[ecrea] CFP: EUPOP 2013 University of Turku, Finland 31st July - 2nd August

CALL FOR PAPERS

EUPOP 2013

International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC)

University of Turku, Finland

31st of July to 2nd August 2013



Call for papers: Deadline: Friday 29th March 2013

Individual paper and panel contributions are invited for the second 
yearly international conference of the European Popular

Culture Association (EPCA), organised with the Popular Culture 
Association Finland (PCA-Finland) and IIPC.

EUPOP 2013 will explore European popular culture in all its different forms.



This could include European Film (past and present),Television, Music, 
Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Comics, Popular Literature, 
Sport, Heritage and Curation. The special streams will include themes 
such as Sport, Obesity, Violence, Spirituality, Technology and 
Transatlantic Cultural Interaction in the popular culture context.



Closing date for this call is 29th March 2013.



There will be opportunities for networking, publishing and developing caucus

groups within the EPCA. Presenters at EUPOP 2013 will be encouraged to 
develop their papers for publication in a number of

Intellect journals, including the Journal of European Popular Culture, 
the journal of the EPCA. Journal editors will be working

closely with strand convenors – a full list of Intellect journals is 
available at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/.

Papers and Complete Panels for all strands should be submitted to the 
email contact below. Paper/panel submissions will be

subject to peer review.



Submit paper or panel proposals to: (kakallio /at/ utu.fi) (the same address 
should be used for general administrative

queries).



Keynote speakers to be confirmed.

People attending to PCA/ACA 2013 International Conference in Warsaw, 
please notice that there are direct flights from Gdansk,

Poland, to Turku: http://wizzair.com/en-GB/Search



The European Popular Culture Association

The European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) promotes the study of 
popular culture from, in, and about Europe. Popular

culture involves a wide range of activities, outcomes and audiences. 
EPCA aims to examine and discuss these different activities

as they relate both to Europe, and to Europeans across the globe, 
whether contemporary or historical.



Kind Regards,

EPCA President, Pamela Church Gibson (p.church-gibson /at/ fashion.arts.ac.uk)

Director of Research & Exchange, Graeme Harper (graeme /at/ eupop.org)

PCA-Finland Director, Adjunct Professor Kari Kallioniemi, (kakallio /at/ utu.fi)

IIPC Director, Professor John Richardson, (john.richardson /at/ utu.fi)

IIPC Coordinator Kimi Kärki, (kierka /at/ utu.fi)

CALL FOR PAPERS

More information in the near future: http://iipc.utu.fi/



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