Please post_CFP_ Another World of Popular Entertainments Int'l Conference

[Gillian Arrighi]

REMINDER and UPDATE 

Another World of Popular Entertainments
International Conference, 12-14 June 2013, University of Newcastle,
NSW, Australia, hosted by the School of Creative Arts

Abstract submission due date – 15 March, 2013
Registration opens - 22 March, 2013

To date, conference submissions have been received from researchers in
Australia, New Zealand, Nigeria, North America, South Africa, and the UK
on topics including:

colonial performance histories
circus
dance in contemporary media 
the complex role/s of popular entertainments in time of war
contemporary developments in archival research
jazz in the twenty-first century 
trans-gender impersonation
variety/vaudeville entertainments 
and the significance of various popular entertainments (dance, music,
theatre) within different African societies

After the success of the first Popular Entertainments International
Conference (2009) the convenors have issued a Call for Papers for the
2013 conference, 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 should be submitted to the convenors electronically
by no later than FRIDAY, 15 March 2013: Gillian Arrighi:
Gillian.Arrighi at newcastle.edu.au
Victor Emeljanow: Victor.Emeljanow at newcastle.edu.au. 

Registration opens 22 March, 2013

Conference 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.

Conference Website:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/conference/another-world-of-popular-entertainments/





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