[ecrea] CFP Ray Browne Conference

*Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture "Modes of Mobility: Popular 
Culture in an Age of Technology"*

February 8 -- February 10, 2013
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio
http://bgsu.orgsync.com/org/pcsa/conference

To build on the success of the First Annual Ray Browne Conference, and 
usher in the fortieth year of the Popular Culture Department at Bowling 
Green State University, the Popular Culture Scholars Association at BGSU 
would like to invite any and all students (undergraduates and graduate), 
scholars, critics, former members of the POPC program and friends of the 
department to join us for the Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture 
to be held February 8th through February 10th 2013, on the campus of 
Bowling Green State University.

Dr. Ray Browne founded the department of Popular Culture to give 
students an opportunity to academically consider the cultural forms of 
their everyday lives. In the past forty years, popular culture has only 
grown more prominent in society and developed new ways of engaging the 
public. Popular culture has become increasingly mobile through smart 
phones, webisodes, memes, and social media blurring the boundaries 
between producers and consumers. Simultaneously, cultures in general 
have become increasingly mobile through the spread of and contact 
between peoples, ideas and technology; making the production and 
consumption of culture a truly transnational affair. In light of 
increased cultural mobility made possible by new modes of technology, we 
must consider how popular culture scholarship has grown (and can 
continue to grow) to accommodate such new cultural modalities.

Potential topics for papers, panels, and roundtable proposals include, 
but are not limited to:

. How has the increased mobility in terms of culture, people, and 
technology had an effect on appropriation of cultures, 
(anti)nationalism, social and political change, tourism, diasporic 
experiences and how do we begin to theorize these interactions?
. How do we reimagine/reconstruct literatures, languages, narratives and 
identities in cyber societies? Has transmedia and convergence culture 
shaped our interaction with popular texts and affected pop cultural 
narratives?
. How has new media shaped interactions between popular culture and 
individuals?
. With increasing shifts in culture, have there been similar shifts in 
the representation of disabled, gender, sexual, race, and ethnic identities?
. Which new media, texts, genres, etc. deserve attention from academics 
and scholars?
. How have these shifts altered the study popular culture, and how do we 
continue to explore them?
. Explorations of specific popular culture texts, genres, trends and 
approaches

The deadline for proposals is Friday, November 16, 2012. Individual 
paper proposals should be between 300-400 words. Full roundtable and 
panel theme proposals can be longer, but should include as much 
prospective information about the topic and number of possible 
participants as possible. Please email your abstract and a short 
biography to (bgpcsa /at/ gmail.com) <http://(bgpcsa /at/ gmail.com)/>. The subject 
line should contain the writer's surname followed by "BCPC13" Abstract. 
Notifications for decisions will be sent by Friday, December 15, 2012. 
Please contact PCSA if you have any questions or concerns at 
(bgpcsa /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(bgpcsa /at/ gmail.com)> or via our website at 
bgsu.orgsync.com/org/pcsa <http://bgsu.orgsync.com/org/pcsa>.

*Deadline: November 16, 2012*