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¡Últimas semanas para enviar tu propuesta para el II Congreso internacional Frontiers and Wastelands!

🗨️ "The Boundaries of US American Identity"
📅 Fecha límite: 15 de julio de 2024
🏢 Organiza: POPMEC e Instituto Franklin- UAH

Toda la información, a continuación ➡️ https://bit.ly/3IMIcnK

📢Friendly reminder that there is only few days left to send your proposals for our two conferences! We welcome abstract submissions until the 15th of July.

- virtual | Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture | September 6–7, 2024

- onsite | Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity | Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid, ES) | November 25-26, 2024

You can find the full call on https://www.popmec.com/

📣 We have extended the deadlines for our current calls for presentations to JULY 15, check them out!

➡️virtual conference Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture, which will be held as usual on Zoom on the days September 6–7, 2024. Full call on the website at https://www.popmec.com/noir-conference/

➡️in-person conference Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity, which will be held in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, ES) on the days November 25-26, 2024. Full call on the website at https://www.popmec.com/frontiers-2024/

The new issue of our peer-reviewed journal REDEN is out, with part 2 of the special dossier "(Super)Heroes in the 21st-Century American Imagination" (co-edited with Ma**ca Orrù) and an amazing cover image courtesy of Rafael Navarro! ⬇

https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/issue/view/193

Friendly reminder that the CFP for our in-person conference "Frontiers and Wastelands" is open until the 17th of June!
The conference will take place in Madrid on the 25th and 26th of November and in collaboration with Instituto Franklin- UAH and Universidad de Alcalá.

More information⏩https://popmec.com/frontiers-2024/

Envía tu propuesta para el II Fronteras y Páramos, bajo el título:

🗨️ "Los límites de la identidad estadounidense"
📅 Fecha límite para la presentación de propuestas: 17 de junio de 2024
🏢 Organiza: POPMEC e Instituto Franklin- UAH

Encuentra toda la información sobre el congreso aquí ➡️ https://bit.ly/3IMIcnK

Virtual Conference Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture | September 6-7, 2024

Deadline for proposals: JUNE 17
Find the full call at https://www.popmec.com/noir-conference/

📣 In-person International Conference | Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity

November 25-26, 2024 @ Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, ES) in collaboration with Instituto Franklin- UAH

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN! Deadline JUNE 17
https://www.popmec.com/frontiers-2024/

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Da comienzo el primer día del :

🗨️ "Fronteras y páramos. La redefinición de la nación en la cultura popular estadounidense"
🏢 Organiza: POPMEC e Instituto Franklin- UAH

Encuentra la mesa de registro en:

📍 Claustro del Colegio de Trinitarios, Universidad de Alcalá

The final program for our upcoming conference Frontiers and Wastelands is out!

https://www.popmec.com/frontiers-conference/

CFP📢 Don't forget to send your submission for our virtual conference "Darkness in the American Imagination"!

🗓️Deadline: 11 June.

More information: https://popmec.com/darkness-conference/

El periodo de recepción de propuestas para el continúa abierto:

🗨️ "Fronteras y páramos. La redefinición de la nación en la cultura popular estadounidense"
📅 Hasta el 30 de junio de 2023
👥Organizan: Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark, POPMEC e Instituto Franklin- UAH

Toda la información ➡️ https://bit.ly/42x2SJo

📢New post alert! Check out Lily Corwin's article "'They Shot a Western South of Here': Josh Ritter’s Imaginary West," where she delves into the reimagination of the Western imaginary in Josh Ritter's music and songwriting!

“They Shot a Western South of Here”: Josh Ritter’s Imaginary West Author: Lily Corwin Virginia Tech Download PDF version On his 2017 album Gathering, Josh Ritter took a giant step forward on a creative journey he had been on for years: using and rearranging images of the American West alongside images...

📢 Just a friendly reminder that our CFP for the conference "Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture" is open until June 30!

The conference will take place at Instituto Franklin- UAH
(Universidad de Alcalá).

Check out our website for more info: https://popmec.com/frontiers-conference/

CFP 📢 check out our ongoing calls for:

Darkness in the American Imagination | VIRTUAL conference, 4-8 September 2023 https://www.popmec.com/darkness-conference/

Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Pop Culture | IN-PERSON conference, 27-28 November 2023 https://www.popmec.com/frontiers-conference/

📢 open! Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US @ Alcalá de Henares | November 27-28, 2023

🗓️deadline for proposals: June 30

Check the call out ⬇️
https://www.popmec.com/frontiers-conference/

CFP📢We're powering the organization of the seminar Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture!
🗓️ Deadline: Feb 24

Hosted by the Center for American Studies at SDU (Odense, DK) and with the collaboration of Instituto Franklin- UAH.

Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture – PopMeC Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark (SDU)March 28, 2023 The seminar will focus on how the American imagination has shaped—and, in turn, has been shaped by—its frontiers and borderlands, marked by an intrinsic peripheral quality, sociocultural porosity, and a diverse range...

POPMEC, en colaboración con Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark e Instituto Franklin- UAH, organiza el :

🗨️ "Frontiers and wastelands redefining the nation in US popular culture"
📅 Envía tu propuesta hasta el próximo 24 de febrero

Toda la información ➡️ http://bit.ly/3HTVwHi

Our book of the month post is hot off the press! Hatice Bay dissects “Indigenerdity and STEM in Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley” where she analyses the intersections between science, indigeneity and gender. 🔬 Go check it out!

Indigenerdity and STEM in Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley Author: Hatice Bay Cappadocia University Download PDF version INTRODUCTION Popular media has a great impact on the way science, scientists, and their works are represented. Typically, STEM fields and geek culture are considered to be White and male-oriented domains. As...

📢New article alert! Check out the newest article on our academic blog! Sotiris Petridis analyses "When Mockumentary Meets Slasher Film: Comedic First-Person Narrative in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon." 📽️ Don't miss it!

When Mockumentary Meets Slasher Film: Comedic First-Person Narrative in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon Author: Sotiris Petridis Hellenic Open University Download PDF version INTRODUCTION Since cinema usually narrates its stories through the camera, the structure of a typical film is in third person. Although cinema has a third-person narrative, there are some elements that...

Our book of the month is Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half, a novel that follows the lives of the twin sisters Desiree and Stella Vignes. Don’t miss out and check out our blog post by Ma**ca Orrù!

Book of the Month: Brit Bennet’s The Vanishing Half Our book recommendation for this month is Brit Bennet’s The Vanishing Half. Through the pages of the book, we travel to Mallard (Louisiana), a small village impossible to find on the maps, with an extremely peculiar trait. In fact, Mallard’s...

📣 Our program is out and we have a call for Zoom support open to PhD/MA students who wish to collaborate (will issue certificate after the conference)
If you're interested, send an email to [email protected] attaching a document with name, affiliation, email address, and ca. 200 words bio!

Check out our latest article on PopMeC: Elizabeth Laughlin's "Red (Taylor’s Version): Swift’s Artistic Remembrance." https://popmec.hypotheses.org/4915

Red (Taylor’s Version): Swift’s Artistic Remembrance Author: Elizabeth Laughlin Indiana University of Pennsylvania Download PDF version   Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) feels like revisiting an old memory. Those who appreciated the 2012 version of Red will especially love this one, which is revised and features...

Our virtual conference Animals in the American Popular Imagination also welcomes video essays! Check the cfp out ⬇

We also welcome proposals for video essays 🎞️⬇️

They'll be featured on the conference website, but you can also discuss your video essay live! Check the updated and send us your awesome proposals! 🦊

Check out Max Tretter's recent article on PopMeC: "Land of Unlimited Possibilities—Land of Systematic Oppression. The Ambivalent Representations of America in Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne." https://popmec.hypotheses.org/4853

Land of Unlimited Possibilities—Land of Systematic Oppression. The Ambivalent Representations of America in Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne Author: Max Tretter Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg Download PDF version   INTRODUCTION Originating in the United States, rap music and the culture of hip hop are closely connected with America.[1] As hip hop’s place of origin, the US has a lasting...

Check out our latest article published with PopMeC: "The Desert and the Jungle: Los Angeles in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point and Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye" by Katerina Psilopoulou. https://popmec.hypotheses.org/4846

The Desert and the Jungle: Los Angeles in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point and Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye Author: Katerina Psilopoulou Newnham College, University of Cambridge Download PDF version   Whenever European directors attempt to capture the essence of America, the result can be either grotesque or revelatory, especially during volatile times like the counterculture movement of the...

Today we share our latest by Fe Lorraine Reyes: "George Orwell and the Modern Political Dystopia." https://popmec.hypotheses.org/4861

George Orwell and the Modern Political Dystopia Download PDF version   In popular culture, the term ‘Orwellian’ has come to be known as that which describes instances of the dystopic milieu in George Orwell’s final novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This seminal text, which presents a vision of a...