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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#4472C4">Starring Asia: a Three-Day International Conference on Asian Stardom and Celebrity</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Date: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">2-4 December 2019</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Venue: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Conference and Event Organisers: </span>
</b><span lang="EN-GB">Shenshen Cai (Swinburne University of Technology), Glen Donnar (RMIT University), Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash University), Vikrant Kishore (Deakin University), Sean Redmond (Deakin University), Jian Xu (Deakin University)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Key date: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB">150-250 Word Abstracts due by
<b>5 May 2019 </b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">A selection of the best conference papers will be published in a confirmed Special Edition of
<i>Celebrity Studies</i> in 2021</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In this three-day conference we will explore the varied ways through which stardom and celebrity emerges in and across Asia. We understand Asia as a geographical location and a geopolitical set of interfaces, both interconnected
and divided by a number of distinct National imaginaries and transnational vectors. Stardom and celebrity is understood to be a central part of the Asian attention economy; wrapped up in questions of representation and identity, democratic and demotic articulations;
and utilised in various nationalist and transnational discourses. The relationship between binaries, core and periphery, major and minoritarian cultural forms will also be addressed.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The questions that energise this call for paper are:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">What does stardom and celebrity mean in Asian regions? How
</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">has it been </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">conceptualized?
</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">What impressions, economies and desires does it elicit? What problems and concerns does it provoke?</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">What is its complex, diverse and multifarious relationship to Western experiences and practices, and global celebrity culture more generally?</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Alongside the conference will be a <b>free</b>
<b>public screening event</b> which will include the showing of four seminal ‘star vehicle’ films: from China, Japan, India, and South Korea. Each film will be introduced by a leading screen expert and will be followed by an industrial panel with leading star
figures from those industries.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Topics to be addressed, complicated and critiqued could include:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Theorizing Stardom and Celebrity in Asian regions – textual and contextual approaches and provocations</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">National star and celebrity case studies</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Digital Asian celebrity cultures</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Asian political celebrity</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Asian star and celebrity fandom</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Asian global care ambassadors</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Do-good Asian stars</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Marketing Asian stardom and celebrity</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Online Asian celebrity</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Attention economies</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Regulating desire – patriarchy, sexuality, religion</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Asian star brands </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">The Asian celebrity influencer</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">DIY Asian celebrity </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">East to the West, the West to the East: transnational star passing
</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Race and ethnicity in the Asian star and celebrity context
</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Asian pop stars and belonging</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Asian star and celebrity aesthetics</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">National and nationalist star Asian bodies
</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Empirical research on Asian stars and celebrities
</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Trans-Asian pop stars and fandom</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Queer and transgendered Asian celebrities</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Asian celebrity-turned-activists</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Asian celebrities and public diplomacy</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">150-250 word abstracts</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> for individual paper presentations or
<b>750 word pre-constituted panel abstracts</b> should be sent as a <b>Word document</b> to
<u><a href="mailto:s.redmond@deakin.edu.au">s.redmond@deakin.edu.au</a></u> by <b>
5 May 2019</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For enquiries, please contact any of the organisation committee members:
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Glen Donnar <u><a href="mailto:glen.donnar@rmit.edu.au">glen.donnar@rmit.edu.au</a></u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Shenshen Cai <u><a href="mailto:scai@swin.edu.au">scai@swin.edu.au</a></u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Jian Xu <u><a href="mailto:j.xu@deakin.edu.au">j.xu@deakin.edu.au</a></u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Vikrant Kishore <u><a href="mailto:vikrant.kishore@deakin.edu.au">vikrant.kishore@deakin.edu.au</a></u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">岩渕功一</span><span lang="EN-US">
</span><u><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:koichi.iwabuchi@monash.edu">koichi.iwabuchi@monash.edu</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sean Redmond <u><a href="mailto:s.redmond@deakin.edu.au">s.redmond@deakin.edu.au</a></u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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