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Routledge and Deakin University present the...

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Inaugural Celebrity Studies Journal Conference

Sponsored by the Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention (CMII)

Conference Details

When: 12 - 14, December, 2012
Where: Deakin University, Burwood, Melbourne Australia
Deadline for abstracts: March 5th 2012 (500 words, plus a 50 word biography)
Successful abstracts will be notified by: 6th April 2012
Enquiries/abstracts to: celebritystudies@gmail.com

Keynote Speakers

	Professor Richard Dyer Kings College, University of London Research interests include; entertainment and representation and the relations between them as well as currently more specifically music and film (including melodrama), Italian cinema (especially in its popular forms) and gay / lesbian / queer cultures.
	Professor Christine Holmlund President SCMS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Christine Holmlund, a professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Cinema Studies Program, recently was elected president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), the foremost international organization in film studies. Her six year term of office begins July 1, 2009. Her duties include working with the American Council of Learned Societies and co-organizing the society's 50th anniversary conference to be held March 2010 in Los Angeles.
	Professor David Marshall Deakin University My research interests have focused on two areas: the public personality (which includes studies of celebrities, stars, public leaders and moments of fame and infamy); and the study of new media and the various forms of communication that have become elemental to contemporary life through new media.
	Associate Professor Susan Murray New York University Research interests include: social and industrial histories of the media, visual culture, television studies, and the interrelationships between various media systems. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Visual Culture, Cinema Journal, Television and New Media as well as numerous anthologies. Murray is the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom (Routledge, 2005) and the coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (NYU Press, 2004; second edition, 2008) with Laurie Ouellette. Current projects include a history of early color television (1928-1965) and an edited volume on the history of amateur media.
	Professor Graeme Turner University of Queensland Graeme Turner is one of the leading figures in cultural and media studies in Australia and internationally. His research has covered a wide range of forms and media - literature, film, television, radio, new media, journalism, and popular culture. He has published 22 books with national and international academic presses, with the most recent being Ordinary People and the Media: The Demotic Turn (Sage, 2010) and What's Become of Cultural Studies? (forthcoming, Sage). A past president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and convenor of the ARC-funded Cultural Research Network (2006-2010), Graeme Turner has had considerable engagement with federal research and higher education policy. He is only the second humanities scholar to serve on the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. His ARC Federation Fellow project is an international comparative study of the role television plays in the post-broadcast, digital environment.

Registrations

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NOTE: The Cocktail Reception is FREE however for catering purposes please make sure to answer the question on the registration form to indicate your attendance - "Will you be attending the Cocktail reception?" this is a mandatory field and the system will not let you proceed without answering it.
Date: Monday 12 December
Time: 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Symposium Convenors

Associate Professor Sean Redmond I research in the areas of stardom and celebrity; genre studies, and science fiction cinema in particular; film authorship; film sound; film and affect; Asian Cinema; and whiteness studies. I edit the journal Celebrity Studies, short-listed for the best new academic journal 2011.

Dr James Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Television Studies. His work focuses on digital television as well as TV fame. He is currently the Principal Investigator on a 2-year AHRC grant, multiplatforming public service broadcasting (AH-H018522-2), which examines the role independents and multiplatform productions play in the future of PSB. He is the author of Television Personalities: Stardom and the Small Screen (Routledge, 2010) and the editor (with Niki Strange) of Television as Digital Media (Duke University Press, 2011) and (with Tom Brown) Film & Television After DVD (Routledge, 2008). His work has been published in Screen, Cinema Journal, Convergence, New Review of Film & Television, and Celebrity Studies Journal.

Conference Program

Program will be uploaded in 2012

Tourism Information

Accommodation

Near Deakin University Burwood Campus - event venue

Punt Hill Serviced Apartments Burwood

The Tudor Box Hill

Clarion Hotel on Canterbury

Melbourne CBD

Punt Hill Little Bourke

Novotel Melbourne on Collins

Medina Grand Melbourne

Quest on William

Hotel Grand Chancellor Melbourne

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Contact

Associate Professor Sean Redmond
Associate Professor in Media and Communication
School of Communication and Creative Arts
Faculty of Arts and Education
Melbourne Burwood Campus
Tel: +61 3 924 43931
Email: s.redmond@deakin.edu.au

Registration Enquiries

Terri-ann Varga
Conference and Seminars Officer
Faculty of Arts and Education
Deakin University, Burwood Campus,
221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Vic, 3125
Phone: +61 3 924 46824
Email: t.varga@deakin.edu.au

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