CFP Specificity of Fantasy (Spec Issue of Literature) (8/31/2022)

Special Issue "The Specificity of Fantasy"

source: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/literature/special_issues/fantasy

Special Issue Editors
Special Issue Information
Keywords
Published Papers

A special issue of Literature (ISSN 2410-9789).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2022.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Geoff M. Boucher E-Mail Website SciProfiles
Guest Editor


Faculty of Arts and Education, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
Interests: Frankfurt school critical theory; psychoanalysis; postmarxism; fantasy literature; anti-authoritarianism

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is now a decade since Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn noted, in The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, that, by contrast with science fiction, “the study of fantasy has only just moved on from attempting to define the form”. Since then, against the background of an emergent scholarly consensus on fantasy as the “literature of the impossible,” new research has explored marvellous settings, gothic monsters, children’s fantasy, invented myth, race in fantasy, high adventure and epic fantasy, and fantastic modernism. At the same time, we have seen an explosion of fantasy subgenres, innovative fantasy works celebrated internationally, cultural controversies and the politicization of awards, and a scholarly boom around writers such as JK Rowling, George RR Martin, and Phillip Pullman. In light of all of this, and of the constantly increasing popularity of fantasy literature, together with the global impact of the work of figures such as NK Jemisin, Brandon Sanderson, and Nnedi Okorafor, it is high time to sum up where it is that we think the study of fantasy has moved on to, and where it should go to next.

The aim of this Special Issue of Literature is to map this “where to?” by surveying the new diversity, mapping theoretical developments, and inviting provocative proposals for new research. We are especially interested in thinking about what is specific to fantasy, that is, how the literature of the impossible facilitates particular kinds of literary intervention or catalyzes particular sorts of imaginative response. The literature of the impossible, it must be supposed, meets some human need, makes some cultural contribution, performs some social role, or has some political implication that is specific to the form or particular to its characteristic themes and motifs. But what is it? And what do individual writers or particular works illuminate about how fantasy matters to the wider culture?

This Special Issue of Literature invites contributions around these questions, which may address the contemporary space of reflection on fantasy through theoretical arguments, general surveys, close readings of particular works, or innovative approaches to popular fiction. Responses might, but do not have to, zero in on themes such as:

• How does fantasy fit within the wider field of speculative fiction, and does it do anything that other kinds of speculation cannot do?
• What might be the formal features or substantive themes that determine the political orientation, social implications, or cultural role of a fantasy work?
• What is known about magical systems or monstrous ontologies in fantasy literature, and how might this affect the implications of fantasy?
• Are there particular genres of fantasy, or rhetorical modes, that are more likely than others to intervene culturally?
• How do innovative kinds of crossover fantasy disturb established literary boundaries and make new sorts of intervention possible?
• Is it possible to connect the politics of the reception of fantasy, especially in controversial contexts, to any formal or substantive features of fantasy?
• Do fantasy works express cultural conjectures, “what if” scenarios, and how do these relate to social reality or the natural world?
• Is there any such thing as emancipatory fantasy, or authoritarian fantasy?

Please send proposals to Dr. Geoff M. Boucher at boucher@deakin.edu.au by 31 May 2022; completed essays are due 31 August 2022.

Dr. Geoff M. Boucher
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Literature is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

fantasy literature
speculative fiction
popular fiction
fantasy genres
literature of the impossible
the imaginary
literary conjectures
utopian fiction

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.

CFP Adapting Bridgerton Collection (4/30/2022)

Of potential interest: 

Adapting Bridgerton

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/02/24/adapting-bridgerton

deadline for submissions:
April 30, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Valerie Frankel

contact email:
valerie@calithwain.com



Adapting Bridgerton

If Jane Austen and the history books present one version of the regency, Bridgerton shows a far different one. While the series had many surprises for viewers, it’s less clear what’s responsible. Does this come from being a 2020 show? From Netflix style? From the romance novels source material? Let’s consider and also weigh what worked and what didn’t. I’m seeking essays on:

Length will depend on how many submissions arrive. They will be in MLA format, secondary sources welcome, scholarly be approachable and fun for fans. Abstracts Due April 30, with a rolling acceptance, essays due June 30.

