<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">On behalf of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) board, I am pleased to announce that the Spring 2015 edition of </font><i><font color="#000000">Celebrity Culture and Social Inquiry</font></i><font color="#000000"> has been published.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">Highlights include</font></span></u><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">:</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt"><font color="#000000">&nbsp;</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><ul style="list-style-type:disc;direction:ltr"><li style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="line-height:normal;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">Full program of inaugural CMCS international conference at </span><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">Ryerson University on 27-28, May 2015. </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">Access full program </span><a href="http://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5674&amp;id=32c39d7cc4&amp;e=9b4b89800a" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">here</span></a><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">.</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">Registration of CMCS workshop &ldquo;Scholars as Critics&rdquo; on May 28, 2015. </span><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">Deadline April 17, 2015. Select Option C </span><a href="http://cmc-centre.com/conferences-2015/conference2015/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">here</span></a><span style="color:black;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">.</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">Coverage of CMCS board members in Huffington Post, Toronto Star, Chatelaine, and Flare</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0pt"><i><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">Bibliographies</span></i><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt"> research guide <i>Celebrity and Public Persona</i></span><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt"> <span>(2015) </span>by P. David Marshall </span><a href="http://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5674&amp;id=0d57f62315&amp;e=9b4b89800a" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756841/obo-9780199756841-0159.xml</span></a><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt">.</span></p></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;fo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lor="#999999"> </font><font color="#0d0d0d" face="TimesNewRoman" size="1"><font color="#0d0d0d" face="TimesNewRoman" size="1"><font color="#444444" face="TimesNewRoman" size="1"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#666666">Also see Dr. Daniel Ploeger&#39;s </font><a href="http://www.daniploeger.org/#!press/c1k7z" target="_blank"><font color="#666666">press</font></a><font color="#666666"> area.</font><font color="#444444"></font></font><font color="#444444"></font></font><font color="#444444"></font></font><font color="#444444"></font></font></font></font><font color="#444444"></font></font></font></p></font></font></font></font></font></div></font></div></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>