<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hello Friends! I am sharing this on behalf of Scott Henderson for the Popular Culture Association of Canada (PCAC). This is a small but very interesting conference and I encourage everyone to consider it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Call for Papers</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Popular Culture
Association of Canada (PCAC) 8th Annual Conference, May 3-5, 2018</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The eighth annual
Conference of the Popular Culture Association of Canada will be held at Brock
University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada from Thursday, May 3 to Saturday,
May 5, 2018.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">We invite proposals
for papers and/or panels on theories of popular culture, research methods in
popular culture, the teaching of popular culture, forms and genres of popular
culture, and any epiphenomena of popular culture, past or present. We also
invite presentation and exhibition proposals from visual and multimedia artists
whose work engages with popular culture.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">We share an
interdisciplinary vision of this association. Many of our members come from the
humanities and social sciences but we are interested in featuring papers from a
wide variety of disciplines and cross-disciplinary perspectives. We welcome
faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students and independent scholars as
well as other professionals with a critical interest in popular culture.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Our broad definition
of popular culture encompasses communicative texts, practices and experiences,
mediated and unmediated, contemporary and historical, Canadian and non-Canadian
(including the local and the global).</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Single paper proposals
should consist of a title, an abstract of no more than 200 words, and a list of
keywords or key phrases (maximum 5), and should be accompanied by a brief
biographical note of 100 words or less. Panel proposals should include all of
the above information for each presenter, plus a proposed title for the panel
and a brief rationale. Proposals from visual and multimedia artists should
consist of a title, an artist’s statement and rationale of no more than 300
words, and a sample of the work(s) specified. For more information visit us
at </span><a href="http://www.canpop.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">www.canpop.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">The deadline for
proposals is January 31, 2018. The conference organizers will endeavour to
contact all potential participants by mid-February 2018.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Please send proposals,
requests for information, or any press/media inquiries, to the conference
committee at: </span><a href="mailto:conference@canpop.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">conference@canpop.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Graduate students
presenting single-authored papers at the conference will be invited to submit
their paper in advance for consideration in the Graduate Student Paper Prize
competition. More details will follow.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">On behalf of the 2018
Program Committee,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Derek Foster, PCAC President</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Appel à contributions</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Association de Culture Populaire du Canada (ACPC)
8ème conférence annuelle, 3-5 mai, 2018</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">La huitième conférence annuelle de l’Association de
culture populaire du Canada se tiendra à Université Brock à St. Catharines,
Ontario, Canada du jeudi 3 mai au samedi 5 mai 2018.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Nous sollicitons des propositions de communications et
/ ou des sessions thématiques sur les théories de la culture populaire, les
méthodes de recherche de la culture populaire, l’enseignement de la culture
populaire, les formes et les genres de la culture populaire, et tout
épiphénomène de la culture populaire passée ou présente. Nous accueillons
également des propositions de présentations et d’expositions d’artistes visuels
et multimédia dont le travail se rapporte à la culture populaire.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Nous partageons une vision interdisciplinaire de
l’Association. Ainsi, nos participants proviennent généralement des sciences
humaines et sociales, mais nous sommes également intéresses à recevoir des
propositions de recherche provenant de diverses perspectives disciplinaires et
interdisciplinaires. Nous invitons professeurs, étudiants et chercheurs
intéressés à la culture populaire à soumettre leurs propositions.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Notre définition large de la culture populaire englobe
les textes, les pratiques et les expériences vécues, médiatisés ou non,
contemporains ou historiques, canadiens ou étrangers (incluant les perspectives
locales et globales).</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Les propositions de communications individuelles
devront inclure un titre, un abrégé d’au plus 200 mots, ainsi qu’une liste de
mots ou phrases clés (5 maximum). Elles devront également s’accompagner d’une
brève notice biographique de 100 mots ou moins. Les propositions de sessions
thématiques devront quant à elles inclure l’ensemble de ces informations pour
chacune des communications, ainsi qu'un titre proposé pour la session et une
brève justification. Les propositions d’arts visuels et multimédia devront
présenter un titre, une déclaration de l’artiste de 300 mots ou moins et un
aperçu du projet spécifique. Pour plus d'informations, visitez-nous au </span><a href="http://www.canpop.ca/" target="_blank"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">www.canpop.ca</span></a><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">La date limite pour nous faire parvenir votre
proposition est le 31 janvier 2018. Les organisateurs s'efforceront de
communiquer avec tous les participants potentiels en février 2018.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Veuillez faire parvenir vos propositions, demande de
renseignements, ou demande de presse/media au comité exécutif à : </span><a href="mailto:conference@canpop.ca" target="_blank"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">conference@canpop.ca</span></a><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Les étudiants des cycles supérieurs sont invités à soumettre
leur présentation à l’avance afin d’être considérés pour le prix du meilleur
essai étudiant. </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">De plus amples détails
suivront.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">-- Derek Foster,
Président</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dr.
Scott Henderson</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Associate
Professor</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-------</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Department
of Communication, Popular Culture and Film</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Brock
University</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">St.
Catharines, Ontario</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="mailto:shender@brocku.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">shender@brocku.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">--------</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Executive
Director</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Popular
Culture Association of Canada</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

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