The Popular Culture Association · American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is highly regarded in academe with well over 5,000 academic oral presentations given internationally, two top-tier journals (The Journal of American Culture and The Journal of Popular Culture), and over 3,000 members. This year’s conference should be exciting with papers on an enormous array of subjects. The deadline for online submission of papers has been extended to October 10th, 2017.
Proposals which consider the diversity of animation in relation to popular
culture are welcomed. Possible themes for papers/panels include but are not
restricted to: Animated adaptations, comics and animation, propaganda, public
information, advertising, animated television series, animation for
education, animation history, animation aesthetics, gender issues,
animation studios, online animation, comedy, documentary, South Park, Adult
Swim, the work of Matt Groening, CGI/animated special effects, anime, or
any aspect of animation production.
Screening times are made available to view your source material, as well
as to screen new animation that you create. This conference also hosts nightly screenings
and end the week with an all-animation dinner.
Interested individuals are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 250
words (including presentation title) and complete contact information
(name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, and contact
telephone number) to http://conference.pcaaca.org
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Travel Grant applications now available
Each year, the PCA Endowment awards travel grants to graduate students, early career faculty, 2-year college faculty, and international scholars. We also have grants to help scholars visit research collections, and for libraries to build collection materials.
You can find information about all these grants here:
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