Call for WrestlePosium VI Proposals

When Worlds Collide:  Business, Culture, Politics, and the Future Professional Wrestling

The President of the PWSA invites submissions for the association’s WrestlePosium VI. This symposium seeks to bring academic scholarship to the Wrestlemania festivities by connecting wrestling scholars around the world to present their research and ideas.

This virtual symposium will happen online on Saturday, April 26th, 2025, a week after WrestleMania.  For more on the WrestlePosium series, visit: 

https://www.prowrestlingstudies.org/home-2/wrestleposium-the-online-symposium

Special Keynotes:

• Academic Keynote: Shannon Bow-O'Brien, author of Donald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency: Professional Wrestling Rhetoric in the White House

• Professional Keynote: Cory Strode, author Pro Wrestling Insider

Format

Presentations will be given live, via a video conferencing tool, as a virtual symposium. Additionally, all live presentations will also be recorded and collected for later viewing.  Presentations and videos will be no longer than 15 minutes, but applicants can also submit ideas for roundtable discussions and complete panels. Sessions will be scheduled during the day based on the proposals.

Instructions

Interested applicants should submit a 500-word proposal outlining the purpose and scope of their presentation, roundtable or panel. Proposals should include Names, Titles, Institutions (including Independent Scholar, Creator, or Writer), and contact information for all speakers. 

Submissions should be sent to prowrestlingstudies@gmail.com

Deadline for submissions to the symposium is March 15th, 2025.