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• 31 déc 2019

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  The Materiality of Festivity

  Special issue of the Journal of Festive Studies

  In previous issues, the Journal of Festive Studies explored the emerging academic sub-field of festive studies (broadly defined) and the politics of carnival. For this issue, we follow Peter-Paul Verbeek’s advice and look at “the things themselves,” i.e. at the material culture in which carnivals and other festivities are rooted (Verbeek, 2005).

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• 01 nov 2017

  London

  Call for papers - Information

  Broadcasting health and disease

  Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s

  The three-day conference aims to investigate how television programmes in their multiplicity approached issues like medical progress and its limits, healthy behaviour or new forms of exercise by adapting them to TV formats and programming...The conference seeks to analyse how television and its evolving formats expressed and staged bodies, health and fitness from local, regional, national and international perspectives. How spectators were invited not only to be TV consuming audiences, but how shows and TV set-ups integrated and sometimes pretended to transform the viewer into a participant of the show. TV programmes spread the conviction that subjects had the ability to shape their own body.

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• 01 avr 2011

  Call for papers - Information

  Celebrity News: Production, Content and Consumption

  This special issue of Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism intends to provide a venue for the theoretical, critical and empirical engagement with celebrity news in both national and international contexts. Submissions from all theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcome. Papers may focus on the production, content and consumption of celebrity news, as well as on causes and consequences of celebrity news in contemporary culture.

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