Routledge and Deakin University present the...
Inaugural Celebrity Studies Journal Conference
Sponsored by the Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention
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Call For Papers
Routledge and Deakin University, Melbourne are pleased to announce the inaugural Celebrity Studies Journal conference. The conference will be the first major international, inter-disciplinary forum for discussion and analysis of the growing field of celebrity studies. Drawing on the strength of the CSJ editorial team, the conference welcomes submissions from a broad range of disciplines that generate new ways of thinking and understanding celebrity: from film, television, digital media and theatre studies through to sociology, politics and business studies.
The inaugural Celebrity Studies Journal will be themed on the question of 'celebrity studies now'. This subject will run through our plenaries and form a strand running throughout the conference.
However, we invite abstracts for individual 20 minute papers or pre-constituted panels of 3 x 20minute papers on any topic in celebrity studies.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
| The celebrity studies canon | The value of fame | Method: how to do celebrity studies |
| Star and celebrity images | Pop stardom | The TV Personality |
| Celebrity and performance | National cinema, international stars | Digital platforms |
| DIY celeb | Ordinary celebrity | Austerity and celebrity |
| American Quality TV | Entrepreneurial celebrity | Olympic celebrity |
| Celebrity fandom | Literary celebrity | Queer celebrity |
| The celebrity ambassador | Fame damage | Celebrity affect, emotion |
| Celebrity and gender | Anti-celebrity | The phenomenology of celebrity |
| Cult stardom and celebrity | Charisma and celebrity | Pathology and celebrity |
| Toxic celebrity | Celebrity and news | The sexualisation of celebrity |
| Celebrity art/artists | Race, ethnicity and celebrity | Celebrity and persona |
| Porn stars | Sport and celebrity | Gaming and celebrity culture |
| Political fame |
Deadline for abstracts and panels: March 5th 2012
Individual papers: 500words, plus 50 word bio
For 3x person panels: panel title, lead/contact person; 3x 500 word abstracts, plus 3x individual 50 word biographies
Successful abstracts will be notified by: 6th April 2012
Enquiries/abstracts to: celebritystudies@gmail.com
Postgraduate Grants Announcement: we are pleased to announce the provisional award of 2 x AUS$1,000 travel bursary grants to the best postgraduate abstracts submitted to the conference. Applicants interested in being considered for the bursary should clearly indicate their postgraduate standing in their bio line.
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
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Professor Graeme Turner University of Queensland Graeme's research interests are largely in Australian media and popular culture but his work on celebrity has been international in focus. His current research project, on talkback radio, is coming to a conclusion over the next year and his Federation Fellowship is on post-broadcast television, examining the relations between television and national communities around the world. He is one of the key figures in the development of cultural and media studies in Australia and has an outstanding international reputation in the field. |
Registrations
Registration for this 3 day conference will open April 2012.
Delegate fees will be kept as low as possible to enable wide and international participation.
Student and early-bird discounts will apply.
Transport: Public transport - Metlink and Burwood campus maps
Symposium Convenors
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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. |
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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
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
