Popular Culture Research Group

The Popular Culture Research Group is a newly established group which brings together researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Science and Social Science. The group resolutely breaks down disciplinary barriers and has participants from fields including Music, Fine Art, Film, Journalism, Radio, Music, Sport, Theology, English Language, English Literature and Politics. This enables the group to address topics within Popular Culture from a multiplicity of perspectives and gives the opportunity for creative and collaborative research projects. The Group provides a forum in which to demonstrate the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with in within ‘traditional’ subjects.

 

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The group meets at lunchtimes to take the opportunity for lively debate. Recent topics have included minstrelsy, hierarchies and gender.

Liverpool Hope University,
Thursday 14^th  – Saturday 16^th July

The Popular Culture research group at Liverpool Hope University welcome papers for its second annual conference. The title and general theme of the conference is 'Theorising the Popular'. Its aim is to demonstrate the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with and within ‘traditional’ subjects. The group resolutely breaks down disciplinary barriers and challenges academic hierarchies.

 We would especially welcome papers in the following areas, although we invite proposals from all aspects of Popular Culture:
Film
TV
Music
Drama & Participation
Gender: Feminism/Femininities/Masculinities/Queering/Sexualities/Representations of the Body
Literature
Language/Linguistics
Fan Cultures
Comedy
Politics
Sport
Media/Communications

The cost of the conference is:
£220. 00 – including all meals and refreshments, plus en suite on-campus accommodation (£200. 00 post-graduate students)
£120. 00 – including lunches and refreshments without accommodation. (£100. 00 post-graduate students)

£40. 00 – single day rate including lunch and refreshments (£30. 00 post-graduate students)

Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Please send abstracts of 300 words to Dr Jacqui Miller This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  or Dr John Walliss  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   by February 28^th 2011. 

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