The 3rd Annual MMU Football Conference
“Football and Communities of Resistance”
The 3rd annual Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities (CSFC) conference “Football and Communities of Resistance” will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University on Thursday 12th June 2014. There will be an associated event ‘Out of Play’ hosted by the National Football Museum on Friday 13th June 2014.
Call for Papers
Football continues to be a site of protest with fan campaigns aimed at the commercialization and the governance of the game a regular feature of league and cup competitions at national and international levels. As a result, football has become a site for communities of resistance to emerge in opposition to dominant forces within the game’s institutions and the general political institutions that govern society as a whole. In this World Cup year, CSFC invites paper and PechaKucha proposals from academics and practitioners addressing the key conference theme including, but not limited to, papers that intersect and/or interconnect with the following:
• Fan cultures and identities
• Football communities
• Against Modern Football campaigns
• World Cup and mega events
• Football, civil unrest and disorder
• Football clubs as sites of resistance
• Technology and football
To open the conference, the keynote speech will address the issues of resistance and contestation in football today.
The morning panel sessions will consist of a mix of academic/research papers and presentations from football industry practitioners. If you are a practitioner and interested in participating in any of the sessions, we request a 15 minute presentation of your work, or an issue you are dealing with, related to the session theme.
The afternoon is dedicated to PechaKucha interactions – short 20×20 sessions: 20 images/slides, 20 seconds per slide!! This session is intended to be informal and interactive to generate both heat and light through broad ranging dialogue and discussion. We would ask therefore that with your initial expression of interest you provide a brief abstract/preview of what you intend to cover in your talk. If you need more information on PechaKucha, you can find it here: http://www.pechakucha.org/faq
There will be a head to head debate on football and communities of resistance to close the conference.
If you would like to organise a panel discussion or present a paper on an alternative theme, or if you have any other questions regarding the conference, please email csfc@mmu.ac.uk.
Key Dates:
Please send paper abstracts (250 words max) and PechaKucha titles (100 word max) by 5pm 28th March 2014 to csfc@mmu.ac.uk
We aim to provide notification of acceptance by the 11th April 2014.
National Football Museum events
12th June Evening programme
The night of the 12th June sees the opening game of the FIFA World Cup – Brazil Vs Croatia (kick-off 9pm). The match will be shown in The National Football Museum for conference delegates. Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
‘Out of Play’ 13th June 2014 (National Football Museum)
On the 13th June, our partner the National Football Museum will host an ‘Out of Play’ event at which artists will be creating space for dialogue, debate and critical reflection on their relationship with football.
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CFP: “Football and Communities of Resistance”, MMU 3rd Annual Conference, Manchester, UK, 12th June 2014
February 18, 2014Call for Chapters: Media Ethics, Edited Collection
February 17, 2014Call for Chapters: Media Ethics, Edited Collection
Editors:
Paul Booth, DePaul University
Amber Davisson, DePaul University
Among readers as well as teachers and students, there is a strong interest in understanding the complex ethical issues raised by seemingly omnipresent media forces. We invite submissions for an edited collection that deals broadly with current issues in contemporary media ethics. The book will deal with ethical issues facing both media producers and consumers. We welcome essays that discuss ethical issues facing media professionals in both print and broadcast journalism, advertising, public relations, and entertainment. These essays may deal with issues raised by emerging technologies, convergence media, or more established mass media outlets. Beyond the discussion of ethical issues facing media professionals, we are also invite essays that address private media consumption and production practices. We are interested in both classical and contemporary philosophical approaches to media ethics.
Essays may explore, but are certainly not limited to, the following topics:
- Changing perspectives on media and privacy
- The evolution of intellectual property rights (copyright, trademark, and patent law)
- Citizen Journalist
- Pornography
- Information Ethics
- Comedy News Shows
- Political Opinion/Commentary Shows
- Photoshop
- Defamation
- Diversity and Representation in Film and Television
- Native Advertising
- Public Relations and Strategic Communication
Please submit proposals of 300-500 words with a brief biographical statement and contact information via email attachment to Paul Booth and Amber Davisson at adavisso@depaul.edu no later than March 30th 2014. Notice of acceptance will be sent out by May 2014 and completed essays accepted for publication will be due in September 2014.
