Showing posts with label Popular Culture Association. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Popular Culture Association. Show all posts

Sunday, September 20, 2009

CFP: Annual Joint Conference of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations: Biography & Popular Culture

CFP: Annual Joint Conference of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations: Biography & Popular Culture
St. Louis, Missouri, March 31-April 3, 2010
Deadline: December 15, 2009

The annual joint conference of the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, March 31-April 3, 2010. The Biography and Popular Culture Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions from scholars of various disciplines.

The Biography and Popular Culture Area will examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged.

Potential topic might include:
· Biography and entertainment, art, music, theater
· Biography and film
· Television programs about biography
· Biography and urban legends
· Biography and folklore
· Biography and literature
· Scholarly Biography
· Controversial Biography
· Psychoanalysis and Biography
· Historical Biography
· Political Biography
· Autobiography

Prospective presenters should send a one-page abstract and a one-page vitae to Susie Skarl via email: susie.skarl@unlv.edu by December 15, 2009.

For more information on the PCA/ACA Conference, please visit the official website: For information on the conference, please visit:

http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php

If you have any questions regarding the submission of papers, please feel free to contact: Susie Skarl, Urban Affairs Librarian, UNLV Libraries susie.skarl@unlv.edu

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS: BIOGRAPHY SECTION - POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION

CALL FOR PAPERS: BIOGRAPHY SECTION - POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
Popular Culture/American Culture Association National Conference
April 8-11, 2009
New Orleans Marriott
http://www.pcaaca.org

The Biography section of the Popular Culture Association announces a call for papers on Biography and Popular Culture. Please submit a proposal for a panel of four presenters or individual panelist proposals on any themes concerning political biography, historical biography, film or theater and biography, art or literature and biography, memoir or autobiography and popular culture. Panels run 90 minutes, each panelist has 20 minutes for presentation with questions and answers. Proposals must not be more than one page, include a one page curriculum vitae, make sure to include name, mailing address, institutional affiliation, phone number, and email address. Do not send proposals via electronic mail.
Send an email OR paper copy of proposals to

Susie Skarl
susie.skarl@unlv.edu
Urban Studies Librarian
LLB 1174
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 895-2141
Fax: (702) 895-2147
Please include your name, affiliation, mailing address, email address, and
phone number
Deadline for proposal submissions is December 15, 2008.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

CFP: Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Meeting 2009)

CFP: Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Meeting 2009)

Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture Area
http://www.pcaaca.org/areas/libraries.php

The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association annual conference will be held April 8-11, 2009, at the New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, Louisiana. Scholars from numerous disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.

The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or research. In the past this has included descriptions of research collections or exhibits, studies of popular images of libraries or librarians, analyses of web resources such as Wikipedia and YouTube, and reports on developments in technical services for collecting popular culture materials.

Papers from graduate students are welcome.

Prospective presenters should send a one-page abstract with full contact information (electronic preferred) by November 30 2008, to:

Allen Ellis
Professor of Library Services
W. Frank Steely Library
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101
USA
859-572-5527
FAX: 859-572-5390
E-Mail: ellisa@nku.edu


For more information, see the conference website at http://www.pcaaca.org

CFP: BIOGRAPHY SECTION - POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION

CFP: BIOGRAPHY SECTION - POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
http://www.pcaaca.org/


2009 National Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, Wednesday, April 8 through Saturday April 11.
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Biography section of the Popular Culture Association announces a call for papers on Biography and Popular Culture. Please submit a proposal for a panel of four presenters or individual panelist proposals on any themes concerning political biography, historical biography, film or theater and biography, art or literature and biography, memoir or autobiography and popular culture. Panels run 90 minutes, each panelist has 20 minutes for presentation with questions and answers. Proposals must not be more than one page, include a one page curriculum vitae, make sure to include name, mailing address, institutional affiliation, phone number, and email address. Do not send proposals via electronic mail.

Send a paper copy of proposals to

Susie Skarl
Urban Studies Librarian
LLB 1174
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 895-2141
Fax: (702) 895-2147
susie.skarl@unlv.edu


Deadline for proposal submissions is 30 November 2008.

Thank you so much in advance!
Susie Skarl

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

CFP: Libraries, Archives and Museums Section of the Popular Culture Association

CFP: Libraries, Archives and Museums Section of the Popular Culture Association
Location: California, United States
Call for Papers Date: November 30, 2007

The Popular Culture Association will be holding its annual joint meeting with the American Culture Association March 19 – 22, 2008, at the San Francisco Marriott in San Francisco, California. Scholars from numerous disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.

The Libraries, Archives, and Museums area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or research. In the past this has included descriptions of research collections, studies of popular images of libraries or librarians, analyses of web resources such as Wikipedia and YouTube, and reports on developments in technical services for collecting popular culture materials.

Papers from graduate students are welcome.

Prospective presenters should send a one-page abstract (with full contact information) by November 30 2007, to:

Allen Ellis
Professor of Library Services
W. Frank Steely Library
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101
USA
859-572-5527
FAX: 859-572-5390
E-Mail: ellisa@nku.edu

For more information, see the conference website at http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php