European Popular Culture Association (EPCA)



CALL FOR PAPERS

EUPOP 2012

Inaugural Conference of the
European Popular Culture Association

11-13 July 2012

London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London.

Individual paper and panel contributions are invited for the inaugural conference of the European Popular Culture

Association (EPCA). EUPOP 2012 will explore European popular culture in all its different forms This might include

European Film (past and present), Television, Music, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Comics, Popular

Literature, Sport, Heritage and Curation. And more – we’ll be guided by the submissions. Closing Date for this call:

18th February 2012

This conference will launch the European Popular Culture Association. There will be opportunities for networking

and for developing caucus groups within the EPCA. Presenters at EUPOP 2012 will be encouraged to develop their

papers for publication in a number of Intellect journals, including the new Journal of European Popular Culture, the

journal of the EPCA, other film journals including Film, Fashion and Consumption, and various music journals. Journal

editors will be workin closely with strand – a full list of Intellect journals is available at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/

journals/index/

Papers and Complete Panels for all strands should be submitted to the email contact below. Paper/panel submissions

will be as always subject to peer review: Submit paper or panel proposals* to: europop@arts.ac.uk (The same address

should be used for general administrative queries)


Justine Coupland – Slow down the ticking: Consumerised discourses of ageing and bodily change



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Julie Doyle – Lesbian lifestyles and consumer identities:Lesbian magazines and Queer commodification



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Conference



Crossing Cultures: Women, Ageing and Media

AHRC International Conference

 

University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK

5th December 2008

 

 

The Conference Schedule is now available.

Please visit our website

http://www.wam-research.org.uk/conference/

 


Estella Tincknell – Scourging the abject body: ‘Ten Years Younger’ and the reconstruction of femininity in post-feminist culture



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Abigail Gardner – Framing Grace: Shock and awe at the age(less) black body



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Corinna Tomrley – Anti-Aging: The Frightening, flawed, famous face and the meanin(lessness) of ‘looking your age’



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Irmi Karl – “Triple jeopardy?” – Lesbian in/visibility, reality TV and the spectre of age(ing)



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Ros Jennings – Ageing and performance/ ageing and audience: Petula Clark at 76



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Colette Duke – Older Women and Sexuality in Film



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