CONFERENCE PROGRAM

TUESDAY, JUNE 26

8.30 am– 9.30 am REGISTRATION and Welcome Coffee (Hall)

9.30 am – 11.00 am PLENARY (Aula 1) INSTITUTIONAL GREETINGS Romana Andò, Scientific Committee Chair, Sapienza Università di Roma, Sean Redmond, Scientific Committee, Deakin University. ​ ​ ​ Keynote: Misha Kavka, University of Auckland, Taking Down the Sacred: Fuck-me vs. Fuck-you Celebrity ​ ​ ​ Chair: Romana Andò, Sapienza, Università di Roma ​ ​ 11.00 am – 12.45 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 Medievale)

CLASSIC STARDOM LITERATURE AND CELEBRITY CELEBRITY NEWS CELEBRITY CULTURE PERSPECTIVES

Francesca Cantore, Sapienza, Università Andrea Carteny, Sapienza Università di Katja Friedrich, Ursula Ohliger, Lawrencia Agyepong, Ghana Institute of di Roma, Giulia Muggeo, Università di Roma, A woman celebrity of belle époque: Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Journalism, Reconceptualising Celebrity ​ ​ Torino, Reshaping and estranging the star. Valentine de Saint-Point between Journalistic narratives of celebrity success Capital: Advancing the Application of ​ The case of Alberto Sordi and Walter Futurism, Feminism and Esotericism and failure. A qualitative analysis of Bourdieu’s Fields’ Theory in Celebrity Chiari German celebrity news Studies Alison Lutton, Somerville College, Harriet Fletcher, Lancaster University, “I’m University of Oxford, JT LeRoy on screen: Megan Le Masurier, University of Sydney, Lorraine York, McMaster University, ​ ​ Ready for My Close-Up”: The Horror of the re-animation of a desecrated celebrity The ultimate desecration? The new indie Unseemly: Affect, Gender, New Media and Faded Stardom in Billy Wilder’s Sunset author women’s magazines and the the Denunciation of 21st-Century Fame Boulevard disappearance of celebrity Hunger Sally Totman, Deakin University, Mapping ​ Agata Frymus, University of York, ‘Love, the Celebrity Bell Curve: the Bethany Usher, Newcastle University, Chair: Ruth Deller, Sheffield Hallam ​ ​ Lust and Liz’: Elizabeth Taylor as swinging gender narrative in explorers of “When journalists attack”: Celebrity, University Cleopatra in the discourse of the 1960s Arabia journalism and the deconstruction of identities as a mechanism for social Chair: Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary, Chair:Alessandro Saggioro, Sapienza, control ​ ​ University of London Università di Roma Ana Maria Velasco Molpeceres, Universidad de Valladolid, The evolution of ​ the celebrities in Spain: the role of the media (from Hola magazine to Cuore)

Chair: Giulia Rossi, Sapienza, ​ Università di Roma

12.45 pm – 1.45 pm LUNCH (Hall) 1.45 pm– 3.30 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 Medievale) Seminari)

