<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><a href="http://popcaanz.com/" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;" class=""></span></a><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);" class="">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">9<sup class="">th</sup> Annual International Conference<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">2–4 July, 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Auckland University of Technology, City Campus<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Auckland, New Zealand<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (<a href="http://www.popcaanz.com/" style="color: purple;" class="">PopCAANZ</a>) is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. It is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life, as a product of consumption, an intellectual object of inquiry, and as an integral component of the dynamic forces that shape societies. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">We invite academics, professionals, cultural practitioners and those with a scholarly interest in popular culture to send a 150 word abstract and 100 word bio to the area chairs listed below by 31 March, 2018. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Biography and Life Writing</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Rachel Franks: <a href="mailto:biography@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">biography@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Business</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Vicki Karaminas: <a href="mailto:business@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">business@popcaanz.com</a><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Celebrity Studies</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Alex Bevan: <a href="mailto:celebritystudies@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">celebritystudies@popcaanz.com</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Comics, Manga and Anime</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Paul Mountfort: <a href="mailto:comics@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">comics@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Creative Writing</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Karen Simpson Nikakis: <a href="mailto:writing@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">writing@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Curating</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Heather Gailbraith: <a href="mailto:curating@popcaanz.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">curating@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Design</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Peter Gilderdale: <a href="mailto:design@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">design@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Disability</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Kimberley McMahon-Coleman: <a href="mailto:disability@popcaanz.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">disability@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Electronic Ecologies:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> Ryszard Dabek: <a href="mailto:entertainment@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">e-ecologies@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Fandom</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Katherine Larsen: <a href="mailto:fandom@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">fandom@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Fashion</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Vicki Karaminas, Justine Taylor: <a href="mailto:fashion@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">fashion@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Fiction</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Rachel Franks: <a href="mailto:fiction@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">fiction@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Film</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Daniel Binns: <a href="mailto:film@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">film@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Food</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Paul Mountfort <a href="mailto:food@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">food@popcaanz.com</a><a href="mailto:food@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class=""><br class=""></a><b class="">Gender and Queer</b>: Anita Brady: <a href="mailto:gender@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">gender@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Girlhood Studies</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Juliette Peers: <a href="mailto:girlhood@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">girlhood@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Gothic and Horror</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Lorna Piatti-Farnell: <a href="mailto:gothic@popcaanz.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">gothic@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">History</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Peter Gilderdale: <a href="mailto:history@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">history@popcaanz.com</a><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Indigenous</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Jakelin Troy: <a href="mailto:jakelin.troy@sydney.edu.au" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">jakelin.troy@sydney.edu.au</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Journalism</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Sue Green: <a href="mailto:journalism@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">journalism@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Law</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Jason Bainbridge: <a href="mailto:law@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">law@popcaanz.com</a><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Museum Studies</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Lyn Hicks: <a href="mailto:museumstudies@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">museumstudies@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Performance</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Sue Osmond: <a href="mailto:performance@popcaanz.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">performance@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Popular Romance</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Jodi McAlister: <a href="mailto:popularomance@popcaanz.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">popularomance@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Race and Whiteness Studies</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Holly Randell-Moon: <a href="mailto:raceandwhitestudies@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">raceandwhitestudies@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Radio and Audio Media</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Martin Hadlow: <a href="mailto:radio@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">radio@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Religion</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Holly Randell-Moon: <a href="mailto:religion@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">religion@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Science</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Steven Gil: <a href="mailto:science@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">science@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Spatial Arts</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Julieanna Preston: <a href="mailto:spatial@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">spatial@popcaanz.com</a><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Subcultures</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Kathryn Hardy Bernal: <a href="mailto:subcultures@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">subcultures@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Television</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Rosser Johnson: <a href="mailto:filmandtv@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">tv@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Textiles</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Vishna Collins: <a href="mailto:textiles@popcaanz.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">textiles@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Toys and Games</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Jason Bainbridge: <a href="mailto:toys@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">toys@popcaanz.com</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Visual Arts</span></b><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">: Adam Geczy: <a href="mailto:visualarts@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">visualarts@popcaanz.com</a><u class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">PopCAANZ will publish double-blind peer reviewed Conference Proceedings online following the conference, and select presenters will be invited to submit suitable articles to the Association’s official journal, <i class="">The Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture</i> (Penn State University Press). Queries about new areas should be directed to <a href="mailto:vicepresident@popcaanz.com" style="color: purple;" class="">vicepresident@popcaanz.com</a> For Conference information see <a href="http://www.popcaanz.com/" style="color: purple;" class="">www.popcaanz.com</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: none none dotted; border-bottom-width: 3pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; border: none; padding: 0cm;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></div></div></body></html>