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After the success of the first Popular Entertainments International Conference (2009) the convenors have issued a Call for Papers for the 2013 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 should be submitted to the convenors electronically by no later than FRIDAY, 15 March 2013: Gillian Arrighi: Gillian.Arrighi@newcastle.edu.au
Victor Emeljanow: Victor.Emeljanow@newcastle.edu.au.
Registration opens 22 March, 2013
Conference 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) published twice a year in March and September.
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