Call for PapersThe Cultures of Popular CultureRoyal Irish Academy Annual ConferenceQueen’s University, Belfast, 13 th - 14 th December 2013Popular Culture has long been absent from the syllabus, eschewed by researchers and viewed condescendingly sometimes even by its most adept practitioners. It has come a long way to become the thriving academic discipline it is today. Just as the term Popular Culture describes the widest range of practices, Popular Culture Studies cover the most heterogeneous objects. While this very diversity makes it exciting as a research field, it presents a challenge in terms of methods and approaches. To promote scientific exchanges at international level, Popular Culture Studies need elements of comparability and theorization. The annual conference of the Royal Irish Academy, organised in collaboration with the School of Modern Languages at Queen’s University Belfast, intends to offer a forum for discussion between academics, teaching and researching in the fields of Popular Cultures. It will consider the benefits of studying Popular Cultures in Modern Languages Studies and seek to map current areas of research. It presents a distinctive opportunity to discuss corpora and contrast approaches.Keynote Speaker Professor Diana Holmes (Leeds): ‘On Popular Cultures and the Middlebrow’Topics for discussion include but are not restricted to:Translation and Interpretation of Popular CultureCultural icons and cultural iconicityPopular cultures as media culturesTeaching Popular Cultures in their original languageCultural categories, normativity, canonicityConsensualism, sensationalism and mass appealGlobal mainstream cultures and resistanceFetishism, tosh and trashSelf-reflexivity and parodyMass educationDemocratic culture and satireFolk culturesPlease send 200-word proposals by the 1 st of October 2013 to the conference organisers:Dr Tori Holmes, Iberian and Latin America Studies, QUB : t.holmes@qub.ac.ukDr Dominique Jeannerod, French Studies, QUB : d.jeannerod@qub.ac.ukDr Federico Pagello, Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, QUB f.pagello@gmail.com
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