[ecrea] CFP: Disability and Popular Culture (1-3 Oct. 2010, Minneapolis)

>Call for Papers
>Disability & Popular Culture
>Midwest Popular Culture & American Culture Association 2010 Conference
>http://www.mpcaaca.org
>
>October 1-3, 2010
>Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Minneapolis South
>Minneapolis, MN
>
>Deadline: April 30, 2010
>
>The Disability & Popular Culture area of the Midwest PCA/ACA invites
>proposals (or abstracts) for papers on any aspect of the intersection
>of disability and popular culture.
>
>All topics, approaches, and perspectives related to disability and
>popular culture are welcome.  Interdisciplinary perspectives are
>encouraged, as are discussions of new directions in disability
>studies and popular culture studies.
>
>Proposals/abstracts should be 250 words in length, and must be
>received by April 30, 2010.  Along with your proposal/abstract,
>please include the following information for each author/participant:
>-- name
>-- title of paper
>-- e-mail address
>-- institutional affiliation (if any)
>-- requests for DVD player and monitor (this is the only audio-visual
>equipment that will be available, and must be requested in the proposal)
>-- if an email address is not included, then the author's postal
>address must be included
>
>Each individual paper/presentation should be designed for a reading/ 
>presentation time of 15 minutes.  Proposals or inquiries should be
>sent by e-mail to Asim Ali, the Disability & Popular Culture area
>chair, at (aali /at/ umd.edu).
>
>Please note the availability of travel grants for graduate students:
>http://mpcaaca.org/about/grants.html
>
>More information regarding the conference is available at: http:// 
>www.mpcaaca.org
>
>Asim Ali
>(aali /at/ umd.edu)
>Area Chair, Disability & Popular Culture, Midwest PCA/ACA
>Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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