Call for Papers: 2014 AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, Los Angeles, USA, 3-6 July 2014
February 17, 20142014 AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium
July 3 – July 6
Anime Expo 2014
Los Angeles Convention Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Marc Steinberg (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2014
Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga) represent one of the major contributions that Japan has made to global visual and popular culture. The academic area of anime and manga studies is young, only about 30 year old, but extraordinarily vibrant. It welcomes a wide range of interpretations and approaches, draws on different disciplines and methodologies, and can involve both academics, industry professionals, independent scholars, and fans/enthusiasts.
The Anime and Manga Studies Symposium is a unique opportunity for scholars to look at all aspects of anime and comics – the works themselves, their creators, producers, and audiences, their history, and their global impact. It is an opportunity to present cutting-edge work, to explore a diversity of topics, and to receive constructive feedback. A major goal of the Symposium is to bring together speakers from diverse backgrounds, fields and areas to exchange ideas, chart new directions, and contribute to building a community of anime and manga studies.
Uniquely, it is an integral part of the schedule of Anime Expo, the largest gathering of fans of Japanese popular culture in the U.S. This will give speakers an opportunity to present their research and scholarship directly to public audiences, to interact with fans of anime and manga from around the world, and to become participants in a celebration and appreciation of Japanese popular culture. In turn, the Symposium also introduces the convention’s attendees to the practices and ideas of formal scholarship of Japanese visual culture.
The Symposium invites submissions for papers on a wide range of topics dealing with anime and manga. Possible areas to explore can include—but are not limited to:
- Critical studies of individual creators, directors and animators, especially in larger contexts such as anime/manga as a whole, animation, comics, Japanese literature/film, science fiction, war literature, etc.
- Close readings of particular works, with a focus on genre conventions and subversions and relationships to previous works in anime/manga and other media.
- Gender and Sexuality: Fan service and objectification, the male and female gaze, the interplay of male and female creators, producers, and audiences
- Age, class, race, ethnicity/nationality and other social differences
- Reflections on current social, political and ecological issues
- Responses to the world and to Japanese history: The 3.11 Tohoku Disaster, World War II, interactions between Japan and other countries
- The impact of new technologies (wireless communication, augmented reality, mobile computing) on storytelling in anime/manga
- The use of remix culture: Adaptation and interpretation of Eastern, Western and other literatures and visual media in Japanese popular culture
- Copyright, obscenity, and other legal issues
- Anime and manga as tools of globalization and agents of promoting Japanese culture
- The history and evolution of anime/manga fandom outside Japan: Fan practices and experiences—clubs, conventions, cosplay, fansites, fansubbing, anime music videos
- The future of anime/manga consumption – streaming, online comics, crowdsourcing, etc.
- Potentials for anime/manga as platforms for social change and anime/manga fans as actors of social change
- The ethics and challenges of presenting Japanese popular culture products around the world
The Symposium particularly invites papers focusing on newer works and emerging creators.
Speakers are also welcome to submit proposals for roundtable discussions on these and related topics.
Potential roundtables can include:
- Differences in theoretical approaches to anime and manga
- Anime/manga fan practices and activities in different countries, cultures and regions
- New directions, new opportunities, and new challenges in thinking, writing, and teaching about anime/manga
The AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium will be open to all AX attendees. Speakers are urged to consider subjects that will be of interest to general non-specialist audiences and do not require significant backgrounds in Asian Studies, media theory, literature, etc, and to tailor their presentations accordingly.
For consideration, please submit the title of your paper or panel, an abstract (300 words maximum) and a CV to mkoulikov@gmail.com
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: May 1, 2014
All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
All invited participants will be offered free admission to Anime Expo.
CFP: Subverting Fashion: Style Cultures, Fan Culture & the Fashion Industry, St Mary’s University, London, 11th July 2014
February 17, 2014Subverting Fashion is an interdisciplinary one-day conference to be held on Friday 11th July 2014 at St Mary’s University, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London.
Abstract deadline: 20th March, 2014
Fashion is a paradox. On the one hand, fashion can represent consumerism, conformity and repression. But it can also be recognised as a means to communicate individuality, cultural and subcultural affiliations, personality and tastes, and expressions of identity. Subverting Fashion aims to explore appropriations of fashion and style as creativity, self-expression, collective identity and rebelliousness in media and culture, as well as questioning these approaches both within and outside the fashion industry.
