[ecrea] CFP: Popular Culture and World Politics 7.0

Popular Culture and World Politics 7.0
University of Ottawa
Nov. 21-22, 2014

Call for Papers:

Pop culture has never been just about entertainment. It keeps a finger 
on society’s ideological pulse and the subjects that matter to the 
everyday, including traditional topics that fall within the political arena.

International affairs is more than guns and butter, and constructions of 
national identity and the justification of policies are well-established 
fields of inquiry. What counts as Canadian and consequently a Canadian 
foreign policy? In addition to traditional studies of nationalism and 
national identity through official discourse, more research is being 
done on the quotidian or day-to-day popular culture of world politics 
(Grayson et al. 2009). Debrix (2008), Shapiro (1997), and Weber (2006) 
discuss the popular geopolitics of American foreign policy through 
analysis of films, journalism, and other popular media.

PCWP is a dynamic, multidisciplinary conference that seeks to explore 
the ways in which pop culture reflects, (re)imagines, and even disturbs 
the production, consumption, interpretation, and understanding of the 
political world. This year, the University of Ottawa seeks to push the 
agenda of inquiry into the digital space, where immediate access to 
information has created new forms of political engagement and altered 
existing forms. Compression of complex ideas into smaller packets 
further affects content diffusion and consumption. We are excited to 
host the conference in a new, national venue, the Canadian War Museum—to 
better highlight both Canada and the role of national institutions in 
the discourse on war and world politics.

We are seeking to attract work from social scientists, digital 
humanities, and activists/artists who interrogate questions of identity, 
culture, violence, power, militarism, political economy, and genre.



Suggested themes for panels, papers, and presentations include (but are 
not limited to):


- Canada’s role in the world
- Representations of the Arctic
- Agency and Culture
- Objects of pop culture
- Propaganda/branding
- Identity in film, literature, and ephemera
- Culture of security
- Violence and digital games
- Teaching politics through culture



Events include:

* special screening of “Joystick Warriors: Video Games, Violence, and 
the Culture of Militarism” at the Canadian War Museum.

* teaching workshop: “Teaching with Pop Culture”

* publication workshop: “Publishing on Pop Culture”



Please send title, 250 word abstract, and contact information to:

(pcwpvii /at/ gmail.com)



Due: July 1, 2014

Decision: Sept 1, 2014

Conference: Nov 21-22, 2014 @ University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Tumblr: pcwp7.tumblr.com





Organizing Committee:

Mark B. Salter, Sandra Yao, David Grondin

School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa



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