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Dear colleagues, We are inviting proposals for the World War 1: Media, Entertainments & Popular Culture two-day conference that will take place on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd July 2015 at the People’s History Museum, Manchester, UK. The deadline for abstracts is 19 January 2015 (Monday). The conference is organised by the University of Chester, University of Salford, UCLAN and Manchester Metropolitan University. Please email a 300-word abstract (stating your name, email address and institutional affiliation) to: [log in to unmask] Outputs: A book of selected papers from the conference titled, World War I: Media, Entertainments & Popular Culture. This will be a companion volume to our book World War II and the Media (2014). A dedicated edition of Media, War & Conflict (Sage Publications). Exhibition and performances leading up to and during the conference at the People’s History Museum. We hope you can suggest materials (songs, film, photographs) to be included. This conference aims to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine and discuss both contemporary and subsequent accounts, interpretations and uses of the First World War in terms of mass and popular media and entertainments. We are inviting proposals for papers on any aspect of the Media, Entertainments and Popular Culture during and after the First World War. Possible themes include: Photography, films, newsreels WWI celebrities Contemporaneous press reportage Wartime censorship Oppositional/dissenting voices Music hall performers Wartime images The popular press and WWI Wartime and cultural memory Popular music Sports Pubs and clubs The war in popular fiction Cartoons, Posters Post 1918 popular uses of World War I themes. Additional information is available on our website: http://ch5983.wix.com/ww12015conference. Kind regards, Vera Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova Senior Lecturer in Journalism Department of Media University of Chester Room CKW150, Kingsway Buildings Chester, CH1 4BJ Tel.: 01244 515 727 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.chester.ac.uk/media/staff/dr-v-slavtcheva-petkova -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------