CfP: Disability and Popular Culture
Call for Papers: Disability and Popular Culture -- 2017 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference
CONFERENCE LOCATION: The MPCA/MACA
Wednesday-Sunday, 18-22 October, 2017
Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch
315 Chestnut St, St. Louis, MO 63102
Phone: 314-655-1234
The
Disability and Popular Culture Area of The Midwest Popular Culture
Association/Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting
proposals for its upcoming Conference in October 2017.
Proposals
will be accepted from any area relating to disability and popular
culture. Potential topics could include, but are not limited to:
- Disability in TV & Film
- Disability in Literature
- Disability and Social Media
- Disability and Society
- Disability and the News
Please
upload 250 word abstract proposals on any aspect of disability and
popular culture to the Disability and Popular Culture area at http://submissions.mpcaaca.org/
DEADLINE: April 30, 2017.
Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address with the 250 word abstract.
Questions? Please email area chair Dr. Hayley Haugen: haugen@ohio.edu (please do not email abstracts to the chair – use mpcaaca link above).
More information about the conference can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/
Please note the availability of graduate student travel grants: http://mpcaaca.org/conference/travel-grants/
Contact Info:
Dr. Hayley Mitchell Haugen -- Area Chair, Disability and Popular Culture, MPCA/ACA
Contact Email: haugen@ohio.edu