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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Abstracts are invited for the <b>Queer and Gender Area
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<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:" lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:" lang="EN-US">10<sup>th</sup> Anniversary International Conference</span></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:" lang="EN-US">RMIT University</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:" lang="EN-US">The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.popcaanz.com/" id="LPlnk94746" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:">PopCAANZ</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:" lang="EN-US">),
in association with RMIT University, is marking a decade (2010-2019) devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. The Association 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.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:" lang="EN-US">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 </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:abstracts@popcaanz.com" id="LPlnk736425" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:">abstracts@popcaanz.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:" lang="EN-US">
by <span style="color:#ED7D31">31 March, 2019</span>. </span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">Biography and Life Writing</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">: Rachel Franks
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">Business</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">: Sky Marsen</span><span class="x_MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">Comics, Manga and Anime</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">: Paul Mountfort</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">Creative Writing</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">: Paul Mountfort
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">Curating</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">: Heather Gailbraith</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">Design</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">: Catherine Caudwell
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">Gender and Queer</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">: Anita Brady
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">Performance</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">: Sue Osmond
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">Popular Romance</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:" lang="EN-NZ">: Jodi McAlister
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:" lang="EN-US">PopCAANZ will publish double-blind peer reviewed Conference Proceedings online following the conference, and presenters will be invited to submit suitable articles to the Association’s official journal,
<i>The Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture</i> (Penn State University Press). Queries about new areas should be directed to
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