[ecrea] CFPs: joint national conference Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association

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*POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION*

*2019 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE*

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Wardman Park Marriot

Washington DC

17-20 April 2019

For information on PCA/ACA and the conference, please go to 
http://pcaaca.org

*DEADLINE:NOVEMBER 1, 2018*

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The "German Literature and Culture" area for the 2019 Popular and 
American Culture Association meeting in Washington DC invites proposals 
related to the portrayal of disability in culture writ large and 
internationally.  Proposals representing perspectives in the humanities 
and the arts (e.g., film, history, literature, visual arts), social 
sciences (e.g., anthropology, cultural studies, sociology), and mass 
media (e.g., print or electronic journalism) in historical or 
contemporary contexts are welcome. Proposals should clearly establish 
what connections the presenter intend to draw between their chosen topic 
and disability studies from a popular culture perspective.

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* Subject areas might include but are not limited to:*

·Any of the areas of German Culture as seen through the popular culture 
lens in any form of text or media, be it fictional work, historical, 
political, or artistic work in medias as diverse as print, television, 
film, the performing arts, and online. In particular:

oGerman-American Relationships: Strengths/Weaknesses. Eine 
Bestandsaufnahme. What remains to be done, what more can be done, or 
should less be done? The good, the bad and the ugly. What to make of 
calls within Europe (after the Iran nuclear deal cancellation by the US, 
and the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem) to leave OTAN, or to 
become a separate power; what is the popular and cultural reaction to 
this political change?

oMovies: Which German movies have made it in England, America, 
Australia, Canada? Which have made it to other countries? Why have these 
films made it in the English-speaking world? Why not? Have the reasons 
changed over time? Is the series “Berlin Babylon” an answer to past 
failures to translate? Do German moviemakers even care about the 
English-speaking market? Or have they become like German Krimis, 
available in so many countries, just not those that speak English?

oMovies: German genres. What German genres are dominating German movies? 
German made for tv, online streaming movies? Just the same old love 
stories? Where is the status and or trajectory of genres such as horror 
movies? Slashers? Sci-fi thrillers? Road movies? in Germany.

oGermany and Immigration in Popular Culture. What manifestations of the 
recent surge in migration to Germany are to be found in popular culture. 
How is popular culture shaping the debate on migration to Germany? What 
are the key moments of the present inscribed in such debates, and what 
do they tell us about the past, present, and perhaps even the future?

oThe Shoah and Reconciliation. Though the genocides perpetrated in the 
Shoah and against the indigenous populations of Canada, Australia, the 
US and elsewhere must be viewed as different in so many ways, is there a 
way or ways to use discussions about the Shoah so as to strengthen 
social resolve to have Reconciliation with indigenous peoples? What 
could be the advantages of such an approach, what the pitfalls? Is there 
a German imaginarium of Native Americans, and is is helpful or harmful 
to attempts at Reconciliation in Turtle Island and elsewhere?

Proposal abstracts (max 300 words) must be submitted online at the 
PCAACA website at:http://pcaaca.org.

*Individual and full panel proposals are considered. For full panel 
proposals (generally four persons) please include titles, abstracts and 
contact information for all participants.*

Area Chair:

Claude Desmarais, (German), FCCS

CCS373

1148 Research Road

UBC, Okanagan Campus

Kelowna, BC

Canada V1V 1V7

Email: (claude.desmarais /at/ ubc.ca) <mailto:(claude.desmarais /at/ ubc.ca)>



Cfp: German Studies Area (PCA, San Diego, California, April 12-15, 2017)


Panel I: Politics and Immigration.

Throughout immigration policy’s long history in Germany, most notably in 
the aftermath of WWII and German unification in 1990, it has been 
contested political, social, and cultural territory. This is no less the 
case now, with Germany taking in some 1.1 million refugees in 2015. What 
do past cultural, social, and political expressions and manifestations 
vis-à-vis immigration issues tell us about the present, or vice-versa? 
What are the moments of cultural production that best inform us about 
the past, and/or the present, and why?


Panel II: German Comics: The Trouble with Graphic Novels.

The genre trouble between comic and graphic novels is exacerbated at 
times by the way German culture is (or is not) inscribed and 
acknowledged in the reception of such texts. What are the markers of 
German Comics, and are they drawn, written, and received via an audience 
shaped in German comic traditions? If so, what are the trajectories and 
intersections with French/Belgian /bande dessinée/, American and British 
comics/graphic novels, or Japanese comics/graphic novels?


Panel III: Weimar Cinema and Popular Culture: Zombies, Vampires and 
Robots (from the Future?)

The Weimar Republic was a fecund period of cultural production, and in 
many ways still speaks to a contemporary (North) American sensibility. 
What are the Weimar influences on popular culture, particularly in terms 
of film, and the zombies, vampires and robots in the futuristic, 
expressionistic vein of film and other media? What is the relation, or 
is there one, between modern-day German representations to North 
American audiences, particularly of the zombies, vampires and robots? Do 
the walkers from “The Walking Dead” translate into German culture? How 
so? Which cultural dead (Germans?) have been revived by this 
contemporary fascination with the undead?


Panel IV: Lacunae of German Studies and /Germanistik/: Environmentalism, 
Disability, and Beyond

The distance between Germanistik and German Studies is well-known and 
much-lamented. There are several candidates that gesture toward this 
divide that receive minor shrift in North American German Studies, 
despite receiving considerable attention in Germany. Take for instance 
Disability Studies, or environmentalism, which is such an important 
topic in Germany. Is German Studies unable to give proper attention to 
certain fields? What are these fields, and what are the causes of their 
neglect? How do we assure they find a place within German Studies? 
Conversely, what does /Germanistik/ neglect and on which North American 
German Studies sheds light?

Note: Papers not focused on these topics, but dealing with other areas 
or aspects of German Literature and Culture (particularly film and 
popular culture), will also be considered.


*Submission information: *Please submit your 200-300 word 
abstract/proposal through the PCA database, http://ncp.pcaaca.org/(which 
does not open until JULY 1^st ) to the German Literature and Culture 
area. PCA requires pro­posals be submitted to only one subject area at a 
time. You must include your name, email address, and (if applicable) 
your academic affiliation on the site. Otherwise we might not be able to 
contact you.

*Note: Deadline: *The deadline for paper/presentation proposals is 
November 1, 2016.

*Conference date and location: *As indicated above, the conference takes 
place from April 11-15, 2017, in San Diego, California

*Inquiries? *If you should have any inquiries or further questions about 
the German Literature and Culture Area at the PCA/ACA national 
conference, please contact:
*Thinking of presenting/attending, and wanting to be on an email list?* 
Send your email to (claude.desmarais /at/ ubc.ca), and state the sort of 
updates you would like (i.e. Reminders [when database opens, a month and 
two weeks before the deadline, etc.); Updates on Finalized Panels; 
Meetings Updates [other German Studies conferences; meetings at the 
conference outside of panels]; Future PCA/ACA cfps).

Claude Desmarais

German Literature and Culture Area Chair

(claude.desmarais /at/ ubc.ca) <mailto:(claude.desmarais /at/ ubc.ca)>


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