popular culture

This collection, to be published by McFarland press, aims to update existing theories of orality in the light of technological advancements which have altered communication practices on a large scale. Although these shifts in communication practices affect both genders, this book looks specifically at how the last century of technological inventions have specifically affected women's means of communication. Women have long been stereotypically associated with the oral realm. We aim to reexamine the so-called essentialist notion of women's relation to oral culture by attending to their shifting practices at the onset of the 21st century.

Genre, Invention, and Modernity in Nineteenth Century Spain
The complex interdisciplinary, hybrid nature of nineteenth-century cultural, social, and political modernization in Spain is revealed in literature, art, and science. This panel seeks papers that examine how various kinds of productions (including fiction, the press, poetry, machines, scientific treatises and discoveries) overlap and interact to communicate their underlying ideologies or the contemporary hegemonies that would come to be. Please send 300-word abstract in English, Spanish, or Catalan by September 30, 2009 to Paula.A.Sprague@dartmouth.edu

Please include with your abstract:

Seeking papers on psychological aspects of literature and film, with special emphasis on the "madness" of characters or themes. "Madness" can be defined by various psychological, medical or sociological criteria.

Panel at the 41st Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA, April 7-11, 2010 Montreal, Quebec - Hilton Bonaventure.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Sigma Tau Delta – Xi Alpha Chapter announce an extended submission deadline for The Second Annual Graduate and Undergraduate Student Conference
on Literature, Composition and Rhetoric

For the 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, March 31-April 3, 2010 at the Renaissance Grand Hotel St. Louis

We welcome papers on various subjects pertaining to conspiracy theories, to pseudoscience and to beliefs in the paranormal. This year, we would like to dedicate some of our time to conspiracy theories pertaining to Barack Obama's and his administration.

Please send 150-200 word abstracts and a brief CV by the deadline of December 15, 2009. Electronic submissions are welcome and preferred.
 
Conspiracy Theories and Belief in the Paranormal Area Chair:
Tamar Gablinger , Humboldt University, Berlin
gablingers@gmail.com

CFP: James Bond and Popular Culture SWPCA 2010
James Bond and Popular Culture
Rweiner5@sbcglobal.net

31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010
Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association
http://swtxpca.org/
Submission Deadline: 12/15/09, Priority Registration Deadline 11/1/09
Conference Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505.842.1234

The SW/TX PCA/ ACA invites papers on ANY aspect of James Bond films, books, toy, games, actors, children's fare, theology, etc..,

SWTXPCA-2010
Call for Presentations: Transgressive/Exploitation/Grindhouse/Arthouse- Cinema Panels
Co-Chairs
Rweiner5@sbcglobal.net
Robert G. Weiner
John Cline john-cline@mail.utexas.edu

CFP-SWPCA-Call for Papers/presentations-Graphic Novels, Comics, and Popular Culture 2010 conference

31st Annual Conference February 10-13, 2010
Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association
http://swtxpca.org/
Submission Deadline: 12/15/09, Priority Registration Deadline 11/1/09
Conference Hotel:
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505.842.1234

The SW/TX PCA/ ACA invites papers on Comics, Graphic Novels, Popular Culture
Any Aspect of Comics and Graphic Novels in Popular Culture will be considered.

Some topics could include

CFP Affinities #4 – What is Radical Imagination: Horizons beyond "The Crisis"

Edited by Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven

The social crises of neoliberalism, so evident and provocative throughout the rest of the world, have finally come "home" to the global North in the form of a cataclysmic financial crisis wreaking havoc on the lives of people, workers and communities, intensifying already intolerable injustices and inequalities and justifying the intensification of surveillance, policing and militarization.

We are looking for scholarly essays, nonfiction, essays, or creative works that explore the rhythm and beat of literature, history, and culture. What is the influence of rock and roll on literary production? How does culture come alive through music? How do we teach a generation used to picking and choosing music for an IPod?

While the conference theme is noted above, we will consider all topics related to American Studies.

The conference will be held in San Angelo, TX Nov. 12-14. For more information, contact John Wegner (john.wegner@angelo.edu) or Terry Dalrymple (terry.dalrymple@angelo.edu).

Women and Families: MP Journal is seeking academic papers, book reviews and other well written inquiries on the subject of women and families. Some possible topics may include: mothers and daughters, stereotypes of mothers in culture and/or literature, women and children, child welfare as it relates to feminism, marriage (same sex or opposite sex), women and careers vs. family responsibilities, sibling relationships, women and their fathers, women who choose not to have children, family planning, or any other subject that interrogates women's relationship to family. Submissions may be in any accepted academic format such as MLA, APA, Legal Bluebook, Chicago Style but must be consistent throughout and thoroughly and carefully edited.

Guest Editor: Dr. David A. Hatch, Utah Valley University