MAPACA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium Call for Proposals

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) Virtual Symposium, to be held on July 20, 2025. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome. The online event is open internationally and we especially invite anyone unable to attend our in-person conference in November. Presenters are welcome to submit separate proposals for both this Summer Virtual Symposium and our in-person conference in November.

Proposals should take the form of 300-word abstracts and may only be submitted to one appropriate area. For a list of areas and area chair contact information, visit our Areas Page. General questions can be directed to mapaca@mapaca.net. The deadline for submission is May 31, 2025.

MAPACA’s participants are college and university faculty, independent scholars and artists, and graduate and undergraduate students. MAPACA is an inclusive professional organization dedicated to the study of popular and American culture in all their multidisciplinary manifestations. It is a regional division of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association, which, in the words of Popular Culture Association founder Ray Browne, is a “multi-disciplinary association interested in new approaches to the expressions, mass media and all other phenomena of everyday life.”

For more information, about our Summer Virtual Symposium and to login and submit a proposal, visit mapaca.net.