The Design History Forum at Drexel University invites papers for its inaugural Undergraduate Symposium in Material Culture Studies (USMCS) to be held via Zoom on Saturday, March 12th, 2022. Proposals are due by November 20, 2021.
Calls for Submissions
Media studies scholar Carmel Cedro is calling for chapter abstracts for a new edited collection, to be part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series. 300-word abstracts, including a title and short biography, are due by December 17th, 2021.
The popularity of the Netflix Series The Chair seems to be tied to its hyperbolic depictions of faintly legitimate power struggles that circulate on contemporary college campuses. But in focusing on the slapstick character Bill Dobson (male, white, hopelessly romantic), the narrative offers a
The Age of Enlightenment saw the emergence and development of science fiction as a way of imagining different futures and of making sense of the world and humanity through scientific and technological advances. This macro genre not only explores imagined (dys/u)topias but
Contemporary popular culture texts increasingly showcase representations of girls and young women in a myriad of ways. There are common tropes that we as audiences have come to expect in stories of girlhood, which usually concern navigating friendships, self-discovery, familial drama, teenage
The Department of English, Philosophy, and World Languages at Arkansas State University opens a call for papers and presentations for the twenty-seventh annual Delta Symposium April 13-16, 2022. The Delta Symposium features a wide variety of scholarship and creative work that focuses
The Mythology in Contemporary Culture area is dedicated to exploring mythological stories, figures and themes from all cultures and historical periods in all areas of popular culture. The frequent appearance of mythological motifs in popular culture speaks to the notion that mythologies,
The 9th dgv Conference of the Section “Digitisation in Everyday Life”, taking place at the Institute of Anthropological Studies in Culture and History at the University of Hamburg on 15-16 September 2022 (tbc), is now open for submissions. The conference theme is
Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden is collaborating with The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) in hosting a four day conference “ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER: Black Germany and Beyond”on February 17-20, 2022. The conference will be the culmination of our year
Members of the Special Topic on Happiness and Culture of the Popular Culture Association seek paper proposals for the 2022 PCA conference in Seattle. The papers may focus on any aspect of the relationship between happiness (tentatively understood as subjective well-being) and