Please send to valerie@calithwain.com with a subject of Bridgerton.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following:

• The music, lighting, and other staging effects.
• Context: comparisons with Downton Abbey, Outlander, The White Queen, Austen adaptations, etc.
• Netflix franchises
• The show’s origin in a romance novel
• Costume and manners anachronisms
• The sex scenes
• Race
• Consent in the MeToo era
• Fan response/fans changing the content
• Memes, reviews, fanfic and other online responses to the show

Last updated March 16, 2022

CFP See and Be Seen: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Storytelling and Identity in Popular Culture (6/1/2022; New Zealand 9/13-14/2022)

See and Be Seen: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Storytelling and Identity in Popular Culture

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/02/03/see-and-be-seen-an-interdisciplinary-conference-on-storytelling-and-identity-in

deadline for submissions:
June 1, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Popular Culture Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology

contact email:
pop.centre@aut.ac.nz



Popular Culture Research Centre,

Auckland University of Technology

13-14 September 2022

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Katie Ellis (Curtin University, Australia)

Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell (Auckland University of Technology)

The Popular Culture Research Centre (Auckland University of Technology) welcomes papers for its upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the theme of ‘storytelling and identity’ in popular culture. The conference will be a hybrid event (allowing for both in-person and online presentations), and will be held on 13-14 September 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Practices of storytelling are at the centre of the ways in which popular culture disseminates information. In our Twenty-first century context, we tell stories through the foods we eat, the images we share, the people we follow on social media, the shows we watch, and the music we listen to. From film to television, from Twitter accounts to the latest fandom trend, popular culture provides us with channels through which our narratives of the everyday can transform from immaterial notions to very material and tangible objects of consumption. At the centre of our ways of storytelling lies the formation of our identities. Popular culture is privileged in its ability to both reflect and influence the way we live, how we see ourselves, and how we want to be seen by others. As an event, ‘See and Be Seen’ responds to the important and multifaceted part played by storytelling in popular culture.

The conference invites abstracts for presentations related to the theme of ‘storytelling and identity’ in popular culture. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

• Fictional narratives (from film to literature, television, comics, and beyond)
• Popular genres and media
• Consumerism and (im)materiality
• Social and online media
• Sharing cultures and cult followings
• Fandom and celebrity
• Popular icons
• Trends and fads
• Depicting ‘reality’ in popular media and culture
• Biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs
• Practices of remaking and re-adaptation
• Fashion, design, and culture
• Aesthetics and desire
• Food cultures, histories, and representations
• All matters of taste
• Cuisine and identity
• Gender identities and politics
• Sex and sexualities
• Family matters (including functions and disjunctions)
• Spirituality and religion
• Matters of life and death
• Gothic and horror (in all their guises, as related to storytelling and identity)
• Memory, remembering, and mis/remembering
• Popular performances
• Environmental matters
• Stories of love and romance
• Popular culture and the news
• Authenticity and accuracy
• Race, ethnicity, and Indigenous discourses
• Heritage and historiography
• National politics and identities
• Global vs local narratives and identities

Abstracts (of around 250 words) should include your name, affiliation, e-mail address, the title of your proposed paper, and a short bio (100 words max). Please email abstracts to the attention of the conference organisers at: pop.centre@aut.ac.nz

The deadline for submissions is 1 June 2022.




Last updated March 16, 2022

CFP of Interest: Critical Essay Collection on THE GOLDEN GIRLS (5/31/2022)

Not fantastic-related but of value to share given the impact of the show:

Critical Essay Collection on THE GOLDEN GIRLS

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/02/01/critical-essay-collection-on-the-golden-girls

deadline for submissions:
May 31, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Jill E. Anderson, Assist Prof of English

contact email:
goldengirls2022collection@gmail.com



This call is for critical essays for a proposed edited volume centering on the iconic television show The Golden Girls for Routledge’s Advances in Pop Culture series.

