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Call for Papers, Abstracts, and Panel Proposals:

PEDAGOGY & POPULAR CULTURE AREA

2018 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference

Indianapolis, IN

(Extended) Proposal Submission Deadline: MAY 15, 2018

Main Conference: Thursday – Sunday, October 4-7, 2018

Hyatt Regency, 1 S Capitol Ave, Indianapolis IN 46204                         Phone: (317) 632-1234

Dates: Wednesday 31 October and Thursday 1 November 2018

Venues: Conference - St Peter’s Church, Bournemouth

Keynote Speakers:

• Sir Christopher Frayling, Chancellor, Arts University Bournemouth
• Professor Elaine Graham, University of Chester
• Professor Sir Peter Cooke, CRAB Studios (TBC)

In 1849, Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley’s heart were brought to the graveyard of St. Peter’s Church in Bournemouth, where they were buried with the remains of Mary Shelley’s parents Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.

SCSECS invites proposals for papers or panels for the 2019 annual meeting. This year’s conference will be held in Dallas, Texas, 21-23 February, at the Magnolia Hotel. Located in the heart of downtown, the Magnolia provides easy access to some of Dallas’s most beloved cultural and culinary destinations.

Prisons, prisoners, and crime are attracting unprecedented levels of interest from both predictable sources (tabloid media) to more unexpected (such as the prison setting of Paddington 2).

Globally, but especially in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, the real life prison population is rising dramatically. The fictional presentations of prison, which may be prurient and sexploitative, high minded or fantastical, is matched by the barely factual and highly sensationalized prison of reality television. Orange is the New Black is only the latest example of the compulsion media of all types have to look inside the prison.

SUSTAINABLE WORLDS, DISPOSABLE LIVES

Comparative Literature