Health, Disease, and Popular Culture Call for Papers NEPCA 2018 Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

2018 NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION (NEPCA) ANNUAL CONFERENCE

HEALTH, DISEASE, AND POPULAR CULTURE AREA

Worcester State University, Massachusetts

OCTOBER 19-20, 2018

The Health, Disease, and Popular Culture area addresses a number of topics and approaches in historical and contemporary perspective including:

Cultural contexts of narratives of illness from patient and health practitioner perspectives in novels, short stories, memoirs, graphic comics, etc.

Portrayals of patients and health professionals in marketing, advertising, social media, film, television, etc.

Social determinants of health discourse including race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, class, place, population health equity

Global Health, Climate Change

Cultural discourses of infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, emerging infectious diseases, chronic illnesses and noncommunicable diseases

Healthy Lifestyle and Healthy Promotion in popular media

Food Security and Insecurity as portrayed in popular media

Health politics and policy portrayals in visual and print culture

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will hold its 2018 annual conference at Worcester State University, Massachusetts the weekend of October 19-20, 2018. The DEADLINE for submission of proposals is June 1, 2018.   NEPCA welcomes individual papers and complete panels.  Please direct program questions to Rob Weir at weir.r@comcast.net 

Please follow instructions for submitting an abstract and registering for the conference found on the NEPCA website at

https://nepca.blog/2018-conference/ 

The Chair for the Health, Disease and Culture area is Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman, MCPHS University, Boston, MA:

Jennifer.Tebbe-Grossman@mcphs.edu    She can answer questions about your abstract proposal. You should consult with the area chair before finalizing your proposal and submitting it to the program chair following the instructions on the NEPCA website address above.

Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman, School of Arts and Sciences, MCPHS University, Boston, MA 02115