The Golden Girls’s seven seasons spanned 1985 to 1992 and produced one spin-off (The Golden Palace). With a cast of established actors and recognizable guest stars, the series won critical acclaim, several awards, and was the anchor of NBC’s Saturday night line-up for years. The series tackled some serious and timely matters—the HIV/AIDS crisis, immigration, teen pregnancy, sexual assault, same-sex marriage, elder care, environmental concerns, miscegenation, nuclear war, and financial and medical worries for the aging—along with regular arcs involving ageism and sexism. Throughout, Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia modeled strong, supportive female friendships, typifying the bonds possible amongst four self-possessed women finding their own way in their golden years.

In the decades since the series finale, The Golden Girls has enjoyed a nostalgic status for some viewers while becoming a “comfort watch” for an entirely new generation. Fandom has produced many tributes: one now-defunct themed restaurant in NYC; podcasts; Instagram and other social media accounts and memes; multiple books including coloring books and children’s stories; board games, tarot cards, and playing cards; merchandise like t-shirts, tote bags, Funkos, Chia Pets, and saints’ candles; and drag queens and puppet shows. The show’s continued appeal and now iconic status make it an area ripe for cultural analysis.

We invite scholars to send proposals for critical essays to be included in this collection. While not limited to the following, we are particularly interested in submissions that address:

• · Sexuality and the sex lives of the women in the series
• · Regionalities of the women and discussions of their familial heritage
• · The arc of the “four woman” show and any parallels (i.e. Designing Women, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, Desperate Housewives, Girls, Living Single etc.), both contemporaneous and successive
• · Ageism and its impacts
• · The role of work
• · The role of medical care
• · Discussions of race, class, or other political/social issues
• · Aspects of fandom surrounding the show
• · An examination of any aspect of The Golden Palace
• · The actors’ activism and its ties to the series
• · Fashion and interior design in the show
• · Analysis of the role of comfort watching the series
• · Ties between the actors’ other work/performances and the series

Proposals should be approximately 350 words and copy and pasted (no attachments, please) into an email to goldengirls2022collection@gmail.com by May 31, 2022. Please also include a short author(s) bio, and use this email for any questions. **EDITED TO ADD: we are open to having shorter pieces too if you think you have an interesting topic that might not constitute a "normal" academic length. Just make note of that in your proposal.**

Thank you (for being a scholar),

Jill E. Anderson, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee State University) and Susannah R. Young (Owner/Principal at Susannah Young Creative Communications)




Last updated March 17, 2022

CFP Science Fiction from the Margins (Spec Issue of Panic at the Discourse; 5/1/2022)

Science Fiction from the Margins

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/04/science-fiction-from-the-margins

deadline for submissions:
May 1, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Panic at the Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal

contact email:
panicatthediscourse@gmail.com



We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

- Ursula LeGuin, 2014

Science fiction includes a myriad of thematics from futurism, technology, transhumanism, apocalypse, other-worldliness, interspeciality, alterity and to history. As a result, its’ texts and images bear more of a ‘family resemblance’ than a generic codification. However, at the core of science fiction is an imagining of the world as other than it is­—whether that be by space travel, super-powers, or magic. This special issue of Panic at the Discourse, “Science Fiction From the Margins,” seeks to think and imagine the world otherwise with care and focus to marginalized understandings, ontologies, and epistemologies.

The guest editors invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

• Science fiction as minority pedagogy and methodology
• Troubling the history of science fiction as a genre/mode of film, literature, politics, etc.
• Instrumentalization of science fiction as theory and politics
• Engaging science fiction as ‘cult’ or ‘low’ art in film, television, literature, comics, art, and other mediums, thinking about how they challenge the boundaries of their respective media
• Imagining alternative histories and/or futures of racial formations
• Exploring real life science fictional phenomena (cloning, speculations about alien life, advanced forms of AI) and the anxieties produced by these phenomena
• Examining how dystopian fiction has engaged/failed to engage with forms of political domination
• Connections between form and minority politics including but not limited to dispossession, exile, displacement, and racialization

We welcome submissions from a range of disciplines including, but not limited to: Philosophy, Literary Studies, Film and Media Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, and Indigenous Studies. All submissions should be written for an interdisciplinary audience.

