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Please note that the deadline has been extended to Friday 13th February. CFP Symposium: "What's occurring?": Gavin and Stacey and the Contemporary Sitcom ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, April 3rd 2009 From Coal House to Dr Who, South Wales has played host to a range of quality television of late, and this one-day Symposium turns due attention to the BBC's BAFTA Award winning sitcom Gavin and Stacey. The organisers are pleased to welcome both Andy Medhurst (author of A National Joke: Popular Comedy and English Cultural Identities) and Brett Mills (author of Television Sitcom) to the Symposium, and are delighted that Welsh media journal Cyfrwng will be hosting the closing event. Papers are invited on, though not restricted to, Gavin and Stacey and the following topics: Humour and the Celtic nations Welsh identity and the sitcom Regionality and the sitcom The contemporary sitcom form Representations of gender The deadline for 500 word proposals is Friday 13th February 2009. For further details, please contact the Symposium organisers Dr Lesley Harbidge ([log in to unmask]) and Daryl Perrins ([log in to unmask]). ---------------------- Dr Lesley Harbidge Film Studies Award Leader Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries Ysgol Diwydiannau Creadigol a Diwylliannol Caerdydd Room CA407 ATRiuM University of Glamorgan 86-88 Adam Street Cardiff CF24 2FN Tel: +44 (0) 1443 668576 E-mail: [log in to unmask]