Call for Papers - MAPACA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium - July 20, 2025 Online

Call for Papers - MAPACA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium

Due: May 31, 2025

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium

July 20, 2025 Online

Call for papers:

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 MAPCA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium, an online event open to all our participants, will take place on July 20, 2025. International presenters and anyone unable to attend our in-person conference in November are especially encouraged to attend the Summer Virtual Symposium. All presenters are welcome to submit separate proposals for both this Summer Virtual Symposium and our in-person conference in November.

 

Proposals should take the form of 300-word abstracts, and may only be submitted to one appropriate area. For a list of areas and area chair contact information, visit mapaca.net/areas. General questions can be directed to mapaca@mapaca.net. The deadline for submission is May 31, 2025.

 

MAPACA’s participants are comprised of college and university faculty, independent scholars and artists, and graduate and undergraduate students. MAPACA is an inclusive professional organization dedicated to the study of popular and American culture in all their multidisciplinary manifestations. It is a regional division of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association, which, in the words of Popular Culture Association founder Ray Browne, is a “multi-disciplinary association interested in new approaches to the expressions, mass media and all other phenomena of everyday life.”

 

For more information, visit mapaca.net.

 

Performance Studies Area at MAPACA

This area explores all aspects relating to theatre, dance, musical theatre, opera, and performance in popular and American culture, including theatrical productions, dramatic text and playwriting, modes of performance, actors and acting, theatre and dance history, political theatre, non-traditional performance, and the intersection between anthropology, sociology, theatre, and performance.