[Commlist] Call for Papers: EUPOP 2025 Conference

EUPOP 2025 Call for Papers

EUPOP 2025: Europe – United in Diversity?

Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France, 3–5 July 2025

Deadline: 14 March 2025

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-fashion-consumption#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-fashion-consumption#call-for-papers>

Individual articles and panel contributions are welcome for the twelfth 
annual international conference of the European Popular Culture 
Association (EPCA), which will be held at Sorbonne Nouvelle University 
in Paris, France, from 3–5 July 2025.

The overarching theme of the conference will be United in 
Diversity,echoing the official motto of the European Union. Questions to 
be addressed will include: how is diversity represented, contested and 
reframed within European popular culture? And how is European 
integration reflected in the production of popular culture, past and 
present? In addition to this theme, EUPOP 2025 will explore European 
popular culture in all its various forms. This includes, but is by no 
means limited to, the following topics: European Film (past and 
present), Television, Music, Costume and Performance, Celebrity, The 
Body, Fashion, New Media, Popular Literature and Graphic Novels, Queer 
Studies, Sport, Curation, Digital Culture, the idea of European identity 
and its relation to popular culture. This year's special emphasis will 
be on topics such as popular culture borders, politics, forms of 
propaganda and influencing, and methodological framings within 
cross-disciplinary thinking.

Articles and complete panels for all strands will be subject to peer 
review. Proposals for individual presentations must not exceed 20 
minutes, and those for panels are limited to 90 minutes. In the latter 
case, please provide a short description of the panel along with 
individual abstracts. Poster presentations and video projections are 
also warmly welcomed.

There will be opportunities for networking and publishing within the 
EPCA. Presenters at EUPOP 2025 will be encouraged to develop their 
articles for publication in several Intellect journals, including the 
EPCA’s Journal of European Popular Culture. Journal editors will work 
closely with strand convenors. A full list of Intellect journals is 
available at http://www.intellectbooks.com/journals 
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/journals>.

Proposals comprising a 300-word abstract, your full name, affiliation 
and contact details (as a Word file attachment, not a PDF) should be 
submitted to Dr Kimi Kärki ((kimi.karki /at/ uniarts.fi) 
<mailto:(kimi.karki /at/ uniarts.fi)>) by 14 March 2025. Receipt of proposals 
will be acknowledged via e-mail. The conference draft programme will be 
announced in May 2025, along with the conference registration and 
accommodation details. The conference fee will likely be 200 euros 
(student) and 250 euros (other). The fee includes coffee, lunches, 
evening reception and dinner, and EPCA Membership (includes one sample 
issue of the Journal of European Popular Culture, Intellect Books). For 
details on the conference fee payment, please contact EPCA Treasurer 
Tommi Iivonen ((ttiivo /at/ utu.fi) <mailto:(ttiivo /at/ utu.fi)>).

The keynote speakers will be announced in early 2025.

The European Popular Culture Association

The European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) promotes the study of 
popular culture in and about Europe. Popular culture involves a wide 
range of activities, material forms and audiences. EPCA aims to examine 
and discuss these different aspects as they relate to Europe and 
Europeans worldwide, whether contemporary or historical.

EUPOP 2025 is organised by:

European Popular Culture Association (EPCA): 
https://epcablog.wordpress.com/ <https://epcablog.wordpress.com/>

International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC): http://iipc.utu.fi/ 
<http://iipc.utu.fi/>

EPCA President, Kimi Kärki, (kimi.karki /at/ uniarts.fi) 
<mailto:(kimi.karki /at/ uniarts.fi)>

EPCA Vice-President, Pamela Church Gibson, (pamelachurchgibson /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(pamelachurchgibson /at/ gmail.com)>

EPCA Secretary, Anna Peltomäki, (ankpel /at/ utu.fi) <mailto:(ankpel /at/ utu.fi)>

EPCA Treasurer, Tommi Iivonen, (ttiivo /at/ utu.fi) <mailto:(ttiivo /at/ utu.fi)>

EPCA Membership Secretary, Graham Roberts, (graham.roberts /at/ univ-lille.fr) 
<mailto:(graham.roberts /at/ univ-lille.fr)>

Local organizer contact, Nick Rees-Roberts, 
(nick.rees-roberts /at/ sorbonne-nouvelle.fr) 
<mailto:(nick.rees-roberts /at/ sorbonne-nouvelle.fr)>

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