Additionally, we accept a wide range of submissions from poetry, visual art, creative writing, reviews, and traditional scholarship. Traditional articles must be between 4000-6000 words and reviews a maximum of 750 words.

All submissions will undergo a review process by the publication editorial team. Works selected for publication will receive editorial queries for revision. Publication will be contingent on satisfactorily resolving all queries. Included images must be high resolution and have accessible descriptions. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain image permissions. Use Chicago style endnotes for any citations. Please include a brief author bio of no more than 50 words. Authors retain all rights to their work. Email the publication if you have a work you are unsure about.

Send all submissions to panicatthediscourse@gmail.com with the subject line “Submission: Article Title” by May 1st, 2022.





Last updated April 7, 2022

CFC Countdown to Hallmark Collection (7/15/2022)

This is a neat idea:

Call for Chapters: Countdown to Hallmark

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/04/call-for-chapters-countdown-to-hallmark

deadline for submissions:
July 15, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Carlen Lavigne / Red Deer Polytechnic

contact email:
carlen.lavigne@rdpolytech.ca



Since launching its hugely popular “Countdown to Christmas” made-for-TV movie series in 2009, Hallmark has expanded its offerings of American small-town romances to include Valentine’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, New Year’s, and Hanukkah, as well as winter, spring, summer, fall, and “Christmas in July.” Dozens of original films are planned and shot each year, often in Canadian locations such as Vancouver and Ottawa. These now-year-round productions are formulaic, heteronormative, Christian, and overwhelmingly white—and they have been undeniably commercially successful, rocketing Hallmark to cable success and spawning imitations across multiple platforms.

Contributions are invited for this multinational, multidisciplinary collection of essays studying Hallmark Channel movies and Hallmark’s current dominance in the North American media landscape. The collection is intended as part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series. Topics explored may include, but are not limited to:

• Christian markers, secular tensions, and “inclusivity” (e.g. Hanukkah films)
• Heteronormative patterns and/or queer influences
• Racial diversity and/or BIPOC erasure
• Disability narratives and/or disability erasure
• Parenthood and challenges or reinforcements of nuclear family structures
• Evangelical Christianity and “Boycott Hallmark” movements
• Nostalgic casting (e.g. sitcom stars from the '80s and '90s)
• Urban and rural—images and myths of the big city vs. small-town America
• Capitalism, labour, and women’s careers
• The Hallmark script formula and the romance genre
• Jane Austen and other literary influences
• Escapism and formula TV during COVID or other disaster times
• Cross-promotion (e.g. Hallmark greeting cards, sweaters, tie-in novels)
• Comparisons between Hallmark productions and competitors such as Netflix and Lifetime

Submit an abstract of 250-400 words and a short bio to Dr. Carlen Lavigne (carlen.lavigne@rdpolytech.ca) by July 15, 2022. Accepted articles of 5000-6000 words will be due by January 15, 2023.


Last updated April 8, 2022

CFP Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Women and Gender in Star Trek (5/31/2022)

A post in honor of First Contact Day:

Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Women and Gender in Star Trek

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/06/space-the-feminist-frontier-essays-on-women-and-gender-in-star-trek

deadline for submissions:
May 31, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Jennifer Garlen

contact email:
jennifer.garlen@gmail.com



Co-editors Jennifer C. Garlen and Anissa M. Graham are currently seeking proposals for an anthology of feminist essays examining the past and present of Star Trek. We are looking for feminist readings that engage any of the Trek films, television series, or related media (games, books, convention culture, etc). We welcome any proposals considering the roles of women and gendered identity in Star Trek and are especially interested in intersectional feminist criticism that also addresses issues of race and sexuality. Graduate students and independent scholars are welcome to submit proposals. Accepted contributors will receive author credit for their work as well as a free copy of the final publication, pending acceptance of the book proposal by an academic publisher. For questions or proposal submissions, please email Jennifer at jennifer.garlen@gmail.com.

