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1) Subject: Digital Forum for the Study of Popular Culture

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Date: 17 Mar 2014
From:  randa aboubakr <randaaboubakr at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Digital Forum for the Study of Popular Culture

Dear Colleague,

We are happy to announce the launching of Forum for the Study of Popular
Culture (FSPC), a website aiming to promoteresearch in the field of popular
culture, regionally and internationally. Below is an excerpt from About Us:

"The massive political upheavals witnessed not only throughout the Arab
region, but also in various parts of the world for the past few years have
been strongly allied with widespread and dynamic social and cultural
transformations. These transformations, as is evident, engage untraditional
actors who operate rather independently of state institutions, and who are
intent on reclaiming both the public space and their own means of
representation, which authoritarian regimes had long confiscated.
One side of this representation is reflected in the field of popular
cultural practices, and is manifest in the outpouring of popular and
alternative cultural and artistic production, such as citizen journalism,
graffiti, community music, street cinema, digital forms of expression, to
name only a few. This forum aims at promoting research in the field of
popular culture regionally and internationally. For this end, it seeks to
create a network that would facilitate the exchange of expertise among
scholars in the field of popular culture, and to encourage and sponsor
young researchers from Egypt and the Arab region who opt for studying this
under-researched field."

For more details, we are inviting you to view the Forum's website at

www.popular-culture.org

and to communicating with us at this e-mail address:

fspc at popular-culture.org

We look forward to hearing from you, and to collaborating with you on
meaningful and rewarding research.

Cordially,

Randa Aboubakr (Forum Coordinator)
Nihal Nour (Forum Assistant Coordinator)
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Randa Aboubakr
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Faculty of Arts- Department of English
Cairo University
Orman
Giza- 12613
Egypt
Work Tel.:  (+202) 3567- 2536
Priv. Cell.: (+2) 0122 344 1334
E.mail: randaaboubakr at yahoo.co.uk
http://cairo.academia.edu/RandaAboubakr

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