[csaa-forum] Pirating the Popular conf, Stockholm, Sept 13-14

[TANIA LEWIS]

Hello CSAAers
FYI, the Pirating the Popular conference to be held this September at
Stockholm University is still accepting some abstracts but you'll need to
get in quick.

Please find the conference URL and CFP below.
Cheers
Tania


http://pcwp6.jmk.su.se/conferences/3-pcwp/about#.UcgwNLTrZSU

Call for Papers

Abstracts should be submitted
toabstractspcwp at statsvet.su.se<abstractspcwp at statsvet.su.se?subject=Abstract%20for%20PCWP>
.

Please indicate in the subject box in your email message "Abstract for
PCWP". This will ensure proper handling of your abstract.

*Deadlines:*
Paper abstracts: June 7, 2013.
Notification of abstract acceptance July 1, 2013.
Suggested Themes

   - Media Witnessing
   - Performing the Visual in Public Spaces
   - Death in the Media: Violence, Consolation and Captivation
   - Transnational News and Popular Culture
   - Cultural journalism and world politics
   - Non-Western Popular Cultures and non-Western-centric World Politics
   - Music and Politics
   - Methodological approaches to popular culture and world politics
   - The politics of the culture industries and governance
   - The transnational implications of the diffused audience, fandom and
   consumer resistance
   - Performances, presentations, screenings: Producing world politics in
   cultural forms:
   - Social media activism and politicotainment

About the conference

The study of world politics and popular culture is now an established area
of interest for many disciplines in the social sciences, humanities and the
arts. Popular culture relates to contemporary politics in numerous ways: It
can offer expression that soothes and humours the soul. It can satirize and
play off cultural resonance to resist powerful or repressive forces. And it
can stimulate political or community engagement, as demonstrated clearly in
the role that music and performative satire played in the Arab Uprisings
and in the Occupy activities around the world.

This conference addresses the multiple ways in which popular culture
engages with world affairs. It takes as its starting point the observation
that we live in an age of interregnum - a time where the old institutions
and old rules no longer function sufficiently and new ones have not yet
taken their place. Ours is an age where processes of globalisation are
contributing to the ‘divorce’ of politics from power, resulting in what
Zygmunt Bauman identifies as a ‘liquid modernity’ of endemic uncertainty.’
This uncertainty about authority and interpretation - compounded by
ubiquitous connectivity and audio-visual media - gives rise to power
struggles, problematizes the ability to judge relationships between cause
and effect, provides new opportunities for political engagement and changes
the foundations on which authority rests.

Hosting this conference in Stockholm seems particularly timely given
Sweden’s various, if not contradictory, interventions in the ambiguous
world of popular culture: from the foundation of The Pirate Bay to the
Wikileaks case, from a culture of ‘free viewing’ to Spotify’s corporate
entrepreneurialism, from strongholds in Marxist media theory to Facebook’s
Swedish server farms, and many more.

The general theme Pirating the Popular covers a broad range of practices
concerning the complex, dubious and dynamic nature of popular culture in
world politics. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, performances and
screenings addressing the many different aspects of world politics and
popular culture that are evoked by the metaphor of piracy.
Conference conveners

Michele Micheletti (Lars Hierta chair of political science)
michele.micheletti at statsvet.su.se<%6d%69%63%68%65%6c%65.%6d%69%63%68%65%6c%65%74%74%69@%73%74%61%74%73%76%65%74.%73%75.%73%65?subject=Regarding%20PCWP>

Kristina Riegert (Professor of Media and Communication Studies)
kristina.maj.riegert at ims.su.se<%6b%72%69%73%74%69%6e%61.%6d%61%6a.%72%69%65%67%65%72%74@%69%6d%73.%73%75.%73%65?subject=Regarding%20PCWP>

-- 
Associate Professor Tania Lewis
Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow
School of Media & Communication
RMIT University
Building 36.3.7 City Campus
GPO Box 2476, Melbourne VIC 3001
Australia

ph: +61 3 9925 2406
fax: +61 3 9639 1685
email: tania.lewis at rmit.edu.au

web: www.rmit.edu.au/staff/tania-lewis
        www.telemodernities.org/
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