Call for Papers

[D. I. Szlawieniec-Haw]

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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

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.
Since the late-nineteenth century class-based prejudices in Western culture
have championed the superiority of art and literature over the dubious and
fleeting pleasures of ‘entertainment.’ Similarly, the term ‘popular’ has
carried pejorative connotations, indicating something common and outside
the conventional and highbrow productions of the purpose-built theatre
house or concert hall.

After the success of the first Popular Entertainments International
Conference (2009) the convenors are 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 at newcastle.edu.au
Victor Emeljanow: Victor.Emeljanow at newcastle.edu.au. Those accepted for the
conference will be published in hard copy and electronically.

Conference details can be accessed at:
www.newcastle.edu.au/conference/another-world-of-popular-entertainments

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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