With apologies for cross-posting, a final reminder that the extended deadline for abstract or panel submissions to the Grace Jones symposium, Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh 5-6 October, is Friday 26 May. 
The symposium organisers have already been approached (separately and unsolicited) by five different publishers wishing to publish a book based on contributions to the symposium and we have begun speaking to publishers about possible formats. 

Original CFP as follows: 

Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones
A symposium at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, 5-6 October 2017
Call for Papers

Grace Jones’ contributions to multiple fields of culture over more than forty years – especially music, performance, fashion, and film – have established her as an iconic figure. To mark the 40th anniversary of her debut album, Portfolio, the University of Edinburgh is holding a two-day symposium on Jones’ diverse range of work and its enduring significance and influence.

We invite 20-minute paper contributions (or pre-constituted, three-speaker panels) on any aspects of Grace Jones’ career. Possible topics for discussion include (but are not limited to): 
•	Extended analyses of particular Grace Jones albums or individual tracks
•	Jones’ key musical collaborators (the Compass Point All Stars and others) 
•	Jones, Compass Point studios and the cosmopolitan in contemporary popular music
•	Jones and the cover version as creative strategy
•	Jones’ influence within dance music cultures from Disco onwards
•	Jones and Jamaica
•	Jones and non-normative forms of black culture and identity within popular music
•	Jones, androgyny, sexuality and performativity within popular music
•	Jones as live performer and performance artist
•	Jones and the producer as auteur (Chris Blackwell, Trevor Horn, Tom Moulton, Alex Sadkin and others)
•	Jones, Jean-Paul Goude and the performer’s public image as creative statement within post-1970 popular music
•	The contribution of Island Records to popular music since the 1970s
•	Jones and the creative cultures of NYC and other global cities
•	Jones’ parallel careers in fashion and film
•	Jones and the evolution of celebrity and celebrity cultures since the 1970s
•	Jones and post-1960s cultures of decadence and excess
•	Jones and postmodern divadom 
•	Jones and popular music fan cultures 
•	Jones’ influence on her contemporaries and subsequent generations of musicians and performers  
•	Jones and the rise of reissue and legacy edition cultures in twenty-first-century popular music  
•	Jones in the twenty-first century

First confirmed keynote speaker (others to follow): Professor Francesca Royster (DePaul University) 

The event will also include screenings and nightclubbing. You can follow updates relating to the symposium online: @onlytherhythm / gracejonessymposium.tumblr.com.

Please send all paper proposals to [log in to unmask] by 5pm on Friday May 26th 2017. Decisions will be made, and a provisional schedule announced, by Friday June 2nd. Ladies and Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones is being co-organised by Dr Glyn Davis ([log in to unmask]) and Dr Jonny Murray ([log in to unmask]). We’re not perfect, but we’re perfect for you.