We invite 250-word proposals for 20-minute papers on topics related to alternative fashion, style and performative identity in popular culture and the media. Papers from all disciplines and areas of research are invited, and we are particular looking for contributions in the areas of:
· Analysis of subcultural styles and identities, including body modification and tattooing, and various forms of anti-fashion
· Explorations of DIY fashion, including handicrafting, fibre and textile arts
· Studies of cosplay, fan costuming and live action role play
· Accounts of costuming in film, television and theatre
· Approaches to fashion and style in reality TV
· Research into fashion and commodification of gender in the print media
· Studies of fashion in relation to size, physical appearance and difference (particularly gender and ethnicity, but also class, sexuality, disability, age and religion), including the relation of fashion, cosmetics and cosmetic surgery to notions of beauty
Proposals and enquiries should be sent to:
Maria Mellins (maria.mellins@smuc.ac.uk)
Brigid Cherry (brigid.cherry@smuc.ac.uk)
Call for Papers: Queer Fan Cultures in Greater China, edited collection
January 28, 2014Queer Fan Cultures in Greater China, edited collection
Editors:
Maud Lavin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago;
Ling Yang, Xiamen University;
Jing Zhao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contact Email: queerfandom2014@yahoo.com
Timeline:
Proposal due May 30, 2014 (1000-1500 words);
Acceptance Notification by July 30, 2014;
Final Submission due Dec 30, 2014 (5000-8500 words)
CALL:
Queer fandom nowadays has become a global phenomenon. It helps exemplify the complexities, anxieties, conflicts, and negotiations within and surrounding the collision of global, national, and regional cultures. Some of its subdivided fields, such as Western slash and Japanese Boys’ Love (BL), have received significant academic attention since 1980s (e.g., Aoyama, 1988; Bacon-Smith 1992; Buckley 1991; Fujimoto 1991; Jenkins 1992; Kinsella 1998; Matsui 1993; Penley 1992; Russ 1985). Especially in recent years, the distributions and interpretations of BL across language and geographical boundaries, the distinctiveness and similarities between BL and slash genres, the pornographic aspect of BL, slash, and other forms of queer fannish productions have been emphasized in a body of scholarly literature worldwide (e.g., Brienza 2009; Chao 2013; Galbraith 2011; Glasspool 2013; Isaksson 2009; Keft-Kennedy 2008; Levi 2009; Levi & McHarry & Pagliassotti 2010; Martin 2012; McLelland 2000; Meyer 2013; Mizoguchi 2008; Nagaike 2003; Nagaike 2009; Pagliassotti 2009; Penley 1991; Perper & Cornog 2002; Sabucco 2003; Shamoon 2012; Silvio 2011; Welker 2006; Wood 2006; Wood 2013; Zanghellini 2009).
Meanwhile, the blooming of Chinese queer fandoms in the past two decades has also offered rich sites of queer representations of gender and sexuality. Greatly shaped by Chinese traditional romantic literature, Japanese BL, and Western slash cultures (Feng 2009; Xu & Yang 2013; Yang & Bao 2012; Zheng 2009), contemporary Chinese queer fan cultures have been enjoying a growing diversity. The objects Chinese fans queerly fantasize about are by no means limited to local Chinese celebrities, nor to self-identified queer celebrities. The proliferation of cross-regional, cross-cultural, and transnational Chinese queer fandoms dedicated to androgynous celebrities, queer media, and popular culture is also hard to ignore. Yet, research explicating the intricacies of gender identities, sexual desires, regional differences, national belongings, and global queer cultural convergence and hybridization within Chinese queer fandoms is still far from adequate.
To fill this research gap, this edited collection stresses the struggles, potentials, and dynamics of queerness unveiled within a variety of the fannish contexts of Greater China. Bearing on the intersecting of global cultures studies, post-colonial studies, modern queer theory, and media audience research, we view queerness as a nonstraight spectatorial position (Doty 1993; Kohnen 2008) and/or a productive space (Munoz 1999). These expansive interests have also renegotiated certain online relations along homosocial lines, at times blurring, at times contesting boundaries between fans who define themselves as queers and those who do not. Accordingly, we aim to examine Chinese queer fandom as a grassroots cultural palimpsest that reconfigure, contest against, trespass, and/or overturn the dominant scripts of identity and subjectivity.
We seek chapter contributions that elaborate the cultural specificities, significances, transformativity, hybridity, historicity, and futurity epitomized by Chinese queer fan cultures. We are especially keen to receive manuscripts that consider the queer dimensions of gender, sexuality, desire, and fantasy from a wide range of Chinese temporal and geographical settings. We also very welcome submissions that employ interdisciplinary and/or comparative approaches.
