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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Papers, panels, and roundtables are invited for the Australian and New Zealand Popular Culture area for the Popular Culture Association (PCA) national conference
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">The Australian and New Zealand area is a dedicated section within the PCA for scholars of popular culture from Australia and New Zealand to showcase their work in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Presentations are welcome from any area of popular culture research. The focus of the presentation need not be exclusively Australian- or New Zealand-based, only
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Abstracts of papers, panel proposals should be submitted through the conference website:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">If you have not logged in before, you will need to create a profile to submit your abstract.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">The deadline for proposals is 1 October, 2016</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black">Any questions can be sent to Glen Thomas, Area Chair:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Dr Glen Thomas (SFHEA)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Creative Writing & Literary Studies</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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