“The Future Imaginary in Collecting”
Accepting Late Submissions: December 15, 2023
The Collecting and Collectibles Area of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on
“The Future Imaginary in Collecting” for the 2024 National PCA/ACA Conference to be held on March 27-30 in Chicago USA
We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles imagine the future.
Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
- Heritage collections and global futures
- Heritage collections and indigenous futures
- Transformational anxieties in collections/collectibles
- Hybridization in collections
- Collections and the revision of historiography
- Historical ruptures in indigenous collectibles
- Migratory collections and global economy
- Collections and the production of migratory knowledge
- Collections and the collective action of new social memory
- Displacement and evasion in collections/collectibles
- Collectibles/collections as construction
- Collectibles/collections as narration/storytelling
- Re-archiving and flexible archiving
- Indigenous collectibles in the Digital Age
- Ekphrasis of futures in collections/ collectibles
- Visionary dispersal of indigenous collectibles
- Counter Imaginaries in indigenous collectibles
- Indigenous collectibles and mutability in new environments
- Indigenous collectibles and alternative contexts of display
- Imaginary worlds of collections from different cultures
- Collections/collectibles and the future of reality
- Collections/collectibles and authentic technology futurist
- Substitutes of collectibles and resilient authenticity
- Galleries/museums of the future
- Botanical collectibles and scientific imaginaries
Interested individuals are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words (including presentation title); 100-word mini-biography, complete contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, and contact telephone number). ACCEPTS UNDERGRADUATE SUBMISSIONS. Submissions will only be accepted through PCA website.
Please send all inquiries to:
Majda R. Atieh, PhD
Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman