cruelty, aggression, risk and danger
• performing the popular
Abstracts of papers to be considered should be submitted to the convenors electronically by no later than FRIDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2013: Gillian Arrighi: Gillian.Arrighi@newcastle.edu.au
Victor Emeljanow: Victor.Emeljanow@newcastle.edu.au. Abstracts accepted for the conference will be published in hard copy and electronically.
Participants will be invited to submit their papers for publication in the peer-reviewed e-journal Popular Entertainment Studies (www.newcastle.edu.au/journal/popular-entertainment-studies).
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