SEX SCANDALS NATIONAL IDENTITY CELEBRITY POLITICIANS THE TRUE COST OF FAME SOCIAL MEDIA CELEBRITY

Lynne Joyrich, Brown University, Safa Canalp, Humboldt University, Suzanne Leonard, Simmons College, A Charlotte De Backer, Gaëlle Ouvrein, Neil Alperstein, Loyola University ​ Affronting Stardom/Confronting Sexual Emotional Alliances: Erdogan’s Celebrities Husband’s Disgrace: Huma Abedin, Heidi Vandebosch, University of Antwerp, Maryland, Selling out and Sailing Onward: ​ Harassment Anthony Weiner, and the 2016 American “Sometimes you have to let haters know How Micro-Celebrities Manage their Paula Gilligan, ADT Dun Laoghaire, ‘Lord Presidential Election their place”. A framing analysis on Self-Presentation on Social Media ​ Anita Brady, Victoria University of of the Sweat Pants’-Michael Flatley, celebrity testimonials on their experience Wellington, Houses of Cards and Closets: Symbolic Violence, and Global Irish Diane Negra, University College Dublin, of and coping with cyberbullying Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Università di ​ Coming Out as Scandal Management identities in the era of Brexit and Trump Ivanka Trump and the New Plutocratic Urbino Carlo Bo, Elisabetta Zurovac, (Post)feminism Stevie Marsden, University of Leicester, “I Università degli Studi di Sassari, Invisible ​ ​ Sabrina Moro, Nottingham Trent Sophie Nika, National and Kapodistrian didn’t know you could read”: Questioning followers, ephemeral content and University, Fallen Like a House of Cards? University of Athens, ‘I love to hate you’: Mark Wheeler, London Metropolitan the legitimacy of Kim Kardashian’s status unaggregating hashtags: performing and ​ ​ Kevin Spacey’s Celebrity Image Amidst Greek audiences deconstructing Greek University, Celebrity 'Outsider' Politicians as a literary and cultural intermediary perceiving the microcelebrity status in ​ Sexual Assault Allegations celebrities in the Digital Realm: Donald Trump's 2016 Snapchat US Presidential campaign and first year in Brandy Monk-Payton, Fordham University, Melanie Piper, University of Queensland, Chair: Gaston Franssen, University of office Of Tabloids and Tableau Vivants: Kanye Stefano Brilli, Università di Urbino Carlo “Comedian, masturbator”: Revisiting the Amsterdam West’s Art of Infamy Bo/IUAV Università di Venezia, Where is ​ ​ authenticity of Louis C.K. in light of his Chair: Andrea Carteny, Sapienza the sacred in online celebrity? Praise, sexual misconduct scandal Università di Roma Lindsay Steenberg, Oxford Brookes loath and physical interaction with Italian University, We Can Rebuild him. We have webstars ​ Chair: Sean Redmond Deakin the Technology: Celebrity Fitness University Regimes and The Discourses of Violence Chair: Hannah Hamad, Cardiff ​ ​ University Chair: Laura Gemini, Università di Urbino, “Carlo Bo”

3.30 pm– 4.30 pm– PLENARY_KEYNOTE (Aula 1) Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary, University of London, Beautiful penitent whore: the desecrated celebrity of Mary Magdalene, Superstar ​ Chair: Hannah Hamad, Cardiff University ​ ​ 4.30 pm – 5.00 pm COFFEE BREAK (Hall)

5.00 pm – 6.45 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 Medievale) Seminari)

