We are thrilled to
announce our keynote speakers Professor Angela McRobbie and Professor Feona
Attwood whose work perfectly informs the aim of our conference to interrogate
cultural consumption of and by women and girls.
With 10 days
until the deadline for abstracts, I would be grateful if you
could circulate this amongst your departments, mailing lists, newsletters and
networks wherever possible.
CFP:
Consuming/Culture: Women and Girls in Print and Pixels
Keynotes: Prof. Angela
McRobbie and Prof. Feona Attwood
http://openbrookes.net/consumingculture/
@PrintAndPixels
5th-6th June 2015
Submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to [log in to unmask] by 1st October 2014.
Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths
College, University of London, UK. Her unparalleled contribution to the study of
gendered media spans 4 decades: from her seminal 1978 study of teen
magazines, Jackie: an ideology of adolescent
femininity, and the influential Postmodernism and popular
culture (1994), to her forthcoming new book Feminism, femininity and the
perfect (2015: Sage).
Feona
Attwood is Professor of Cultural Studies, Communication and Media at Middlesex
University, UK. Her research in the area of sex in contemporary culture;
sexualization; new technologies; and controversial media has been foundational
to feminist media studies having edited books such as Controversial Images:
Media Representations on the Edge (2013) and Mainstreaming Sex: The
Sexualization of Western Culture (2009) and the recently launched Routledge
journal Porn Studies.
This conference follows on from
those held at Kingston (2012) and Cornell (2013), themed around women and
magazines. We have selected a theme that will allow for a wide range of papers
and we encourage submissions from scholars at all stages of their careers. We
especially welcome proposals that incorporate the following
themes:
* advertising
* celebrity
* digital platforms
* fashion
* food
* internationalisation
* marketing
* memoirs and autobiography
* sport
* all forms
of identity/representational
politics.
The organisers encourage
collaborative efforts, in both individual paper and panel
submissions.
This conference will also
incorporate a poster session that will allow participants to feature visual
aspects of magazines. Queries about this mode of presentation and abstract of
150-250 words can be directed to [log in to unmask] by
1 October 2014.
The will be a small bursary that PhD students can
apply to for help towards travel costs.
Should there be sufficient interest we will
consider the possibility of publishing an edited collection after the
conference.
The conference will be held at
Oxford Brookes University and is jointly sponsored by Oxford Brookes University
(UK), Arcadia University (US), and the University of East Anglia (UK). For
additional information and updates, please go to http://openbrookes.net/consumingculture/ and
follow @PrintAndPixels on
twitter.
Best wishes,
Hannah
Yelin
School of
American Studies
University of East Anglia
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@HannahYelin
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