CFP: Teaching Popular Culture
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association is seeking papers on popular and American culture, broadly construed, for its annual fall conference to be held on Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22, 2016 in Keene, New Hampshire from October 21-22. NEPCA prides itself on holding conferences that emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment. We welcome proposals from graduate students, junior faculty, and senior scholars. NEPCA conferences offer intimate and nurturing sessions in which new ideas and works-in-progress can be aired, as well as completed projects.
In particular, I am the chair of the Teaching Popular Culture area and I'm really interested in hearing about and seeing the different ways instructors use popular culture in their courses--be it their core curriculum or even courses on popular culture. If you have some ideas about a panel as a whole or individual papers that you would like to present on regarding this area, please be sure to submit. A larger goal of this area is to create a place to foster ideas and approaches to teaching popular culture, regardless of the discipline.
Some particular ideas you might consider with regards to a paper in this area may include sharing unique approaches to:
Presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length and lively in nature! The deadline for the submission of a 200-word abstract is May 1, 2016. Individual and full panel proposals are considered. Submission information is available at the Northeast Popular Culture Association conference page.
NEPCA Fall Conference information, including the paper proposal form, can be found here. Please submit the form, including a brief CV and abstract, located on the site. Both proposals for individual papers and complete panels will be considered. Please direct any questions to either 2016 Program Chair Karen Honeycutt (khoneycutt@keene.edu) and/or to the appropriate Area Chair. For a complete list of Area Chairs, please visit the NEPCA website. The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2016.
If you have specific questions about submitting to the Teaching Popular Culture area, please let me know!
CFP: TEACHING POPULAR CULTURE
In particular, I am the chair of the Teaching Popular Culture area and I'm really interested in hearing about and seeing the different ways instructors use popular culture in their courses--be it their core curriculum or even courses on popular culture. If you have some ideas about a panel as a whole or individual papers that you would like to present on regarding this area, please be sure to submit. A larger goal of this area is to create a place to foster ideas and approaches to teaching popular culture, regardless of the discipline.
Some particular ideas you might consider with regards to a paper in this area may include sharing unique approaches to:
- Teaching courses focused specifically on “popular culture”
- Teaching courses on an area within popular culture (e.g. courses that focus on the content and cultural aspects–not necessarily the “how-to” aspects of comics, video games, horror, Harry Potter, baseball, The Beatles, etc).
- Teaching mainstream courses using popular culture (e.g. baseball statistics for explaining, statistics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer for explaining political theory, Star Trek for exploring biology).
Presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length and lively in nature! The deadline for the submission of a 200-word abstract is May 1, 2016. Individual and full panel proposals are considered. Submission information is available at the Northeast Popular Culture Association conference page.
NEPCA Fall Conference information, including the paper proposal form, can be found here. Please submit the form, including a brief CV and abstract, located on the site. Both proposals for individual papers and complete panels will be considered. Please direct any questions to either 2016 Program Chair Karen Honeycutt (khoneycutt@keene.edu) and/or to the appropriate Area Chair. For a complete list of Area Chairs, please visit the NEPCA website. The deadline for proposals is June 15, 2016.
If you have specific questions about submitting to the Teaching Popular Culture area, please let me know!
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