[Commlist] CFP: Perspectives on the Future of the Planet in Popular Culture

*/Perspectives on the Future of the Planet in Popular Culture/* - CFP

The Ecology and Culture Area of the Popular Culture/American Culture 
Association is soliciting papers on:

*/Perspectives on the Future of the Planet in Popular Culture/* for the 
2022 annual conference *April 13 – 16 2022 in Seattle, USA*

World leaders come together at the beginning of November 2021 in a 
“conference of parties” for the 26th year in succession where climate 
change and its ecological consequences will be discussed, debated and 
reviewed in an effort to harness global coordinated action. However, 
COP26, and its Paris Agreement (arising from COP21), have thus far 
sustained little more than rhetoric over action and political posturing 
over coherent consensus in a world that continues to struggle with the 
direct consequences of the profound effects of pollution and factory 
farming on the planet.

For the PCA conference in 2022, we want to consider how popular culture 
has responded to visions of a possible future resulting from failed 
international cooperation to combat climate change and the ways in which 
documentary as well as fictive dystopias have been provoked by a global 
failure to adequately engage with the ecological crisis of the 
Anthropocene epoch.

*Abstracts of papers exploring politics and ecology on any of the 
following or related topics are welcome:*

·Podcasts as ecological activism

·Sport and ecological activism

·Popular festivals and the climate emergency

·“Net zero” in popular culture

·Ecological futures and visual art (paintings, photography, 
film, for example)

·Ecological futures and fiction

·Ecological futures and race

·Ecological futures and sexuality

·Ecological futures and disability

·Ecological futures and documentary

·Ecological futures and health

·Ecological futures on film and television

·Ecological futures and comedy (such as stand-up)

·Ecological futures and tragedy

·Ecological futures and theater

·Ecological futures and religion or spirituality

·Ecological futures and popular music

Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or 
speakers per standard session. Presentations should not exceed 15 
minutes. Working professionals, scholars, educators, and graduate 
students are all encouraged to submit.

*Interested individuals are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 
250 words (including presentation title) and complete contact 
information (name, institutional affiliation, mail and e-mail addresses, 
and contact telephone number) to 
https://pcaaca.org/conference/submitting-paper-proposal-pca-conference by November 
15 
<https://pcaaca.org/conference/submitting-paper-proposal-pca-conference by%20November%2015>.*

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