CELEBRITY AND RELIGION, GENDER AND CELEBRITY CULTURE DESECRATION IS A FEMINIST ISSUE: THE PURSUIT OF FAME AT ALL CELEBRITIES IN BRAZILIAN FAVELAS: CELEBRITY AS RELIGIOUS ABJECT AND ASPIRATIONAL COSTS: IDENTITY WORK AMONG CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP THROUGH Jamie Hakim, University of East Anglia, CELEBRITY YOUNG CELEBRITIES AND FAME Anna Maria Lorusso, Università degli Studi The Celebrity Male Nude Leak: CONSUMERS di Bologna, Popularity and Populism neoliberalism and feminising the male Laura Clancy, Lancaster University, ‘Best Camila Franco Monteiro, University of ​ ​ body in times of crisis female role model’? A feminist desecration Annebeth Bels, Hilde Van den Bulck, Huddersfield, The whitening process to ​ Simona Romani, Paolo Peverini Paolo, of Kate Middleton University of Antwerp, Social Media mainstream: Funk celebrities and the ​ Università LUISS Guido Carli, Pope Melanie Kennedy, Kaitlynn Mendes, Celebrities as Salient Resource for white approach to reach larger audiences ​ Francis: the representation of a celebrity University of Leicester, ‘Which celebrities Debra Ferreday, Lancaster University, Preteens’ Identity Work between actions and narratives are marching, who’s throwing the epic Desecrating Rihanna: the affective politics Fabiana Moraes, Universidade Federal de after party’: Representations of celebrity of white feminism Pilar Lacasa, Julián de la Fuente-Prieto, Pernambuco, Poverty and celebrification ​ Isabella Pezzini, Bianca Terracciano, feminists Sara Cortés, University of Alcalá, in everyday life: negotiation and Sapienza Università di Roma, The Kate McNicholas Smith, University of Adolescents as cultural activists: Remixing confrontation of the new deprived and ​ Pope-celebrity and the role of cinema Celia Lam, University of Nottingham, Westminster, Miley Cyrus: pop celebrities in fandom communities famous on Instagram ​ Jackie Raphael, Curtin University, Risky performance as queer feminist desecration ​ Chair: Alessandro Saggioro, Sapienza Business in Bromance Stephanie Patrick, University of Ottawa, Thiago Soares, Universidade Federal de Università di Roma Chair: Shelley Cobb, University of Desecrating Disney: The 2007 Celebrity Pernambuco, Performance and cultural ​ Anthea Taylor, University of Sydney, Southampton Photo Hacks and Crisis in American citizenship: Methodological scripts for “Steve is twice the Aussie icon you will Hegemonic Femininity favela celebrities in Brazil ever be”: Germaine Greer, The Crocodile Hunter’s Death, and Misogynistic Hate Chair: Romana Andò, Sapienza Chair: Giovanna Gianturco, Sapeinza Speech Università di Roma Università di Roma

Chair: Sean Redmond Deakin University

7.45 pm GALA DINNER at Casa Dell’Aviatore (VIALE DELL’UNIVERSITÀ, 20)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27

8.30 am – 9.00 am REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE (Hall)

9.00 am – 10.00 am PLENARY_KEYNOTE (3) (Aula 1) ​ ​ Martin Shingler, University of Sunderland, Bette Davis: Actor, Star & Celebrity ​ Chair: Gaston Franssen, University of Amsterdam ​ ​ 10.00 am – 11.45 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 (Aula B ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 Medievale) Seminari)

GENDER & POLITICS PUBLISHING CELEBRITY LGBT CELEBRITY CULTURE SO SCANDALOUS NATIONAL IDENTITY 2

Jeff Scheible, King’s College, Risk’s Gaga Nick Canty, Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, Ben Aslinger, Bentley University, Roy Cristina Colet, Università di Torino Elaine Chung, SOAS, University of ​ ​ Feminism University College London, Tiny Hamster Cohn and Queer Villainy (DAMS), Ruan Lingyu (1910-1935): London, National Identity and Collective ​ ​ ​ disrupts the book publishing industry, and celebrating a star, desecrating the Star Desecration: Transnational Cindy Smith, Radical Loneliness and a Little other stories: the rise of the Joanna McIntyre, University of the woman Stardom of Korean Actresses and ​ Masculinity: Kristen Stewart’s Ideological micro-celebrity author Sunshine Coast, ‘I’m old and bitter and Online Nationalism in Chinese Social ​ Resonance in Illiberal America fat’: Nadia Almada, transnormativity, and Susan Hopkins, University of Southern Media Katja Lee, University of Western Australia, the rise and fall of a transgender Queensland, Ipswich campus, Courtney ​ Ellen Watts, Royal Holloway, University of London, “Boswellized from mere persons to celebrity Love & Trainwreck Femininity Camille Nadine Magsalin, De La Salle ‘I really love to hate other celebrities!’ How Emma personages”: Arthur Stringer, Mary University, THE STANDARD ​ Watson’s legitimacy as a political representative is Pickford, and the Trouble with Celebrity Clare Southerton, University of Carina Mansey, City, University of REPACKAGED: Image, Screen constructed through anti-celebrity comparisons Profile(r)s Melbourne, Hannah McCann, Australian London, The Saint of Chefs and the Persona, and Star Production of Eugene ​ National University, Repetitions of Savoy Scandal Domingo ​ Anna Zsubori, University of Leicester, Authentic Jessica Martin, University of Leicester, Desire: Queer Reading in One Direction ​ Disney celebrity heroines and the representation of Jack Monroe and Negotiating Authenticity Fan Culture Chair: Sean Redmond, Deakin Chair: Neil Ewen, University of gender and race in Disney Princesses as an Austerity Celebrity University Winchester Lucy Watson, University of Sydney, Chair: Romana Andò, Sapienza Università di Jeroen Jansen, University of Amsterdam, Identifying with desecration: LGBT Roma Publishers strategies and celebrity in the responses to celebrity meltdown seventeenth-century Netherlands Chair: Paola Bonifazio, University of Chair: Gaston Franssen, University of Texas at Austin Amsterdam

