Call for Papers, Abstracts, and Panel Proposals
RACE & ETHNICITY AREA
2017 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference
St. Louis, MO
Proposal Submission Deadline: APRIL 30, 2017
Pre-Conference: Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Main Conference: Thursday – Sunday, October 18-22, 2017
Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch
Address: 315 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, MO 63102 Phone: 314-655-1234
The Race & Ethnicity Area of the MPCA/MACA requests 175-250 word
proposals for papers to be presented at the 2017 Midwest Popular
Culture Association Annual Conference. Proposals for co-authored papers,
complete panels (3-4 presenters), or nontraditional formats such as
workshops, roundtables, open forums, and/or visual/artistic/creative
approaches are also welcomed. Please upload proposals to the Race &
Ethnicity area, http://submissions.mpcaaca.org/.
To create a broadly-ranging discussion of race and ethnicity in
popular culture, we would like to bring into conversation with each
other topics that have tended to be subsumed under other genres or
categories (e.g., SF/F, Film, Pedagogy), as well as those that focus on
more traditionally-studied aspects of race and ethnicity. Submissions
from any/all disciplines are welcome.
Suggested topics and approaches include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Critical race theory, critical and/or comparative ethnic studies, and/or critical whiteness studies;
• Analyses that address intersectional/co-constructed/multidimensional identities;
• Racialization, constructions of ethnicity, and racial/ethnic “performance” in popular culture, including film and television;
• Discussions about the intersections of race, ethnicity, popular culture, and academia, including pedagogy;
• Considerations of the meanings of race and ethnicity in a “postracial” culture;
• How race and ethnicity play into constructions of nationalism in popular culture;
• “Whitewashing” and/or other approaches to racialization in book-to-screen adaptations; and/or
• Mass culture or social media constructions of race and ethnicity
in public discourse, particularly including aspects of the 2016
presidential election and/or the Black Lives Matter movement and/or
immigration executive actions and responses.
Individuals may present only one paper at the conference; please do
not submit the same item to more than one area. Please include name,
affiliation, and e-mail address of each author/participant with the
abstract.
Please plan to attend the entire conference. Panels will run at the
following approximate times: Thursday 8:00 am-6:00 pm, Friday 8:00
am-6:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am-6:00 pm, and Sunday 8:00 am-2:00 pm.
Special events will include game night on Thursday evening, featured
speakers on Friday evening, and an evening keynote speaker on Saturday.
These events, plus continental breakfast on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday, will be free for conference registrants. A preliminary version
of the schedule will be posted on our website around July 2017. The
final version will be distributed in hard copy at the conference.
More information about the conference can be found at
http://mpcaaca.org/stlouis-2017/2017-cfp/. Attendees are financially
responsible for all costs related to their participation in the
conference, e.g., transportation, lodging, meals, registration,
membership, etc. Graduate students are invited to apply for
competitively awarded travel grants from MPCA/MACA. Details are
available at http://mpcaaca.org/conference/travel-grants/.
Special Notes Regarding Proposal Submissions: (1) MPCA/ACA will
provide an LCD projector for presentations. (2) If necessary, indicate
and submit potential scheduling conflicts along with your proposal. (3)
If you wish your presentation to be listed as MACA (rather than MPCA),
please include this request with your proposal.
Questions? Contact Jessica Birch at jessica.elizabeth.birch@gmail.com.
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