2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference:Contemporary Studies
2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference:Contemporary Studies
full name / name of organization:
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
contact email:
jhines7@knights.ucf.edu
2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference
Call for Papers
Contemporary Studies Area
Thursday-Sunday, 6 - 9 October 2016
Chicago, IL
Hilton Rosemont Chicago O’Hare
Deadline: April 30th, 2016
The Contemporary Studies Area of The Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its upcoming Conference in October 2015.
Proposals will be accepted from any area relating to contemporary studies culture. Potential topics could include, but are not limited to:
• Society, Politics and Literature
• The appeal of Trump Rhetoric: Terror, Politics and Thought
• The concept of Memory and Commemoration in the 21st Century
• From Masses to Memes: Communication in the 21st Century
• Deconstruction of traditions
• Apocalypse: The Revolutionary Transformation of Culture
• The Vampire/Zombie: Modernity and the Undead
• Rewriting gender
• Intersecting Bodies, Selves, and Environment
Please upload 250 word abstract proposals on any aspect of contemporary studies to the Contemporary Studies area athttp://submissions.mpcaaca.org/
Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address with the 250 word abstract.
Questions? Please email Jasara Hines at, jhines7@knights.ucf.edu
More information about the conference can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Please note the availability of graduate student travel grants:http://mpcaaca.org/conference/travel-grants/
Jasara Hines
jhines7@knights.ucf.edu