12.00 am – 1.45 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 (Aula B ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 Medievale) Seminari)

CHALLENGING AUTHENTICITY IN CELEBRITY SOCIAL CELEBRITY DAVID BOWIE: CELEBRITY DESECRATING ITALIAN CELEBRITIES IN THE HIGHEST ACTIVISM: STRATEGIES OF POLITICAL AND DESECRATION, FLUIDITY AND CELEBRITIES. SCANDALS, FAME SPHERES: DEGRADATION, CULTURAL AUTHORITY Ben Little, University of East Anglia, The CRITIQUE MIGRATIONS AND MEDIA EFFECTS CELEBRIFICATION, AND ​ New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: DESACRALIZATION OF SAINTS, Lene Bull Christiansen, Roskilde University, The Bloomberg.com Business Celebrity Toija Cinque, Deakin University, David Antonella Mascio, Università di Bologna, POPES, AND ANGELS ​ ​ ​ celebrity branded activist campaign: a case study Profiles Bowie: Desecration and Desire in the 1992/1993. The story of the degradation of the Danish pop-singer Medina’s Mevation* Social Mediasphere of political celebrity through the fiction Paola Bonifazio, University of Texas at project Alison Winch, University of East Anglia, framework Austin, Maria Goretti Superstar: Female ​ Who owns the future? The visions of Mark Ian Dixon, Deakin University/ SAE Sainthood, Celebrity, and Fandom Helle Kannik Haastrup, University of Copenhagen, Zuckerberg Institute, Fame, Rotting On The Slimy Silvia Vacirca, Sapienza Università di ​ The Celebrity as Activist and Cultural Critic: Emma Thoroughfare: David Bowie’s Roma, “Il caso Tortora”: assuming the Ruth Deller, Sheffield Hallam University, ​ Watson’s Feminist Book Club & The Handmaids Hilde Van den Bulck, Aaron Hyzen, Desecrating Celebritization between celebrity's guilt ‘All hail the comedy vicar’: clergy as Tale University of Antwerp, Of Lizards and ‘Diamond Dogs’ and ‘Blackstar’ celebrity ​ Men: Infowars’ Alex Jones and the Rachel Haworth, University of Hull, Katrine Meldgaard, University of Southern Articulation of Fandom and Anti-Fandom Lisa Perrott, University of Waikato, Legacies of Scandal in the Giancarlo Lombardi, CUNY Graduate Denmark, “Bombing the idea of the state as a in the Celebrity-Populism Nexus David Bowie, Hauntology and Uncanny Celebritization Process: The Case of Center, Holy Celebrity: The Young Pope ​ ​ health authority to pieces”: celebrity and Celebrity. Mina, Italian Popular Music Diva antivaccination advocacy Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson Chair: Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Chair: Sean Redmond, Deakin Chair: Martin Shingler, University of College, Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan ​ Chair: Neil Ewen, University of Winchester Università di Urbino, “Carlo Bo” University Sunderland University, ‘The Winx Club: Angelic ​ Celebrities, Pastoral Edutainment.’

