Call for Papers
The Disasters and Apocalypses area of the Pop Culture Association offers a forum for analysis and critical approaches surrounding the culture of disasters, catastrophes, accidents, and apocalypses in global art, literature, media, film, and popular culture. Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes will address broader disciplinary topics and innovative intersections of humanities, musicology, social science, literature, film, visual art, psychology, game studies, material culture, media studies, ecology, and information technology.
Interested individuals are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words (including presentation title) and complete contact information to https://sites.google.com/view/2025pcaconference/call-for-papers
Submissions will only be accepted through the PCA website.
General Topics
●Katrina. Helene, Beryl, Milton
●Coronavirus Pandemic
●War as Disaster
●Eco Criticism, Eco Culture
●Teaching ecocriticism and disasters
●Natural Disasters
●Global Warming, Climate Change
●Disaster capitalism
●Disasters and under-represented populations
●War Ecology
●Slow Violence
●Hyperobjects
●Native Cultures and Eco-policies
●Apocalyptic TV and Film
●Zombie and Apocalyptic imaginaries
●Social Media and disasters
●Economics and disasters
●Doomsday preppers
●Time and temporalities of disasters
●Representations and narration of disaster
●Disasters and personal narratives
●Disaster aesthetics
●Disaster metaphors, concepts and symbolic forms
●Ethics and politics of disasters
●Disaster literature and art
●Notions of national identity through disaster representation
●Portrayal of suffering in news, digital culture, literature, and TV
●Celebrity humanitarianism and disaster engagement
●Distinctions between man-made and natural disaster
●Public, private, and nonprofit responses to disaster
Questions may be addressed to either area chair:
Robert Ficociello
Holy Family University Philadelphia, PA disasterculture@yahoo.com
Robert Bell
University of North Carolina Asheville Asheville, NC disasterculture@yahoo.com
Important Dates to Remember:
• Database opens for Submissions - Sept. 1, 2024
• Early Bird Registration Begins - Oct. 1, 2024
• Deadline for Paper Proposals - Nov. 30, 2024
• Travel Grant Applications Due - Dec. 15, 2024
• Early Bird Registration Ends for Presenters - Dec. 31, 2024
• Regular Registration Begins for Presenters - Jan. 1, 2025
• Travel Grant Decisions / Notifications - Jan. 15, 2025
• Regular Registration Ends for Presenters - Jan. 31, 2025
• Late Registration Starts for Presenters - Feb. 1, 2025
• Preliminary Program draft available - Feb. 5, 2025
• Late Registration Ends for Presenters- Feb. 15, 2025
Those Presenters Not Registered by Feb. 15 Will be Dropped from the Program
CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, LA - April 16-19, 2025