Jennifer and Anissa are the co-editors of two previous essay anthologies for McFarland: Kermit Culture (2009) and The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson (2013). Both have also contributed to several academic essay anthologies about film, television, and popular culture.




Last updated April 8, 2022

CFC What Writing is Like: The Many Worlds of Russell T Davies (7/30/2022)

Call for Contributions to a Book: What Writing is Like: The Many Worlds of Russell T Davies

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/07/call-for-contributions-to-a-book-what-writing-is-like-the-many-worlds-of-russell-t

deadline for submissions:
July 30, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Anindya Raychaudhuri, University of St Andrews

contact email:
ar220@st-andrews.ac.uk



Russell T Davies has been one of the foremost voices in British television for the last three decades. The range of Davies’s work is formidable - from his early work on children’s television such as Dark Season (1991) and Century Falls (1993), to his ground-breaking work creating programmes such as Queer as Folk (1999-2000), Bob and Rose (2001), The Second Coming (2003) and Mine All Mine (2004), to his phenomenally successful rejuvenation of Doctor Who (2005), through to his more recent work such as Cucumber (2015), Years and Years (2019) and It’s a Sin (2021). In the process, he has indelibly transformed the British televisual landscape.



The proposed volume will be the first major, book-length scholarly appraisal of his works. We are looking for 6000–7000-word chapters on any aspect of Russell T. Davies and his work. Innovative, interdisciplinary, and comparative approaches are encouraged. Possible topics may include:

• Sex and sexuality
• Religion
• Wales and welsh identity
• Politics
• Science fiction and fantasy
• Children’s television
• AIDS pandemic
• Dystopian futures
• The Television Industry
• Televisual Forms

University of Wales Press has expressed interest in this volume, and we will be submitting a formal proposal by the end of the year.



Please submit a short abstract (250 words) and a biographical outline to ar220@st-andrews.ac.uk by 30 July 2022. Full papers will be due around December 2022.




Last updated April 8, 2022

CFP Academic Track of Multiverse Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention (6/30/2022; Atlanta 10/14-16/2022)

Multiverse Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/05/multiverse-science-fiction-and-fantasy-convention

deadline for submissions:
June 30, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Multiverse Convention

contact email:
Learn@Multiversecon.org



Call for Submissions

Multiverse Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention

Event Date & Location: October 14-October 16, 2022, Westin Atlanta Perimeter North, 7 Concourse Parkway in Sandy Springs
Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2022
Name of Organization: Multiverse Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Organization Website: https://www.multiversecon.org
Contact Email: Rhonda Jackson Joseph, Learn@Multiversecon.org

CONVENTION THEME:

Multiverse Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention was formed from our belief that great stories don’t only come from the books and comics we love to read. Each fan is their own universe as well, with their own unique story to tell. Added together, these infinite stories create the Multiverse of modern fandom.

This Multiverse also informs the creation of works of speculative fiction, a body of work encompassing every imaginable academic field. In this light, we seek to create a multidisciplinary academic program that will showcase the innumerable ways speculative fiction is inspired by various branches of academia.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:



Multiverse Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention is seeking academic presentations of 15, 25, and 45 minutes in length for our 2022 convention. While we require presentations to reflect rigorous academic scholarship, we are not requesting conference paper readings. Presentations only, please.

We are seeking presentations that approach an academic topic in a way that non-academic audiences will find accessible and entertaining. Ideally, presentations will incorporate a core theme or topic of interest to speculative fiction fans.