Chair:Alessandro Saggioro, Sapienza Università di Roma 1.45 pm – 2.30 pm LUNCH (Hall)

2.30 pm– 4.15 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 (Aula B ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 Medievale) Seminari)

CELEBRITY CULTURE AND CRIME FRAMING CELEBRITY HISTORICAL FIGURES BETWEEN CELEBRITY GOSSIP FAME AND CELEBRITY STUDIES’ ACCREDITATION AND HISTORICAL TURN – 1: THE Glen Donnar, RMIT University, Fran Diana-Luiza Dumitriu, Elena DEGRADATION Charlotte De Backer, David Giles, INVESTIGATION OF REPUTATION, Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, Negrea-Busuioc, National University of (Italian Research Network in Celebrity Gaëlle Ouvrein, Heidi Vandebosch, RENOWN, RUMOUR AND SCANDAL Promoting Terrorism, Desecrating Celebrity: The Political Studies and Public Culture in conjuction with PhD in University of Antwerp, Why are you (ANTIQUITY, MEDIEVAL, AND ​ Case of ‘Jihadi John’ Administration, Back to square one: History of Europe Sapienza interested in celebrity gossip? Scale RENAISSANCE PERIODS) ​ visualizing and verbalizing celebrity Università di Roma) development and validation of the Jacque Lynn Foltyn, National University, Celebrity Gossip Motives Scale P. David Marshall, Deakin University, Desecrating the Celebrity Corpse: Postmortem Jilly Boyce Kay, Helen Wood, University of Sara Pesce, Università di Bologna, Introduction Performances Leicester, The Business of Reality Luxury Pays. Marie Antoinette Queen of Gemma Horton, University of Sheffield, ​ Celebrity and its ‘Illegitimate’ Cultural Fashion An unwanted spotlight: Examining the Charles Hedrick, UC Santa Cruz, Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University, Celebrity Labour right to privacy of celebrities against the Antiquity and its organization of ​ Mugshots and the Digital Celebrification of Crime Lucio Spaziante, Università di Bologna, right to freedom of expression in the fame/celebrity: the tension of reputation Celia Lam, University of Nottingham, Bob Dylan as an anti-celebrity Nobel United Kingdom and scandal Chair: Bianca Terracciano, Università della Baseline of normality: outlining levels of Prize laureate Tuscia acceptability in non-mainstream Australian Brigitte Weingart, University of Cologne, Gianni Guastella, Università di Siena, celebrities Fabio Cleto, Università di Bergamo, “I made that bitch famous”: Auto-Gossip From Rumour to Glory: the Notorious: Oscar Wilde, the queer “it” and Reputation Management Personification of Fame in the Middle Chair: Lawrencia Agyepong, Ghana and the grammar of celebrity Ages Institute of Journalism Chair: Laura Gemini, Università di ​ Chair: Isabella Pezzini, Sapienza Urbino, “Carlo Bo” Arnoud Visser, Utrecht University, The ​ Università di Roma Renaissance of Fame

Chair: P. David Marshall, Deakin University

4.15 pm– 4.45 pm– COFFEE BREAK (Hall)

4.45 pm – 5.45 pm PLENARY_KEYNOTE (4) Aula 1 Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, Desecration and the Politics of ‘Image Pollution’: Ambedkar Statues and the ‘Sculptural Encounter’ in India ​ Chair: Sean Redmond, Deakin University ​ ​ ​ 5.45 pm – 7.30 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 (Aula B ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 Medievale) Seminari)

