[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Feminism and Popular Culture (UK) (12/1/06; 6/29/07-7/1/07)

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The Feminist and Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland)
20th Annual Conference
Feminism and Popular Culture
University of Newcastle (June 29th-July 1st, 2007)

UPDATE: This conference is open to everyone; however, there will be a
reduced registration rate for members of the FWSA
- see http://www.fwsa.org.uk/ for more details.

UPDATE: Please note that we will not be accepting performance pieces.

UPDATE: The conference website - with information about registration,
accommodation, travel and the programme - is <http://fempopcult.ncl.ac.uk>.

UPDATE: The length of papers is 20 minutes.

Keynote Speakers:
Pamela Church Gibson
Jackie Stacey
Yvonne Tasker
Imelda Whelehan

The popular straddles disciplines, drawing together research that might
otherwise remain discretely sited. This conference will interrogate how
the popular and feminism has been understood, articulated and
represented both in contemporary cultures and throughout history.
Interdisciplinary in its approach, the conference will bring together
scholars working in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

 From molls to grrrls, from blue-stockings to blue movies, abstracts are
invited on all aspects of gender, feminism, women and popular culture.
We welcome proposals for papers which investigate the representation of
feminism in popular culture as well as papers which theorise the
relationship between feminism and the popular.

Possible Topics:
The Girlie
Postfeminism
Lesbians on Television
Feminist Role Models
Domesticity
Youth Cultures
The Radical vs. the Popular
Anti-feminism and the Backlash
Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Cult of Celebrity
Rereading the Romance
Body Modification
Genre Fiction
Audience Reception
Cybergrrrls
Pornography
Second and Third Waves
Romantic Comedy


Conference Organisers: Stacy Gillis and Melanie Waters

Please send 300-word abstracts or 1000-word panel proposals by 1
December 2006 to <fempopcult_at_ncl.ac.uk>.

Dr Stacy Gillis
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature
School of English
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
E: stacy.gillis at ncl.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)191 222 7360
F: +44 (0)191 222 8708
W: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/stacy.gillis

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