CALL
FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS-- British
Popular Culture Area
Midwest
Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
Annual Conference
Friday-Sunday,
14-16 October 2022
DePaul
University, Chicago, IL
Address: DePaul
Center,
1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: (312) 362-8000
This is
our first year of having our conference at a university
instead of a hotel; therefore, conference participants will be
responsible for securing their own lodging.
Individuals
may only submit one paper,
and please do not submit the same paper to more than one Area.
Deadline
for receipt of proposals is April 30, 2022.
Please
include your name, affiliation (if
any),
and e-mail address of each author/participant. A preliminary version
of the schedule will be posted on our website around August 2022. The
final version will be distributed in hard copy at the conference.
Special
Notes Regarding Proposal Submissions: (1) AV equipment will be
provided. The Association does not provide laptops, cords, or
speakers. (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.
Please
plan to attend the entire conference. Panels will run at the
following approximate times: Friday 9:00 am-6:00 pm, Saturday 9:00 am
-5:30 pm, and Sunday 9:00 am-2:00 pm. Special events may include
game night on Thursday evening, featured speakers and awards ceremony
on Friday evening, and a keynote speaker on Saturday evening. These
events will be free for conference registrants.
Topics
for papers, panels and roundtables are open so long as they relate in
some way to British popular culture, broadly defined. Work on
international co-productions involving British partners may also be
submitted to this area, though the Area Chair reserves the right to
reallocate papers should an abstract fit better in a different area.
COVID-19:
The Midwest Popular Culture Association continues to monitor the
COVID-19 situation closely. At this point, we intend for the
conference to go ahead as planned as an in-person event in October of
2022. Please note that the deadline for registration is September 15
of 2022. In the event that the conference is moved into a virtual
setting, postponed, or cancelled, we will notify you and provide you
with information as to how the organization will respond as soon as
possible. Please check the MPCA website or follow MPCA on Twitter or
Facebook for the latest information.
MEMBERSHIP
DUES & REGISTRATION FEES:
Membership renewal forms for the 2022 calendar year and 2022
conference registration forms will be available on the website in the
coming weeks. All participants must register for the conference.
Registration is $100 for undergraduate students with ID, $150 for
reduced rate members (graduate students with ID, retirees, and
unemployed), and $180 for regular members. There will be a $15 late
fee for registration on-site or postmarked after September 15, 2022.
(This fee is waived for residents of countries other than the USA or
Canada.) Payment on-site will be by cash, check, or via credit card
on Square. To preregister, send a cheque
any time to Malynnda Johnson, 200 North Seventh Street Terre
Haute, Indiana, USA 47809. Make check payable to Midwest Popular
Culture Association. A registration-membership form may be printed
from our website at <http://www.mpcaaca.org>.
Day
passes will be available for guests of the conference who are not
presenting a paper.
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 on these grants are available here.
Cancellation
Policy: If
you submit a proposal (or if you accept an invitation to appear on a
panel), you are promising to attend the conference if your proposal
is accepted, and you are promising to pay the conference registration
fee, the Association membership fee, and a late fee of $15 if
applicable. If your proposal is accepted and you do not attend the
conference, it is expected that you will (1) notify all members of
your panel, your Area Chair, and the MPCA/MACA Executive Secretary
(Malynnda Johnson) of your cancellation; (2) provide such
notification as early as possible; (3) arrange to have your paper
distributed at the panel; (4) arrange for somebody else to carry out
any other duties you may have; and (5) pay your membership and
registration fees (plus late fee if applicable). If conditions 1-5
are met, you may file a written request, after the conference, for a
refund of half your registration fee. For co-authored papers, all
authors are welcome and encouraged to attend, but only one author is
required to attend.
Melissa Beattie, PhD
https://independent.academia.edu/BeattieMelissa