ASIAN STARDOM AND CELEBRITY POLITICAL UNIONS: THE HOLLYWOOD STARS GIRL MELTDOWN: GIRLS, SCANDAL FAME AND CELEBRITY STUDIES’ CELEBRIFICATION OF THE AND CELEBRITY HISTORICAL TURN – 2: THE Rastogi Akriti, Jawaharlal Nehru University, BRITISH-AMERICAN SPECIAL Mark McKenna, University of FORMATIONS OF CELEBRITIZATION Instagrammatically (In)Correct: A study of RELATIONSHIP Sunderland, Sylvester Stallone: Fiona Handyside, University of Exeter, AND CELEBRIFICATION? ​ transmedia celebrities of contemporary Hindi film Analogue Actor / Digital Celebrity Becoming the ‘anti-girl’: Shopping and INVESTIGATION OF PUBLIC industry Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton, Scandal in Contemporary Hollywood INDIVIDUALITY AND SCANDAL IN “Political Soulmates”: Reagan, Thatcher, Timothy Robeers, Hilde Van den Bulck, THE ENLIGHTENMENT, REVOLUTION Nandana Bose, FLAME University, Faking it?: The and the Powerful Chemistry of Celebrity University of Antwerp, ‘Hypocritical Danielle Hipkins, University of Exeter, AND CONTEMPORARY ERAS ​ ​ Ranaut-Roshan Bollywood Celebrity Scandal Coupledom Investor’ or Hollywood ‘Do-Gooder’? Surviving Berlusconi from the Margins: Media and Audiences negotiating Scandalous girls becoming women in Eva Giloi, Rutgers University-Newark, Sreya Mitra, American University of Sharjah, UAE, Neil Ewen, University of Winchester, “An Leonardo DiCaprio’s legitimate stance the Italian media Twilight of the Gods, Dawn of the ​ Trolled, Body-Shamed and Slut-Shamed: unholy alliance”: Trump and Farage’s as Green Celebrity Activist Heroes: Celebrity, Charisma and Examining the predicament of the contemporary Celebrity Populism Catherine O’Rawe, Bristol University, Hero-Worship as Paths to Power in the Bollywood female star and social media Nathan Smith, Built, Not Bought: Vin Girls, Stardom, and the Danger of Film Age of Revolution ​ engagement Hannah Hamad, Cardiff University, “I Will Diesel and the Engineered Identities of Acting in Post-war Italy ​ Be With You, Whatever”: Blair and Bush’s a Digital Diva, Dungeon Master, and Katja Lee, University of Western Chair: Andrea Minuz, Sapienza Università di Baghdadi Bromance Mechanized Movie Star Chair: Romana Andò, Sapienza Australia, The Contemporary History of ​ Roma Università di Roma the Notorious in the 20th and 21st Chair: Sean Redmond, Deakin Chair: Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary, century University University of London Chair: P. David Marshall, Deakin University

9.00 pm SOCIAL EVENT – JOURNEY THROUGH ANCIENT ROME: FORUM OF AUGUSTUS

THURSDAY, JUNE 28

8.30 am – 9.00 am REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE (Hall)

9.00 am – 10.00 am PLENARY_KEYNOTE (5) (Aula1) Douglas Kellner, UCLA, Donald Trump as (Bad) Celebrity and President, Chair: Neil Ewen, University of Winchester ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 10.00 am – 11.45 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 8 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 8 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 8 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 8 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 8 (Aula B ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ PARALLEL SESSIONS 8 Medievale) Seminari)

