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Call for Paper due November 30

  • 1.  Call for Paper due November 30

    Posted 11-16-2023 10:43 AM

    The Popular Culture Association is now accepting proposals for next year's conference in Chicago, to be held March 27-30, 2024. The Popular Art, Architecture & Design area of the association is concerned with the aesthetics, the history, and the theory of popular and American culture in the everyday world of the past, the present, and the future. It's a very broad area, so think creatively. 

                                        

    Topics at previous conferences have included topics such as:

     

    •                     World Fairs

    •                     Stephen Colbert Teaching Contemporary Art

    •                     Ceramic Work of Brendan Tang and Sing-ying Ho

    •                     Respecting Difficult Histories in Museum Exhibitions

    •                     Integrated learning in museums

    •                     Architecture of Tadao Ando

    •                     Disneyland

    •                     Edward Durell Stone

    •                     Sandy Skoglund and Gregory Crewdson's visions of suburbia

    •                     Portrait miniatures

    •                     Kara Walker's silhouettes

    •                     Superman and Art Deco

    •                     Art of Howard Finster

    •                     Art Environments

    •                     Place-Inspired Activism

    •                     Elizabeth Catlett

    •                     Norman Rockwell's lost drawings

    •                     Cold War American Suburban Imaginary

    •                     Nineteenth-Century Ephemera: Scrapbooks and Trompe l'Oeil Painting

    •                     Art Nouveau's Revival in 1960's Popular Culture

    •                     Restoration of Charles Lindbergh's House

    •                     Kitchen Design in Glass Houses

    •                     American painter William Scharf

    •                     Artificial Intelligence Aesthetics

    •                     Architecture After the 1898 Spanish-American War

    •                     Modern Architecture in Alabama

     

    Please submit a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short bio with contact information by November 30, 2023. To submit an abstract, see the guidelines found on this page: https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines  Please note that submissions will only be accepted through the PCA website.

     

    Presenters must be current, paid members to submit to the conference. Information about registering, a list of deadlines, links to submit and apply for grants, and to register for the conference can be found on the PCA website. For information on PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org

     

    For further conference information, please go to https://pcaaca.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1753520&group=

     

    Any inquiries should be directed to the area chair:

     

    Dr. Jennifer Streb

    Professor of Art History

    Juniata College

    Huntingdon, PA 16652

    streb@juniata.edu

     

     

     

     

    Jennifer Streb, Ph.D.

    (she/her/hers)

    Professor, Art History

     

    Office: 814-641-3657 | 313 Founders Hall

    Instagram: @jchistory_arthistorydept and @jcmofa

     

    JUNIATA COLLEGE

    1700 Moore Street Huntingdon, PA 16602  |. Juniata.edu

     

    Schedule an Appointment: https://calendly.com/streb/student-drop-in-hours

     

     



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