FRIAS Conference - Popular Culture And Democracy

Popular Culture And Democracy: Opportunities, Challenges, And The Way Forward

Popular culture facilitates interactions with, as well as representations of, democracy through its broad accessibility and mainstream appeal. It therefore offers a plethora of venues to explore how individuals, audiences, industries, and institutions engage with democracy through such diverse objects and mediums as social media platforms, movies, video games, or podcasts. Thus, against the backdrop of the current democratic and anti-democratic developments in the English-speaking world, these interactions present both opportunities and challenges that offer grounds for important academic exploration.

This interdisciplinary PhD and early career conference, organized by doctoral candidates in British and North American literary and cultural studies at the University of Freiburg, aims to highlight the connection between popular culture and democracy in the English-speaking world.

If you are interested in attending the conference, please get in touch via email 

Travel

How to get to Freiburg?

By train
Long-distance train connections to Freiburg are available at https://next.bahn.de/

By bus
Long-distance bus connections to Freiburg are available at
https://www.flixbus.de/fernbus/freiburg-ibr

By car
Motorway A5 brings you to Freiburg, either from the direction of Basel or Karlsruhe.

By plane
Frankfurt Airport is an airport where a lot of international flights arrive. Upon arrival in
Frankfurt Airport, Freiburg can be reached by booking a long-distance train
connection (takes approx. 2,5 h).

Airport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (EuroAirport) is located in the South of Freiburg.
An Airport Shuttle Bus can be booked here: https://www.freiburger-reisedienst.de/index.php

Conference Contact

Kyra Vogt

Organisation

• Kristina Seefeldt
• Kelly Schmidt
• Ece Ergin
• Klara Machata
• Sophie-Constanze Bantle
• Kübra Aksay