Welcome to H-PCAACA, a member of the H-NET Humanities Online initiative. H-PCAACA encourages scholarly collaboration and discussion about popular, American and world cultures. This network, affiliated with The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, also serves as an invitation for scholars and graduate students to join the activities of these internationally recognized organizations.

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Discussion published by Christa DiMarco on Monday, September 14, 2020

Call for Participation | New Committee on Diversity & Inclusion, Nineteenth Century Studies Association

The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Board invites volunteers for a new committee to promote diversity and inclusion within our organization. This committee will be devoted to taking an active stance in addressing the lack of racial and ethnic diversity in nineteenth-century scholarship.

Discussion published by Elvira Rodríguez Martín on Sunday, September 6, 2020

CFP Eikon Imago, vol. 10 (2021). Miscellany and Monographic Issue (Eternal Sadness: Representations of Death in Visual Culture from Antiquity to the Present Time, ed. Luis Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez )

Our scientific journal Eikón / Imago, edited by the CAPIRE research team at the Complutense University of Madrid, is already working on the next issue. It is an annual academic publication whose research interest focuses on iconography and visual culture, from a thematic scope that encompasses the forms and meanings of the images of any era, culture or country, as well as any thematic, typological or disciplinary variant: religious, mythological, political, musical, fantastic, animalistic and other.

Each issue of Eikón / Imago Magazine consists of three sections:

Discussion published by sara dallavalle on Tuesday, August 25, 2020

CFP Teaching Popular Culture in Intermediate Language Courses (Roundtable) NEMLA 2021

In the recent years, foreign language teaching has advocated for an increasingly intermedial and interdisciplinary approach, one that enables instructors to expand course materials and integrate a wide array of popular and current cultural products. Advanced courses in literature and culture can develop curricula that more liberally incorporate popular culture into teaching. Yet intermediate courses must combine cultural components with the introduction or the review of grammar structures.