Call for Papers

The conference will explore, but not necessarily be confined to, such issues as:

• the role of popular entertainments in community and personal well-being
• spaces and spatiality of the popular
• popular entertainments and tourism, travel and leisure
• popular entertainments in a mediatised culture
• circulation, exchange and transmission: cosmopolitanism, trans-nationalism and mobility
• censorship, surveillance, regulation and control
• tradition, memory and nostalgia
• 'the popular' reinvented
• popular audiences
• audience / spectator agency
• historiography of the popular
• popular entertainments and the archive: presence and absence
• nation-building, national identity, and popular entertainments
• spectacle and celebration
• popular science and history
• skills and their transmission: the practices of the popular
• economics of the popular
• risky business: violence, cruelty, aggression, risk and danger
• performing the popular

The abstract for your conference paper can be up to 300 words. We also ask that you accompany your abstract with a brief author bio, up to 250 words for each author. Please email your abstract to:

Gillian.Arrighi@newcastle.edu.au
and
Victor.Emeljanow@newcastle.edu.au

Due date: 15 March, 2013