The First Annual Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand

Call for Papers
The First Annual Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) will be held June 30, July 1, 2 in Sydney.

This interdisciplinary and transnational conference is accepting proposals on ALL aspects of popular culture including but not limited to:
• Graphic Novels, Comics and Visual Cultures (Dr Paul Mountfort paul.mountfort@aut.ac.nz)
• Popular Design (Dr Derham Groves, derham@unimelb.edu.au)
• Popular Romance Studies (Dr Glen Thomas, gjthomas@qut.edu.au)
• Popular Fiction (Dr Toni Johnson-Woods, t.johnsonwoods@uq.edu.au)
• Film and TV (Dr Rebecca Beirne, Rebecca.Beirne@newcastle.edu.au )
• Fashion (Dr Vicky Karminas, Vicki.Karaminas@uts.edu.au)
• Popular Science (Dr William Lott, b.lott@qut.edu.au)
• Linguistics (Alan Libert, Alan.Libert@newcastle.edu.au)
• Queer Studies (Dr Samar Habib, S.Habib@uws.edu.au)
• Journalism and Popular Culture (Dr John Cokely, j.cokley@uq.edu.au)
• Popular History (Dr Hsu-Ming Teo, Macquarie University)
• Food Studies (Toni Risson, t.risson@uq.edu.au)
• Philosophy and Popular Culture
• International Popular Cultures
• IT, Gaming, New Media, Internet and Popular Culture
• Popular Performance/Entertainment;
• Popular Music
• Indigenous Cultures
• Green Issues and Popular Culture
• Writing (Creative/Non Fiction)
• Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Research
• Sports and Popular Culture
Proposals for panels are encouraged.

Planned events include a poster session (especially aimed at postgrads and undergrads but open to all) and a Wine and Sign cocktail hour. Please mark abstracts Poster Session and send to t.johnsonwoods@uq.edu.au. The Wine and Sign cocktail hour will include editors from academic and non-academic publishers.

The deadline for submissions is 30th November, 2009. Abstracts (max 200 word) should be sent as e-mail attachments to the area chairs, if no area chair is designated please forward to Dr Toni Johnson-Woods, t.johnsonwoods@uq.edu.au. Include your name, affiliation, mailing and e-mail address, and the title of your presentation. E-mails should be entitled: PopCanz Conference. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within one week, please resend your submission. Accepted presenters will be notified via e-mail by January 2010.

A selection of papers from the conference will be solicited for publication in the association’s (new) journal. Additional information will be available on the PopCanz blogsite: http://popcanz.blogspot.com/. A website is forthcoming.