The Popular Culture Scholars Association is proud to announce the Second
Annual Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture. The conference will be
held February 8-10 at Bowling Green State University, the home of the
Department of Popular Culture. See below for the conference's CFP.

To build on the success of the First Annual Ray Browne Conference, and
usher in the fortieth year of the Popular Culture Department at Bowling
Green State University, the Popular Culture Scholars Association at BGSU
would like to invite any and all students (undergraduates and graduate),
scholars, critics, former members of the POPC program and friends of the
department to join us for the Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture to
be held February 8th through February 10th 2013, on the campus of Bowling
Green State University.

Dr. Ray Browne founded the department of Popular Culture to give students
an opportunity to academically consider the cultural forms of their
everyday lives. In the past forty years, popular culture has only grown
more prominent in society and developed new ways of engaging the public.
Popular culture has become increasingly mobile through smart phones,
webisodes, memes, and social media blurring the boundaries between
producers and consumers. Simultaneously, cultures in general have become
increasingly mobile through the spread of and contact between peoples,
ideas and technology; making the production and consumption of culture a
truly transnational affair. In light of increased cultural mobility made
possible by new modes of technology, we must consider how popular culture
scholarship has grown (and can continue to grow) to accommodate such new
cultural modalities.

Potential topics for papers, panels, and roundtable proposals include, but
are not limited to:

• How has the increased mobility in terms of culture, people, and
technology had an effect on appropriation of cultures, (anti)nationalism,
social and political change, tourism, diasporic experiences and how do we
begin to theorize these interactions?
• How do we reimagine/reconstruct literatures, languages, narratives and
identities in cyber societies? Has transmedia and convergence culture
shaped our interaction with popular texts and affected pop cultural
narratives?
• How has new media shaped interactions between popular culture and
individuals?
• With increasing shifts in culture, have there been similar shifts in the
representation of disabled, gender, sexual, race, and ethnic identities?
• Which new media, texts, genres, etc. deserve attention from academics and
scholars?
• How have these shifts altered the study popular culture, and how do we
continue to explore them?
• Explorations of specific popular culture texts, genres, trends and
approaches

The deadline for proposals is Friday, November 16, 2012. Individual paper
proposals should be between 300-400 words. Full roundtable and panel theme
proposals can be longer, but should include as much prospective information
about the topic and number of possible participants as possible. Please
email your abstract and a short biography to
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Abstract. Notifications for decisions will be sent by Friday, December 15,
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-- 
Cory Barker
Graduate Student
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University
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(765) 499-0080
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