Manuscript topics may include but are not limited to:
—Genders and Sexualities in Chinese Boys’ Love/Slash and Girls’ Love/Femslash Fandoms
—Queerness and Performativity in Chinese Fandoms Dedicated to Anime and Cosplay/Role-Play/Life-Play
—Chinese Queer Readings of Media, Popular Culture, and Celebrities Worldwide
—Chinese Queer Fans’ Gender- and Sexuality-Related Identities, Agencies, Subjectivities, Fantasies, Desires, Connections, and Relationships within Fan Communities
—Racial Representation, Distant Cultural Construction, and Non-Chinese Imagination in Chinese Queer Fan Cultures
—The Interrelationship and Interaction between Chinese Queer Fandoms, Queer Organizations, Queer Movements, Queer Politics, and Queer Grassroots Publics and Communities
—Queer, Pornographic Representations of Male/Female Sexualities in Chinese Queer Fandoms
—The Transgressiveness, Multivalence, and Constructedness of Masculinities and Femininities in Chinese Fan-Made Queer Productions
—Violence, Abuse, and Aggressiveness in Chinese Fan-Made Queer Productions
—The Interplay of the Boom of Boys’ Love/Slash and/or Girls’ Love/Femslash Industries, Fans’ Passions for Queering and Queerness, and the Commercialization of and Censorship on Queer Media in Greater China
—Imaginaries Related to Transgender Issues that Intersect with Chinese Queer Fan Practices
—Rethinkings of Fandom and Homosociality Related to Broadly Defined Chinese Queer Fan Practices
Note:
We are only interested in academic analytic papers grounded in certain critical/theoretical perspectives that have NOT been published elsewhere.
To submit chapter proposal submissions for consideration, please send a 1000- to 1500-word abstract (outlining the topic, methods, and fan-related materials used) with working bibliography and a CV to the book editors at queerfandom2014@yahoo.com by May 30th, 2014.
Acceptance will be handled on a rolling basis till the end of July, 2014. Early submissions are strongly encouraged.
Completed, well-polished papers from accepted contributors should run between 5,000 to 8,500 words and are expected before the end of December, 2014.
Call For Papers: New Directions in Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present, April 11, 2014, UCL, London, UK
January 28, 2014CFP: New Directions in Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present
Friday, April 11, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM (BST)
Department of English, UCL
Heralded by The Telegraph as a ‘global phenomenon,’ the BBC Sherlock is now one of the most commercially and critically successful series of all time. This one-day symposium focuses on the series to look back at its roots in Conan Doyle’s stories, to situate it in light of contemporaneous adaptations and pastiches, and to examine its treatment of a range of issues including race, gender, terrorism, and international relations. The fruits of this symposium will lead to the publication of a special journal issue dedicated to the series.
In this symposium, we will screen His Last Vow, attend presentations, and discuss Sherlock Holmes, the BBC Sherlock, and aspects of neo-Victorian detective writing. Please email your 200-word abstract for a 20-minute presentation and 50-word biography to ue_tom@hotmail.com by February 28.
This conference is free and open to the public. Please register here:http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-directions-in-sherlock-tickets-6900426361?aff=eorg.
Keynote:
Dr Benjamin Poore
Department of Theatre, Film and Television
University of York
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/SherlockHolmesPastAndPresent
Twitter: @SHolmesPastPres
Possible topics may include but are not limited to:
Beginnings and endings
Sherlock’s filmic structure
Neo-Victorian Sherlock
Neo-Gothic Sherlock
Sherlock and style
Reason and romance
Sherlock’s ‘scientific method’
Sherlock and gender
Reputation and blackmail
Sherlock and Elementary
Sherlock and House
Home and the nation
Sherlock and the world
Sherlock and race
Critical responses to Sherlock
Sherlock’s fandom
Fandom and criticism
Sherlock’s locations
Sherlock’s merchandise
Call for Papers: Fan Phenomena: Rocky Horror Picture Show
January 23, 2014Fan Phenomena: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Editor, Marisa C. Hayes
Now accepting abstracts to be considered for a new book Fan Phenomena: The Rocky Horror Picture Show from Intellect Press. This title will be part of the latest series of Fan Phenomena books, which aim to explore and decode the fascination we have with what constitutes an iconic or cultish phenomenon and how a particular person, TV show or film infiltrates its way into the public consciousness.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Fan Phenomena) title will examine the film’s fan culture, its essential role in creating the midnight movie, audience participation, and cult film cultures, as well as other areas of influence and social impact. Subjects are to be addressed in a thoughtful and accessible manner aimed at both fans and those interested in the cultural and social aspects of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
– the film’s role in creating a culture of the midnight movie, audience participation, and the cult film circuit
-influence of developing the pastiche tribute film (for its homage to B-Grade Sci Fi, Hammer horror, early 20th century musicals, pulp, comics, etc.)
