This is the February MAPACA Newsletter.
In This Newsletter, We Have:
- MAPACA 2024 Summer Virtual Symposium Call for Proposals
- 2023 Ralph Donald Award and Daniel Walden Prize Winners
- MAPACA 2024 In-person Conference Reminders
MAPACA 2024 Summer Virtual Symposium Call for Proposals
Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) Summer Virtual Symposium, to be held on Sunday, August 4, 2024. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome. The online event is open internationally and we especially invite anyone unable to attend our in-person conference in November. Presenters are welcome to submit separate proposals for both this Summer Virtual Symposium and our in-person conference in November.
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 summer.mapaca.net/areas. General questions can be directed to mapaca@mapaca.net. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2024.
MAPACA’s participants are 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, about our Summer Symposium and to submit a proposal, please visit summer.mapaca.net. For more information about our in-person November conference, please visit mapaca.net.
2023 Ralph Donald Award and Daniel Walden Prize Winners
Congratulations to the winners of our 2023 conference awards, The Ralph Donald Award and the Daniel Walden Prize. Winners will have their papers published in Response, our online journal of popular and American culture.
The Ralph Donald Award winner is Jessica Hautsch for the paper “Casting the Self into Fictional Worlds through Online Personality Quizzes.”
The winner of the Daniel Walden Prize for graduate students is David Frank for the paper “In-Between Seoul and Springfield: Korean Animation and The Simpsons.”
The Ralph Donald Award recognizes an outstanding paper and presentation delivered at MAPACA’s annual conference. This award is named in honor of Ralph Donald. Award recipients receive recognition and complimentary registration to the following year’s conference.
The Walden Prize for Graduate and Undergraduate Papers is awarded annually to outstanding emerging scholars in popular culture studies.
Congratulations to all our nominees for their outstanding presentations at our conference!
MAPACA 2024 In-person Conference Reminders
MAPACA 2024 will be held November 7-9 at the Tropicana Casino & Resort in Atlantic City, NJ. More details will follow in the coming months.
We are excited to return to the Tropicana again! See you there!
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA)
P.O. Box 1358
Lansdowne, PA 19050
To donate, please visit https://mapaca.net/donation