<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000">We are pleased to announce that the 2016 CMCS conference </font><em><font color="#000000">Bridging Gaps: What are the media, publicists, and celebrities selling?</font></em><font color="#000000"> will feature media workshop “Scholars as Critics” with Dr Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs and Dr Celia Lam in Barcelona on </font><span><span><font color="#000000">July 5, 2016</font></span></span><font color="#000000">. Details are given below.<br></font><font color="#000000">                                                                                                                         <br></font><strong><u><font color="#000000">Deadline for abstract submissions</font></u></strong><font color="#000000">: </font><font color="#000000"><span><span>Sunday, December 20, 2015</span></span><br></font><font color="#000000">                                                                                                                         <br></font><font color="#000000"><strong>---</strong><br></font><font color="#000000">                                                                                                                         <br></font><font color="#000000"><strong><u>2016 CMCS Conference Media Workshop “Scholars as Critics</u></strong><br></font><font color="#000000">                                                                                                                         <br>                                                                                                                        Red Room, Four Points by Sheraton Barcelona Diagonal<br>                                                                                                                        Barcelona, Spain<br>                                                                                                                        July 5</font>^{<font color="#000000" size="1">th</font>}<font color="#000000">, 2016<br></font><font color="#000000">                                                                                                                         <br>                                                                                                                        This workshop will offer: guidance on professional skills and career opportunities both inside and outside academia; insights and resources for scholars to become critics and experts in media; and theoretical and practical overview of basic media relations.<br>                                                                                                                         <br></font><font color="#000000"><strong><u>Key Speakers</u></strong><strong>:</strong><br></font><font color="#000000">                                                                                                                         <br></font><font color="#000000"><strong>Dr Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs</strong><br></font><font color="#000000">                                                                                                                         <br>                                                                                                                        Dr Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance and International Lead for the Americas in The School of Arts and Media at The University of Salford, UK.  Kirsty received her MA in Screen Studies from the University of Manchester and a PhD on feminist theory and celebrity culture from The University of Salford. She regularly works with a number of cultural organisations and networks including Salford International Media Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Home, The National Media Museum and Cofilmic and has strong links in the UK comedy industry. Her leadership in the recent launch of </font><em><font color="#000000">Women in Film and Television Network North</font></em><font color="#000000"> and </font><em><font color="#000000">The Hunting Ground</font></em><font color="#000000"> screening/ Q and A with Emmy award winning director Kirby Dick has established significant links between academic and media industries.<br></font><font color="#000000">                                                                                                                         <br>                                                                                                                        Kirsty is a member of the editorial board of the international journal Celebrity Studies (Routledge) and is currently a guest editor of the special issue “Fame-inism: Feminism and Global Celebrity Culture.” She has appeared on BBC Radio 4, Channel 4 News, and Al Jazeera among others.<br><br>URL: </font><u><a style="color:rgb(109,198,221);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5674&amp;id=27e1659e80&amp;e=9b4b89800a" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.salford.ac.uk/arts-media/arts-media-academics/kirsty-fairclough-isaacs</span></a></u><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <br><strong>Dr Celia Lam</strong><br>                                                                                                                         <br>                                                                                                                        Dr Celia Lam is a Lecturer in digital media at the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Notre Dame Australia (Sydney Campus). Celia has a background in production, having completed a Bachelor degree in screen production at Macquarie University and a Masters in Film and Digital Media at the University of Sydney. Celia’s research areas include digital technologies, media production and consumption and audience spectatorship. Celia also has an interest in online identity presentation, and was the recipient of a 2012 Endeavour Award Post Doctoral Fellowship to conduct research in online identity presentation in Hong Kong.<br>                                                                                                                         <br>                                                                                                                        Celia has worked for Radio Television Hong Kong and various production companies in Sydney. She was part of the production team on the Australian Government funded ‘Raising Children DVD’. Her research was also reported in the Education section of the Sydney Morning Herald in 2011.<br><br>                                                                                                                        URL: </span><u><a style="color:rgb(109,198,221);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5674&amp;id=042aea0208&amp;e=9b4b89800a" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://www.nd.edu.au/sydney/schools/arts/staff/celia-lam</span></a></u><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><u></u></strong><strong>Registration includes</strong>: Your printed conference package<strong>,</strong> catered lunch, coffee / tea breaks, evening drinks, professional development workshop, eligibility to publish in <em>Bridging Gaps </em>edited book series, and consideration for the $100 best paper and screen awards.<br>                                                                                                                         <br><strong>Conference Chairs</strong>: Dr Jackie Raphael &amp; Dr Celia Lam<br><br><strong>Conference Committee Members</strong>: Dr Samita Nandy, Dr Louis Massey, Josh Nathan, and Andrea Marshall<br>                                                                                                                         <br><strong>Conference URL</strong> </span><a style="color:rgb(109,198,221);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" href="http://cmc-centre.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8d968a451671b45aa780b5674&amp;id=ca9ecd7fce&amp;e=9b4b89800a" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/barcelona/</span></a><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div> <br><strong>Deadline</strong>: <span><span>Sunday, December 20, 2015<br><br></span></span></div><p><span><span><em>Cross-posted</em>: <a href="http://eepurl.com/bJF3yn" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://eepurl.com/bJF3yn</font></a></span></span></p></span></div>