Call for Presentations: *A Celebration of Superheroes* DePaul Pop Culture Conference DePaul University – Virtual Conference May 01, 2021 The Pop Culture Conference has gone virtual! After postponing for a year, we are now re-accepting submissions for the eighth Pop Culture Conference, hosted by DePaul University! This year’s “Celebration of Superheroes” will take place *synchronously *for Keynotes, Workshops, and Roundtables on *May 01, 2021* and asynchronously for panels throughout the following week. More details can be found at popcultureconference.com. This event will feature roundtable discussions from scholars and fans of Superheroes and comics*. *Our keynote speaker is *Sarah Kuhn*, author of the popular *Heroine Complex* novels—a series starring Asian American superheroines, as well as *I Love You So Mochi* and a graphic novel about Batgirl Cassandra Cain for DC Comics. Our academic speaker is *Dr. Frederick Aldama*, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University and expert in Latino literature, film, television, comics, and superheroes. Participants may propose papers about a broad array of ideas related to Superheroes and their cultural impact. All papers should be pre-recorded in whatever format the researcher wishes – videos, narrated powerpoints, podcasts, PDF posters, etc. The audience for this event is both graduate and undergraduate students, both fans and scholars. You may propose multiple papers and panels. Some possible topics include: The ubiquity of Superheroes; Power and Responsibility with Superheroes; the morality of Superheroes; race/ethnicity and Superheroes; Gender and Superheroes; Religion and Superheroes, teaching with Superheroes, the financial success of the MCU or DC Universes, etc. Please *submit an abstract* of your talk by *Monday, March 01 to [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>*. Final videos will be due *Friday, April 16*. If you are interested in contributing to our published charity volume, papers of 2-5,000 words are due by *Friday, April 02.* For more information, please check out popcultureconference.com, and sign up for updates on Facebook (search “A Celebration of Heroes”). We hope that you will be able to join in the discussion and celebration! -- Paul Booth, PhD Pronouns: he, him, his Professor of Media and Cinema Studies/Communication Technology College of Communication DePaul University 14 E. Jackson Chicago, IL 60604 *Email Disclaimer: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Any unauthorized dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete the message. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail may solely be the views of the author and cannot be relied upon as being those of DePaul University. ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]