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Biennial conference of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for
Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies

13-14 December 2013, Queen's University Belfast

Popular Culture has long been absent from the syllabus, eschewed by researchers and viewed condescendingly sometimes even by its most adept practitioners. It has come a long way to become the thriving academic discipline it is today. Just as the term Popular Culture describes the widest range of practices, Popular Culture Studies cover the most heterogeneous objects. While this very diversity makes it exciting as a research field, it presents a challenge in terms of methods and approaches. To promote scientific exchanges at international level, Popular Culture Studies need elements of comparability and theorization. The biennial conference of the Royal Irish Academy, hosted by the School of Modern Languages at Queen’s University Belfast, intends to offer a forum for discussion between academics, teaching and researching in the fields of Popular Cultures. It will consider the benefits of studying Popular Cultures in Modern Languages Studies and seek to map current areas of research. It presents a distinctive opportunity to discuss corpora and contrast approaches.

Keynote Speaker Professor Diana Holmes (Leeds): ‘On Popular Cultures and the Middlebrow’

For full details please click here. 

Please send 200-word proposals by the 1^st of October 2013 to the conference organisers:

Dr Tori Holmes, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, QUB :  t.holmes@qub.ac.uk
Dr Dominique Jeannerod, French Studies, QUB :  d.jeannerod@qub.ac.uk
Dr Federico Pagello, Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, QUB : f.pagello@gmail.com

For further information and updates about the conference please visit http://blogs.qub.ac.uk/popularculture/.

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