FAME DAMAGE CONSTRUCTING CELEBRITY IDENTITY CELEBRIFICATION HOW TO BE INFAMOUS: ON BILL (G)LOCAL POLITICS COSBY Emilio Audissino, University of P. David Marshall, Deakin University, Anne Jerslev, University of Copenhagen, Lawrencia Agyepong, Ghana Institute of Southampton, Episodes and Real Rob: Denouemonument: Fame, Celebrity and Winona Ryder and the return to fame – Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Mette Journalism, The Celebrification of Samira ​ ​ Celebrities at Their Worst the Monumental Instability of saved by the body’s ageing Mortensen, University of Copenhagen, Bawumia, Second Lady of the Republic of Contemporary Culture De-celebrification: From Famous to Ghana Tom Whittaker, University of Warwick, Renata Gravina, Nijinsky and the parable Infamous ​ Deviant noise: Real-life delinquent Hannah Yelin, Oxford Brookes University, of life as a work of art Tomasz Olczyk, Jacek Wasilewski, celebrities and the politics of sound in “Doing” Celebrity: reflexive performance, Sarah Anne Dunne, University College University of Warsaw, Trajectories of ​ Spanish film distancing and self-elevation Anna Seidl, University of Amsterdam, Dublin, Defending and Desecrating desecration and sanctification of ​ Falling Stars: Ageing and Dance Cosby: How Digital Discussions of the Bill celebrities and celebrity politicians Arrigo Bonifacio, Sapienza Università di Stefano Livi, Sapienza Università di Cosby Case Depict Contemporary Roma, Revamp celebrity throughout its Roma, When Hollywood went to Moscow. Chair: Silvia Vacirca, Sapienza Feminist Politics and New Misogynies Valentina Signorelli, University of ​ ​ desecration: the case of Marshal Tito The image of Stalin in the film “Mission to Università di Roma Westminster, Famous Last Words – A ​ Moscow” (1943) Katja Lee, University of Western Australia, Comparative Focus on Resignation Chair: Bianca Terracciano, Università P. David Marshall, Deakin University, Speeches to Trace Contemporary ​ ​ ​ della Tuscia Chair: Romana Andò, Sapienza Honorary Degrees for Celebrities and the European Instability: The Case of David Università di Roma Case of Bill Cosby Cameron and Matteo Renzi

Matt Yockey, University of Toledo, Chair: Gaston Franssen, University of Trickstered: Bill Cosby and the Politics of Amsterdam Race in American Comedy

Chair: Misha Kavka, University of Auckland

12.00 am – 1.45 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 9 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 9 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 9 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 9 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 9 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 9 Medievale) Seminari)

POP CELEBRITY INFLUENCERS & YOUTUBE SPORTS STARDOM CELEBRITY VISIONS WHO RUN THE (MUSIC) WORLD? GIRLS! Carlos K. F. Cheung, The Chinese Lucia Caro-Castaño, David Selva-Ruiz, Diana-Luiza Dumitriu, National University Deborah Jermyn, University of University of Hong Kong, Unfriending the Universidad de Cádiz, Making visible the of Political Studies and PA, University of Roehampton, Barefaced: Ageing Female Hunter Hargraves, California State ​ ​ ​ pseudo-local star: Localism and the non-visible: an ethnographic study about Bordeaux, The walk of shame as part of Celebrity and ‘No Make-Up’ Photography University, A Moment for Mariah: On Diva ​ ​ disintegration of the precarious fandom for women that prescribe home and personal the sports’ success dialectics Time G.E.M. Tang in Hong Kong care goods on YouTube Melanie J. Kennedy, University of Spring-Serenity Duvall, Salem College, Leicester, ‘trust us, Lindsay […] we knew Francesca Moretti, Sapienza Università di ​ Peter Rehberg, Institute for Cultural David Giles, University of Winchester, The Too famous to speak: Desecration of your Mean Girls days were long gone’: Roma, Beyoncé on Instagram: How the ​ ​ Inquiry, Eurovision’s Failed Celebrities performance of authenticity by YouTube professional athletes who use fame to Terry Richardson and the affective pop star perform herself without marketing ​ celebrities protest racial injustice spectacle of young female celebrity authenticity Heli Reimann, Tallinn University, Soviet ​ era celebrities: the starlight of Estonian pop Sinem Gudum, Marmara University, Ana Jorge, Universidade Católica, Mercè Guillome Sirois, Saint Paul University, The Annelot Prins, Freie Universität, From ​ ​ singer Jaak Joala on Soviet estrada arenas Influencer marketing and redefining fame Oliva, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Luis LM ups and downs of the curator: Power and Awkward Teen Girl to Aryan Goddess in Social Media advertisements Aguiar, University of British Columbia, celebrity in the visual art world Meme: Taylor Swift and White Chair: Martin Shingler, University of Leaking and offshoring: Iberian audiences Womanhood ​ Sunderland Chair: Romana Andò, Sapienza react to Cristiano Ronaldo’s tax evasion Chair: Hannah Hamad, Cardiff ​ Università di Roma University Tessa Reed, King’s College London, If ​ Michael Serazio, Boston College, Making You Had My Love: Jennifer Lopez, the ​ and Managing Meritocratic Heroes: The Virginity Movement, and America’s Production of Celebrity Capital in the Sweetheart’s Fall From Grace Sports Media Industries Chair: Paola Bonifazio, University of ​ Chair: Andrea Minuz Sapienza Texas at Austin ​ Università di Roma 1.45 pm – 2.30 pm LUNCH

