CFP: Biographies Area of the 2025 Popular Culture Association Conference (PCA) Conference–Deadline Extension: 12/13/2024

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CFP: Biographies Area of the 2025 Popular Culture Association Conference (PCA) Conference–Deadline Extension: 12/13/2024

The Biographies Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA)  is  soliciting papers for the 2025 conference that examine the connections between biography and popular  culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:

  • Biography and entertainment, art, music, theater
  • Biography and film
  • Biography and criminal justice
  • Television programs about biography
  • Biography and urban legends
  • Biography and folklore
  • Biography and literature
  • Scholarly Biography
  • Controversial Biography
  • Psychoanalysis and Biography
  • Historical Biography
  • Political Biography
  • Autobiography

The conference will be held April 16-19, 2025 at the New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.  Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. 

Below are some recent titles of presentations in the Biographies Area panels:

  • Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll: Celebrity Biography through the Lens of Autopsy
  • Will Rogers: American Folk Hero or Elitist Fraud
  • Manufacturing “Soupy Sales:” Biographical Insights in the Emergence of a Comic Entertainer

Please see this link for details and guidelines on submitting to the conference:
https://pcaaca.org/general/custom.asp?page=submissionguidelines

If interested in submitting for the conference, please provide the title and abstract of your presentation.  

Deadline for Paper Proposals: December 13, 2024.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Biographies Chair:
Susie Skarl
Associate Professor/Urban Affairs Librarian
susie.skarl@unlv.edu
702-895-2141

CFP: Biographies Area of the 2025 Popular Culture Association Conference (PCA) Conference–Deadline Extension: 12/13/2024The Biographies Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA)  is  soliciting papers for the 2025 conference that examine the connections between biography and popular  culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:Biography and entertainment, art, music, theaterBiography and filmBiography and criminal justiceTelevision programs about biographyBiography and urban legendsBiography and folkloreBiography and literatureScholarly BiographyControversial BiographyPsychoanalysis and BiographyHistorical BiographyPolitical BiographyAutobiographyThe conference will be held April 16-19, 2025 at the New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.  Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Below are some recent titles of presentations in the Biographies Area panels:Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll: Celebrity Biography through the Lens of AutopsyWill Rogers: American Folk Hero or Elitist FraudManufacturing “Soupy Sales:” Biographical Insights in the Emergence of a Comic EntertainerPlease see this link for details and guidelines on submitting to the conference:https://pcaaca.org/general/custom.asp?page=submissionguidelinesIf interested in submitting for the conference, please provide the title and abstract of your presentation.  Deadline for Paper Proposals: December 13, 2024.If you have questions, please feel free to contact Biographies Chair:Susie SkarlAssociate Professor/Urban Affairs Librariansusie.skarl@unlv.edu702-895-2141 Read More

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