CFP: Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) -- 2025 Annual Conference – Philadelphia, PA – Nov. 6-8, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse

Call for proposals:

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA, November 6-8, 2025. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.

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 our Areas page. General questions can be directed to mapaca@mapaca.net. The deadline for submission is July 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 https://mapaca.net/.