2.30 pm – 4.15 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS 10 (Aula 2) PARALLEL SESSIONS 10 (Aula E) PARALLEL SESSIONS 10 (Aula F) PARALLEL SESSIONS 10 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 10 (Aula B PARALLEL SESSIONS 10 Medievale) Seminari)

DESECRATING CELEBRITY ZIGGY STARDUST & PURPLE RAIN NO PLACE FOR SISSIES”: CELEBRITY THE UPS AND DOWNS OF FAN-STAR CELEBRITY AND GENDER AND THE AGING FEMALE BODY RELATIONSHIPS Caroline Bainbridge, University of Kirsty Fairclough, University of Salford, Anita Biressi, University of Roehampton, Roehampton, Who will fix it for us? Toxic Purple Reign – Prince, Fandom and the Georges-Claude Guilbert, Université Le Cornel Sandvoss, University of Paying the price: the gendered economics ​ celebrity and the therapeutic dynamics of search for Celebrity Authenticity Havre Normandie, Age, Gender and Huddersfield, What’s wrong with Jeremy of celebrity downfall ​ ​ media culture Politics: the uncommon case of Brigitte Corbyn? Political Celebrity, Fandom and Antonia Velikova, University of Edinburgh, Macron the Public Sphere Gaston Franssen, University of Camila Cornutti Barbosa, FSG, Susan Ashes to Ashes: David Bowie and the Amsterdam, Institutionalizing Anne ​ Liesenberg, ESPM São Paulo, YOU’RE Spectacle of Celebrity Death Brenda R. Weber, Indiana University, Duyan Yektanurşin, Ankara University, A Sexton: Literary Celebrity, Gender, and ​ ​ THE FAMOUS WHO? Reflexions about Flipping the Scripts on Gender, Sexuality, “Touchable” Star: The Changing of Popular Psychopathology sub-celebrities and the dichotomy of a Sean Redmond, Deakin University, David and Aging: Grace and Frankie and Fan-Star Relationship in Yeşilçam Period ​ word Bowie As Cameo Orgasms on Demand Gaylyn Studlar,Washington University in Jonathan Murray, University of Edinburgh, St. Louis, Desecrating the ‘It Girl ​ Barry King, Auckland University of Chair: Misha Kavka, University of Chair: Paola Bonifazio, University of Mayday, Mayday: Theorising Grace Jones ​ ​ Technology, Defacement, creative Auckland Texas at Austin onscreen Chair: Romana Andò, Sapienza ​ mayhem and the mask of celebrity Università di Roma Chair: Neil Ewen, University of Moya Luckett, Bournemouth University, Winchester Pretty Wild: Celebrity and/as Failure

Chair: Ruth Deller, Sheffield Hallam ​ ​ University

4.15 pm – 5.15 pm PLENARY PhD Contest Award: Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola, Covenant University, Interrogating the Nigerian Public Perceptions of Celebrity Advocacy on Women’s Rights (via Skype) ​ ​ ​ FINAL REMARKS