Example topics may include, but are not limited to:

● An interesting historical event that garners immense speculation. What really happened?
● A comparison between modern governments and dystopian societies
● The application of a sociological lens in examining a popular speculative fiction TV show or movie
● From a scientific angle, could one of the monsters from horror tropes really exist?
● How might the fantasy elements of speculative fiction lend themselves to child development in teaching various lessons?
● A chemistry presentation that teaches children how to create spider webbing
● A presentation on new, emerging technologies or scientific breakthroughs (e.g., artificial intelligence, biotech, space travel, etc.)

Presentations on specific authors, works of fiction, or genres within speculative fiction are also welcome. Of particular interest are presentations on the works of any of our Guests of Honor and/or focuses on voices within speculative fiction that are not typically amplified.

Please note: we would like to include at least one presentation per convention day that fits our theme and is targeted to a child/family audience, so please submit those presentation proposals, as well. Our definition of child/family targeted includes any images, videos, or handouts accompanying the presentation.

Please provide the following in your submission:



● 300-500 word abstract
● Preliminary bibliography
● Length of presentation (15, 25, or 45-minute category)
● 100-word professional biography (should reflect academic credentials)
● Any required props or specialized A/V equipment
● Do you have any special accommodations or additional requests we should be aware of? (any request for a video presentation should be indicated here, please)
● What are your pronouns?



Email your submissions and/or questions to Rhonda Jackson Joseph at: Learn@Multiversecon.org

Accepted presenters will receive a complimentary convention membership for 2022 and may be invited to participate in other panels within the convention’s other programming tracks. If you would like to be considered for other programming at the convention, separately or in conjunction with your proposed academic presentation, please fill out our guest application.

Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis up until July 31, 2022.



Last updated April 7, 2022

CFP Open Call for Popular Culture Review - Submissions for General Issues

Popular Culture Review - Submissions for General Issues

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/10/22/popular-culture-review-submissions-for-general-issues

deadline for submissions:
January 10, 2021

full name / name of organization:
Popular Culture Review - University of Nevada Las Vegas, Dept. of English

contact email:
greena@unlv.nevada.edu



Popular Culture Review seeks to publish compelling, well-argued, and well-researched articles on a variety of topics related to popular culture.

Submissions undergo a rigorous peer review process.

General Issues are published in March. Submissions must be received by January 10th for that year's General Issue.

Please see our submission guidelines and instructions at our new website: https://www.popularculturereview.org/submissions.html




Last updated April 8, 2022

CFP MAPACA 2022 (Princeton, NJ 11/10-12/2022)

Just announced: 

2022 MAPACA Annual Conference Call for Papers: Princeton, NJ – Nov. 10-12, 2022

This is the early April MAPACA newsletter. Our next conference is November 10-12 in Princeton, NJ.

Source: https://mapaca.net/newsletter/general/202204011323

In This Newsletter, We Have:

• Our Call for Papers for the 2022 Annual Conference
• Our Statement on Covid

2022 Call for Papers

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA)

2022 Annual Conference

November 10-12, 2022

Princeton, NJ — Princeton Marriott at Forrestal

Call for papers:

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Princeton, NJ. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.

Proposals should take the form of 300-word abstracts, and may only be submitted to one appropriate area. For a list of areas and area chair contact information, visit mapaca.net/areas. General questions can be directed to mapaca@mapaca.net. The deadline for submission is Thursday, June 30, 2022.

MAPACA’s participants are comprised of college and university faculty, independent scholars and artists, and graduate and undergraduate students. MAPACA is an inclusive professional organization dedicated to the study of popular and American culture in all their multidisciplinary manifestations. It is a regional division of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association, which, in the words of Popular Culture Association founder Ray Browne, is a “multi-disciplinary association interested in new approaches to the expressions, mass media and all other phenomena of everyday life.”

For more information, visit mapaca.net.

Covid Statement:

We look forward to welcoming you to our 2022 conference this November. The Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) is monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely. Check the MAPACA website at mapaca.net or follow MAPACA on Twitter @mapacanet or Facebook facebook.com/mapacanet for the latest information.

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA)

P.O. Box 1358

Lansdowne, PA 19050

mapaca@mapaca.net

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