Call For Papers: Pop Culture Association of Canada

Hey folks,

Passing this along as it may be of some interest to some of us who'll miss out on the EMP conference (or even those who didn't, and just can't get enough of these things).

CFP: Popular Culture Association of Canada (PCAC)
2nd Annual Conference, May 10th-12th, 2012

The 2nd Annual Conference of the Popular Culture Association of Canada will be held at the Sheraton on the Falls Hotel, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

We invite proposals for papers and/or panels on theories of popular culture, research methods in popular culture, the teaching of popular culture, and any epiphenomena of popular culture, past or present.

Our broad definition of popular culture encompasses communicative texts, practices and experiences, mediated and unmediated, contemporary and historical, Canadian and non-Canadian (including the local and the global).

We share an interdisciplinary vision of this Association. We are particularly interested in featuring papers from scholars and/or producers and practitioners of popular cultural phenomena from the humanities, the arts, and the sciences.

To that end, we are interested in continuing to promote work in:

Film & Television
Cultural History
Music
Race, Gender, Class & Ability Studies
Theatre
Media
Communication
Queer Studies

We also seek to broaden the scope of our conversations by encouraging and promoting panels that draw from fields frequently under-represented in Popular Culture Conferences such as (but certainly not limited to):

Medieval & Early Modern Texts
Popular Environmentalism(s)
Science in/as Popular Culture
Food and Beverage Cultures
Non-mass Mediated Entertainment
Sport & Game Studies
Politics in/of Popular Culture
Tourism Industries and Theory

Single paper proposals should consist of a title, an abstract of no more than 200 words, and a list of keywords or key phrases (maximum 5), and should be accompanied by a brief biographical note of 100 words or less. Panel proposals should include all of the above information for each presenter, plus a proposed title for the panel and a brief rationale. For more information visit us at www.canpop.ca.

The deadline for proposals is January 15, 2012. The conference organizers will endeavour to contact all potential participants by mid-February, 2012.

Please send proposals (or any press/media inquiries) to the conference co-chairs: confere✧✧✧@can✧✧✧.c✧

Stuart Henderson Katja Lee Scott Henderson
History English & Cultural Studies Communication, Popular Culture & Film
McMaster University McMaster University Brock University

OK, that last part came out kind of a mess. Email contact is confere✧✧✧@can✧✧✧.c✧ and co-chairs are Stuart Henderson, Katja Lee and Scott Henderson.

It's been an ambition of mine for years to undertake an in-depth study of Count Floyd's influence on notions of transgression and identity in modern horror films. I'm working up a proposal right now.

Media, Mosaic and the Metacommunity: Al Waxman's Legacy

I posted this just before the big meltdown, but the deadline has been extended to January 31. The site, which I neglected to include before:

http://www.canpop.ca/2012-conference/2012-call-for-papers

Bruno Gerussi's Medallion vs. Relic's Toque: The Object as Signifier of Mediated Hyperculture.

Any other ilxor's gonna be there? I'll be presenting my paper on a certain much-loathed-on-ILM artist on Friday.