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Starring Asia: a Three-Day International Conference on Asian Stardom and Celebrity

 

Date: 2-4 December 2019

 

Venue: Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

 

Conference and Event Organisers: Shenshen Cai (Swinburne University of Technology), Glen Donnar (RMIT University), Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash University), Vikrant Kishore (Deakin University), Sean Redmond (Deakin University), Jian Xu (Deakin University)

 

Key date: 150-250 Word Abstracts due by 5 May 2019

 

A selection of the best conference papers will be published in a confirmed Special Edition of Celebrity Studies in 2021

 

In this three-day conference we will explore the varied ways through which stardom and celebrity emerges in and across Asia. We understand Asia as a geographical location and a geopolitical set of interfaces, both interconnected and divided by a number of distinct National imaginaries and transnational vectors. Stardom and celebrity is understood to be a central part of the Asian attention economy; wrapped up in questions of representation and identity, democratic and demotic articulations; and utilised in various nationalist and transnational discourses. The relationship between binaries, core and periphery, major and minoritarian cultural forms will also be addressed.

 

The questions that energise this call for paper are:

 

What does stardom and celebrity mean in Asian regions? How has it been conceptualized?

 

What impressions, economies and desires does it elicit? What problems and concerns does it provoke?

 

What is its complex, diverse and multifarious relationship to Western experiences and practices, and global celebrity culture more generally?

 

Alongside the conference will be a free public screening event which will include the showing of four seminal ‘star vehicle’ films: from China, Japan, India, and South Korea. Each film will be introduced by a leading screen expert and will be followed by an industrial panel with leading star figures from those industries.

 

Topics to be addressed, complicated and critiqued could include:

 

Theorizing Stardom and Celebrity in Asian regions – textual and contextual approaches and provocations

 

National star and celebrity case studies

 

Digital Asian celebrity cultures

 

Asian political celebrity

 

Asian star and celebrity fandom

 

Asian global care ambassadors

 

Do-good Asian stars

 

Marketing Asian stardom and celebrity

 

Online Asian celebrity

 

Attention economies

 

Regulating desire – patriarchy, sexuality, religion

 

Asian star brands

 

The Asian celebrity influencer

 

DIY Asian celebrity

 

East to the West, the West to the East: transnational star passing

 

Race and ethnicity in the Asian star and celebrity context

 

Asian pop stars and belonging

 

Asian star and celebrity aesthetics

 

National and nationalist star Asian bodies

 

Empirical research on Asian stars and celebrities

 

Trans-Asian pop stars and fandom

 

Queer and transgendered Asian celebrities

 

Asian celebrity-turned-activists

 

Asian celebrities and public diplomacy

 

 

150-250 word abstracts for individual paper presentations or 750 word pre-constituted panel abstracts should be sent as a Word document to [log in to unmask] by 5 May 2019

 

For enquiries, please contact any of the organisation committee members:

Glen Donnar [log in to unmask]

Shenshen Cai [log in to unmask]

Jian Xu [log in to unmask]

Vikrant Kishore [log in to unmask]

岩渕功一 [log in to unmask]

Sean Redmond [log in to unmask]

 

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