Call for Papers

The conference will explore, but not necessarily be confined to, such issues as:

• The role of popular entertainments in community and personal well-being
• Spaces and spatiality of the popular: the unbounded venue
• Popular entertainments and tourism, travel and leisure
• Popular entertainments in a mediatised culture
• Circulation, exchange and transmission: cosmopolitanism, trans-nationalism and mobility
• Censorship, surveillance, regulation and control
• Tradition, memory and nostalgia
• The 'popular' reinvented
• Popular audiences
• Audience / spectator agency
• Historiography of the popular
• Popular entertainments and the archive: presence and absence
• Nation-building, national identity, and popular entertainments
• Spectacle and celebration
• Popular science and history
• Skills and their transmission: the practices of the popular
• Economics of the popular
• Risky business: violence, cruelty, aggression, risk and danger
• Performing the popular

The Call for Papers is now closed.