Proposed Panel: East Asian/Japanese Celebrity Cultures I am looking for presenters for a panel on celebrities and star systems in East Asian media, with an emphasis on film, television, and advertising. Potential proposals may focus on film stars, tarento, and/or idoru production/maintenance networks or on individual personae. Please contact Colleen Laird ([log in to unmask]), PhD Candidate at the University of Oregon and Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For the sake of panel cohesion, I am particularly interested in papers related to Japanese media industries (with an eye to contemporary figures), but I welcome all interested inquiries regardless of geographic specificity. If there is a strong collection of papers across borders, I am willing to alter the scope of the panel to accommodate. Please send me an email with an abstract (250 words max) and a brief bio. Thank you. -- Colleen A. Laird Lecturer of Japanese Studies Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures University of North Carolina at Greensboro Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) Japanese Film and Gender Studies Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures University of Oregon ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]