CFP: PopMeC, Instituto Franklin–UAH (Alcalá de Henares) on May 27–28, 2020
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2020/cfp-popmec-instituto-franklin-uah-alcala-de-henares-on-may-27-28-2020/
February 11, 2020
PopMeC Conference
Instituto Franklin–UAH (Alcalá de Henares) on May 27–28, 2020
Thanks to the pervasiveness of popular culture in everyday life, its
products embody a fundamental driving force in forging the collective
imaginary of both national and foreign publics. The timely construction,
consolidation, and intrinsic political potential of popular
representations—myths, symbols, images, and signs—has undeniably
facilitated the shaping of identities, discourses, and communities. The
diversity and peculiarities of the American society can therefore be
traced through the analysis of popular culture and multimodal cultural
expressions, conveyed by means such as film, comics and graphic novels,
TV and web series, videogames, music, books, and whatnot.
PopMeC aims at providing a collaborative, engaging, and fair
environment for any interested scholar, promoting the sharing of
knowledge, experience, and ideas across disciplines and thematic fields.
We’re also working to foster a stimulating space for early career
researchers and postgraduate students in North American studies, thus
we’ll warmly welcome their proposals.
The conference will approach popular media and culture products—as
well as their publics and reception—from an intersectional,
multidisciplinary standpoint and a diverse range of perspectives. We’re
looking for engaging, fresh, interesting papers acknowledging and
exploring a variety of images and narratives, their configurations and
aims, as well as examining the intersectional connections between
identities, politics, and history, traceable in and across cultural
products.
We welcome proposals for 20 min individual papers or panels
constituted of three papers, on topics including (but not limited to):
> the representation of specific ethnic / religious / gender /
etc. groups in the US popular media and culture (including mainstream,
alternative, and self-representations)
> the articulation of American national ethos, myths, symbols and heroes
> public history and the representation of US history for the non-specialized public
> the reception of popular culture products and their publics
> comparative studies of contrasting / similar representations
> the US society as represented through humor, caricature, and satire
> deconstruction of national storytelling and stereotyped narratives
Please, send your proposal by April 5, 2020 to popmec.call@gmail.com
attaching your abstract (200-250 words), inclusive of a short bio
(100-120 words), name, affiliation, and email contact in a single file.
All proposals (unless differently specified by the author) will be
considered for both presentation in the conference and publication on
the academic blog. Feel free to check our author guidelines page and to
contact us for further information.
The languages of the conference will be English and Spanish.
Nonetheless, we strongly recommend limiting the use of Spanish
coherently with your chosen topic.
Registration fee:
> Full 45€ for waged scholars
> Reduced 15€ for unwaged scholars (e.g. postgraduate students, independent researchers)
[Coffee breaks and light lunch will be provided]
Key dates:
> April 5 deadline for proposals
> April 14 notification of acceptation and opening of registration
[We plan on doing a first round of evaluations by March 8 so that if
your proposal needs a little retouching, we let you know and you can
still resubmit it!]
Further details on keynote speakers, venue and registration will be provided shortly.
Organizing committee @ Instituto Franklin–UAH:
> Daniel Bustillo
> Carlos Herrero
> Anna Marta Marini
> Joaquín Saravia
Download the full CFP here: CFP_popmec
https://popmec.hypotheses.org/
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