Report from the Pop Line: On the Life and Afterlife of Popular

¡Buenos días a todos! Aquí os dejamos un nuevo call for papers que tiene muy pero que muy buena pinta. Ideal para todos aquellos interesados en los estudios culturales, la cultura popular, los medios de comunicación, etc.

A ver si nos vemos por allí!

CALL FOR PAPERS

CECC – The Research Centre for Communication and Culture announces:

3rd Graduate Conference in Culture Studies

December 3-4, 2012

Faculty of Human Sciences – Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon

Report from the Pop Line: On the Life and Afterlife of Popular

At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, popular culture finds itself at a crossroads: has the concept been drained of its meaning because of its overwhelming popularity? After the euphoria around the popular, what afterlife can be expected from it? Should we still be discussing the popular as opposed to high and folk culture? And where and how do pop art forms intersect with the current notion of the popular? This conference wishes to address the complexities surrounding the debate around the notions of both pop and the popular and discuss the possibilities of their afterlife.

Papers are welcome on the topics listed below, amongst others:

§  Popular Culture in Theory

§  Life and Afterlife of Popular Culture

§  Popular, Power and Politics

§  Popular Culture: Globalization, Centres and Peripheries

§  Material Culture

§  Popular Arts

§  Celebrities and Fans: The Dynamics of Popularity

§  Representation, Mediation and Mediatisation of the Popular

§  Cultures, Subcultures, Scenes and Tribes

§  Pop and Popular: Overlap, Dissemblance and Divergence

Confirmed keynote speakers:

§  John Hutnyk (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

§  Luísa Leal de Faria (Catholic University of Portugal)

Speakers should be prepared for a 20-minute presentation followed by questions.

Please send a 300-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note (100 words), to email popline2012@gmail.com by July 15th, 2012.

Proposals should list paper title, name, institutional affiliation and contact details.

Successful applicants will be notified by July 31^st, 2012.