<div dir="ltr"><div style>Hello CSAAers</div><div>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.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Please find the conference URL and CFP below.</div><div>Cheers</div><div>Tania </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://pcwp6.jmk.su.se/conferences/3-pcwp/about#.UcgwNLTrZSU">http://pcwp6.jmk.su.se/conferences/3-pcwp/about#.UcgwNLTrZSU</a></div>
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Call for Papers</h2><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(67,68,64);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
Abstracts should be submitted to<a href="mailto:abstractspcwp@statsvet.su.se?subject=Abstract%20for%20PCWP" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,104,144)">abstractspcwp@statsvet.su.se</a>.</p>
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Paper abstracts: June 7, 2013.<br>Notification of abstract acceptance July 1, 2013.</p><h3 id="suggested-themes" style="margin:0.75em 0px 0.45em;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;font-size:1.5em;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:2em">
Suggested Themes</h3><ul class="" style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px 0px 0px 2em;border:0px;font:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(67,68,64);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Media Witnessing</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Performing the Visual in Public Spaces</li>
<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Death in the Media: Violence, Consolation and Captivation</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
Transnational News and Popular Culture</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Cultural journalism and world politics</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
Non-Western Popular Cultures and non-Western-centric World Politics</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Music and Politics</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
Methodological approaches to popular culture and world politics</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The politics of the culture industries and governance</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">
The transnational implications of the diffused audience, fandom and consumer resistance</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Performances, presentations, screenings: Producing world politics in cultural forms:</li>
<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Social media activism and politicotainment</li></ul></div><div><h2 class="" style="margin:0px 0px 0.9em;padding:0px 0px 0.15em;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-color:rgb(192,192,192) rgb(192,192,192) rgb(199,192,187);font:inherit;font-size:2em;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em">
About the conference</h2><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(67,68,64);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(67,68,64);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(67,68,64);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(67,68,64);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">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.</p>
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Conference conveners</h3><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(67,68,64);font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">
Michele Micheletti (Lars Hierta chair of political science)<br><a href="mailto:%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" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,104,144)">michele.micheletti@statsvet.su.se</a></p>
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