[ecrea] Pop Culture and World Politics V.11 CFP -- After the Cultural Politics of Popular Worlds

Pop Culture and World Politics V.11

Presents:

After the Cultural Politics of Popular Worlds

Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

August 10-12, 2018

Reflection arrives after the 10^th anniversary of PCWP. PCWP V.1-6 
fulfilled the promise of creating a space to “explore the range of 
interconnections between (world) politics and /popular /culture (broadly 
conceived, including, but not limited to, news media, films, TV, ads, 
magazines, graphic novels, fashion, food, music, video games), bringing 
together scholars from diverse perspectives in politics and IR, as well 
as forging interdisciplinary links with scholars in other fields.”It 
showcased the inter-textual continuum by exploring how popular culture 
represents current world problems but also how current world problems 
are shaped by already existing popular cultures. Achieving maturity, 
PCWP V.6-9 became an opportunity for researchers to pursue their 
research unashamed: no longer needing to justify their research agenda, 
researchers were encouraged to push further into questions of mimesis, 
aesthetics, materialism, political economy, diversity, intersectionality 
etc.  An explosion of profound research could be celebrated on its own 
terms. At PCWP 10 a new challenge was made: “to advance, it is important 
to go beyond disciplinary boundaries. There is much to learn from other 
fields who have also engaged with the ways culture, the popular, and 
power are intertwined.”

As such, *After the Cultural Politics of Popular Worlds* invites PCWP 
scholars to engage in agenda setting for the next decade.  It encourages 
proposals that explore the limits studying PCWP in and after the 
cultural, aesthetic, materialist, ontological, affective and speculative 
turns. It invites a return to the epistemological questions that a study 
of inter-text attempted to solve and the aesthetic embrace attempted to 
open.  It incites reassessment of the enduring debts that graft studying 
politics and culture onto the problem of worlds, times and challenges. 
It anticipates fresh engagements with the practices, procedures and 
performances used in the study of PCWP.  It asks if PCWP always arrives 
after the fact and whether PCWP can participate in the fantasy of 
creating alternative worlds? *After the Cultural Politics of Popular 
Worlds* seeks a fresh agenda for PCWP; it is not a necessary or easy 
task, it simply an invitation, after the fact.

As such, in addition to the wide range of research questions championed 
in PCWP’s last 10 years, this convergence also invites papers that 
explore the following provocations:

Will PCWP remain a “Western” vocation?
Will PCWP retain a cultural orientation?
Will PCWP maintain an aesthetic occupation?
Will PCWP address science and technology changes?
Will PCWP survive the inclusion of new voices, formats and practitioners?
Will PCWP exceed its methodological and/or pedagogical foundations?
Can PCWP maintain its experimental calling?

Acadia University is located in Wolfville at the heart of Nova Scotia’s 
Annapolis Valley and Bay of Fundy.  Just steps beyond Acadia’s campus 
you can explore a rich, natural environment that includes the world’s 
highest tides, award winning wineries, woodland and coastal hiking 
trails, and bountiful farmers’ markets.  PCWP in August is the perfect 
time to visit Canada’s maritime provinces. See 
https://pcwp2018.wordpress.com <https://pcwp2018.wordpress.com/>for 
endearing travel, housing and tourist information.

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*Submission Instructions:*

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Abstract submissions may include individual papers, panels, or 
roundtables. Please include paper/panel/roundtable information in the 
body of the email and/or as an attachment in PDF format. Individual 
papers please include your contact details.  Panel/roundtable submission 
should include five papers/presenters. For panel and roundtable 
submissions please include the contact details for all participants as 
well as the convener.  With the goal of making an interesting program, 
we might move stuff around.

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*Submission Deadline: March 30, 2018 -- Acceptance Notification: ASAP *

*Submissions and inquiries should be sent to (pcwp2018 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(pcwp2018 /at/ gmail.com)>*

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*Please circulate widely*



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