Dear list members,
I was asked to forward the below CFP for the biennial conference of the
Royal Irish Academy Committee for Modern Languages, Literary and
Cultural Studies. The conference will be held at Queen's University,
Belfast on 13th - 14th December 2013. For any queries, please contact
the conference organisers directly: Dr Tori Holmes, Spanish and
Portuguese Studies, QUB : [log in to unmask] Dr Dominique Jeannerod,
French Studies, QUB : [log in to unmask] Dr Federico Pagello,
Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, QUB :
[log in to unmask]
With best wishes
Marieke Krajenbrink
The Cultures of Popular Culture. Biennial conference of the Royal Irish
Academy Committee for Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies
Queen's University, Belfast, 13th - 14th December 2013
Call for Papers
Popular Culture has long been absent from the syllabus, eschewed by
researchers and viewed condescendingly sometimes even by its most adept
practitioners. It has come a long way to become the thriving academic
discipline it is today. Just as the term Popular Culture describes the
widest range of practices, Popular Culture Studies cover the most
heterogeneous objects. While this very diversity makes it exciting as a
research field, it presents a challenge in terms of methods and
approaches. To promote scientific exchanges at international level,
Popular Culture Studies need elements of comparability and theorization.
The biennial conference of the Royal Irish Academy, hosted by the School
of Modern Languages at Queen's University Belfast, intends to offer a
forum for discussion between academics, teaching and researching in the
fields of Popular Cultures. It will consider the benefits of studying
Popular Cultures in Modern Languages Studies and seek to map current
areas of research. It presents a distinctive opportunity to discuss
corpora and contrast approaches.
Keynote Speaker Professor Diana Holmes (Leeds): 'On Popular Cultures
and the Middlebrow'
Topics for discussion include but are not restricted to:
* Translation and interpretation of Popular Culture * Cultural icons and
cultural iconicity * Popular cultures as media cultures * Visual and
digital cultures * Teaching Popular Cultures in their original language
* Cultural categories, normativity, canonicity * Consensualism,
sensationalism and mass appeal * Global mainstream cultures and
resistance * Fetishism, tosh and trash * Self-reflexivity and parody *
Mass education * Sport cultures and the body * Democratic culture and
satire * Folk cultures
Papers (to be given in English) are welcome on topics relating to
popular cultures in any area of Modern Languages Studies. Postgraduate
research students are encouraged to submit proposals.
Please send 200-word proposals by the 1st of October 2013 to the
conference organisers:
Dr Tori Holmes, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, QUB :
[log in to unmask] Dr Dominique Jeannerod, French Studies, QUB :
[log in to unmask] Dr Federico Pagello, Institute for Collaborative
Research in the Humanities, QUB : [log in to unmask]
For further information and updates about the conference please visit
http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/popularculture/.
Dr Dominique Jeannerod
Lecturer in French Studies,
Level 3 Convenor
School of Modern Languages
House 10, University Square,
Queen's University, Belfast,
BT 7 1 NN
Northern Ireland
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Consultation Hours (8/301)
Monday 12-13
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