-queer theory
-sexual liberation
-glam rock aesthetics/drag style
-hedonism
-language and linguistics explorations pertaining to the creative use of dialogue and audience call and response during the film
-diverse aspects of fan art, fan tributes, and fan culture
-economics of fan culture, including creation of low budget cult classic and/or how a cult subject becomes a franchise (sequels, stage revivals, etc.)
Ten essays will be selected and published within the following broad section categories: Fashion, Fan Media, Language, Economics, Virtual, Influence, Philosophies, Character/Characterization.
Abstracts should be 300 words long. Please include a CV or resume with your abstract. Abstracts due March 3, 2014. Final chapters of 3,000-3,500 words will be due July 15, 2014. Please direct all questions and submissions to editor Marisa Hayes: marisa@videodansebourgogne.com
Call for Papers: Twitter, Celebrity and online public identity, Celebrity Studies Journal Forum Section
January 22, 2014CFP: Twitter, Celebrity and online public identity
Abstracts due: 28th Feb 2014
Contact and submissions to: Sarah Thomas skt@aber.ac.uk
The ongoing adoption of Twitter as a tool for communication, broadcasting and interaction has meant that the social media platform has emerged as a significant site for re-thinking some of the key relationships between celebrity, performance and the presentation of the self. This CFP seeks short articles for Celebrity Studies Journal Forum section that explore Twitter and its usage beyond its status as a ‘new’ platform (that positions its singular significance through comparison with traditional representational media). We aim to consider the diversity of presentational modes that Twitter allows for through an examination of the different functions, usages, modes of address and performance that may operate across the site in its own right. In particular, we are interested in the way the platform has re-invigorated debates around the conception of authenticity as a way of understanding the online presentation of public personalities, and are especially interested in receiving submissions that explore the following topics:
- The presentation of self online
- Authenticity and interactivity
- Performance, authenticity and the digital self
- Interactive celebrity
- Digital labour and celebrity
- Online spaces of ‘public privacy’
The special issue of the journal will incorporate the style and ethos of Twitter in the submissions:
Abstracts should be 140 words.
The short articles should begin with reference to a specific Tweet that sparks the analysis within the rest of the article.
The final word count for the article will be between 750 and 1,500 words, depending on the number of accepted submissions.
Detailed schedule of production
Abstracts due: 28th Feb
First drafts: 28th March
Editors return: 25th April
Final drafts: 23rd May
Contact and submissions to: Sarah Thomas skt@aber.ac.uk
Call for Papers: The Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work, special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures
January 22, 2014Call for Papers: Fan Studies & Fandom, Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand 5th Annual Conference, Tasmania, Australia, 18-20 June 2014
January 17, 2014Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand
5th Annual International Conference
June 18-June 20, 2014
The Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart, Tasmania Australia
CALL FOR PAPERS
Fan Studies and Fandom
Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2014
Proposals for both panels and individual papers are now being accepted for all aspects of Fan Studies, including, but not limited to, the following areas:
•Fan Fiction
•Fan/Creator interaction
•Race, Gender and Sexuality in Fandom
•Music Fandom
•Reality Television Fandom
•The Internet and Fandom – Live Journal, IMDB and beyond
•Fan Communities
•Fan Media Production – icons, fanvids, fan art and filk.
•Fans as Critics
•Fan videos
•Fan crafts
•Fan pilgrimages
Please submit 150 word abstract and 100 word bio. Panel proposals should include one abstract of 200 words describing the panel, accompanied by the abstracts and bios (100 words) of the individual papers that comprise the panel. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals.
Please send all enquires to:
Katherine Larsen
The George Washington University
Ames Hall 223
2100 Foxhall Road NW
Washington D.C. 20007
(202) 242 5090
klarsen@gwu.edu
Or to fandom@popcaanz.com
The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (Popcaanz) is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. It is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life. As a product of consumption, an intellectual object of inquiry, and as an integral component of the dynamic forces that shape societies.
The Fan Studies Network 